Given the strong reactions surrounding Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent article, I thought I would share a different perspective. Below is a letter to my mother, a woman who worked a full-time job throughout my childhood: Dear Mom,   For those times when you couldn’t make my games,...

“My hobby (one of them anyway)…is using a lot of scotch tape… My hobby is to pick out different things during what I read and piece them together and make a little story of my own.”  - Louis Armstrong  Whenever I sit down to write, I am struck with the fear that ideas I’m about...

This morning, my taxi driver lamented over his job. “I HATE THIS JOB. I hate it! I really hate this job.” He then projected his misery on to me, “You’ll see, you’ll hate your job soon too,” and escalated, “48 million out of work. No jobs...

1. There is no clearly defined pathway. Sometimes your career will go sideways. You’ll work in industries that have no direct correlation to each other, and learn immensely from each of them (with jobs in interior design and international trade in the same year.) When you move to the...

Conforming to a corporate culture is often an integral part of successful career growth. As workers and contributors to a business, we have to speak the language and innately know a company, in order to achieve both personal and professional goals. Yet, how much of our creative and true selves...