This year, I started fresh off a much needed vacation. Once I touched down back in the states, my inbox was flood and two messages caught my eye. One was from a personal trainer who told me that a “friend” gifted me a training session. Yeah, I didn’t know whether or not to be offended. Next was a note from my cousin, who decided to start a Biggest Loser club. Now, if you’ve ever seen me you know I’m not a little woman. I stand 6’1″ and I’m not a size 8. I took these to mean that the “universe” was trying to tell me something. I’m a former athlete who knows better when it comes to health, exercise and eating but I haven’t been able to carve out the time…
Now here is where things take a turn.
This unfinished post was sitting as a draft for over three months which means if I couldn’t even get a post about my (so be it, temporary) enthusiasm for fitness published…I wasn’t doing it in real life.
Oh as for that Biggest Loser challenge, all but one of the group members quit (before even starting).
I say all that to say…when I get back to NYC (I’m on vacation…again) I’m going to buy this peddle master.
Recently I was introduced to a young journalist, who naturally asked the quintessential networking question: Do you have a business card?
For many years I was on the opposite end of that question, asking anyone whom I felt was in a position I wanted to be, or had the power to plug me in, for their card. If I was fortunate they would dig in their purse or wallet and pull out a card.
Before everyone carried a cell phone or had their own website, Twitter, Facebook, business cards were the key.
I’ve had a business card for every position I’ve held. Now, I don’t have a card nor do I want one. For starters, what would I list on the card? In today’s world, no one has only one job. There is the 9-5, the 6-10, the side hustle and the “I do this because I love it but it doesn’t pay and I don’t care” project. How exactly do you fit that all on one card? Read more »
While plowing through the 10,016 unread e-mails in my inbox, I stumbled across an message from a media company that I applied to months back.
By government standards, I am unemployed. However, as a journalist I’m allowed to exercise creative license and say that I am an independent contractor or (my favorite) “an entrepreneur”.
In addition to keeping the hustle alive, I still surf the internet for work.
New recession rule of thumb, if you don’t hear from a job within 6 weeks of applying it’s just understood that the job probably isn’t going to be yours. You’d think that technology would make it easier for them to send a rejection letter but due to the high volume of applicant most places aren’t even doing that courtesy anymore.
Funny, there was once a time if you didn’t hear back in two weeks, you’d impatiently call to ask what’s up. There was also a time when people sent hand written “Thank You” cards. Ahhh memories…
Back to the e-mail.
I was prepared for a “So sorry, you’re great but NO” message. What I read instead pissed me off: Read more »
