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Five words that woke me up.
“There are no jobs here” is reverberating through my head. Those five words are killing me slowly. Now, to be clear, this is something I heard in my dream last night. Whether or not it’s true, I don’t know. And the fact that I’m dreaming about work-related stuff is kind of creeping me out, but I digress. I woke up...
The “Adjustment Period” (it’s a doozy)
Working 9-5 (okay, 8:30-5:30) is pretty awesome. My evenings are free and I am faced with a lot of time to do what I like to do, or nothing at all. It’s luxurious, really. The hardest part about the transition so far? Waiting for a paycheck. I miss bartending. Not the politics involved, not the actual act of pouring a...
How to be Brazen and relocate.
It seems like I’ve been at this blogging game for awhile now. In all reality – I’m still very much a newbie. Regardless, I’ve managed to use blogging and the Brazen Careerist community to get to where I am sitting during the majority of my daylight hours: my intern desk at Weber Shandwick’s Chicago office. There are some very powerful...
Finding a balance.
After a conference call last night about our plans for SXSW 2010, Ryan Paugh, Nisha Chittal, Elysa Rice, Ben Smithee and I were talking about how we’ve all used social media to get to where we are today. Ryan posed an interesting question, “okay, so social media helped you get the job, but now what?” Ryan asked a question that...
What is Sydney’s deal?
I’m sitting on “my chair” at my parents house for the last time before I move to Chicago. Not the last time ever, just the last time. You’ll notice that I’ve added a bunch of password protected posts on here. I know my family reads my stuff, so I know that if I write to them here, it will get...
