Career

I remember sitting on my floor, surrounded by half-packed moving boxes and a laptop that felt like it weighed a hundred pounds, staring at a […]

Can we please stop pretending that “continuous professional development” has to mean dropping three months’ rent on a fancy, high-pressure certification bootcamp or sitting through […]

Can we please stop pretending that buying a $40 designer planner is going to magically fix your life? I used to think that if I […]

Can we please stop pretending that “professional development” requires a $500 certification or a three-day seminar in a windowless hotel ballroom? Honestly, most of the […]

I used to think that “navigating office politics in large corporations” required some sort of secret, Machiavellian handbook or a PhD in psychological warfare. I […]

Can we please stop pretending that “effective remote work management” requires a $50-a-month subscription to some hyper-complex project management tool that takes three weeks just […]

I still remember sitting in my first “real” office job, staring at my bank account after paying rent and realizing I was essentially working for […]

I still remember sitting on my floor in that tiny studio apartment, staring at my reflection in a cracked mirror and wondering why I felt […]

I used to spend hours staring at a blinking cursor, convinced that if I just found the perfect, most “professional” way to say I’m good […]

I used to think that figuring out how to build a portfolio required a fancy custom website, a paid subscription to a design platform, and […]