By Carlee Mallard, on March 5th, 2011% I quit my job at RTI International. My last day was Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011.
I’ve already received many congratulations, which is exactly the response I was expecting to get. I’ve also received lots of questions like, “What’s your plan?” or “Do you have another job or interviews lined up?”
My “plan” really started a year ago and because RTI wasn’t part of my plan to achieve my goals, quitting was simply imminent.
No job lined up. So what is my plan now? I’m looking for the next big thing that will bring me closer to my goal of . . . → Read More: I quit my job.
By Carlee Mallard, on December 15th, 2010% Disclaimer: I probably say a lot of things I’m not “supposed to” say in the words that follow. Well, screw the rules.
I think it’s about time I get really clear about my job situation.
I can’t take it much longer. I’ve been there for 2 and a half years. I’ve changed so dramatically over the past two and a half years and my job has changed this much: not at all. So I was happy there at first. I took copious notes. I pitched in as much as I could. I read everything I could get my hands . . . → Read More: A Wise Decision, Things My Life Doesn’t Need & Appreciation
By Carlee Mallard, on December 8th, 2010% #reverb10 December 7th prompt: Community.
Community has been such a significant keyword in my life throughout 2010 that I had to mindmap everything I could think of relating to community in my life this past year (hence the image to the left). Yea, a lot, right?
First of all, to answer the first part of today’s #reverb10 prompt, “Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010?” Believe it or not, online communities often help formulate IRL relationships. I know, hard to believe that having profound, intelligent, and sometimes emotional conversations in an online community could move you . . . → Read More: Recognizing Essential Communities
By Carlee Mallard, on November 9th, 2010% Brazen Careerists’ newest product, Network Roulette officially launches today and you should be really excited about it (I am)! We all know that networking is important. Some of us may be better at networking than others, but Brazen has pretty much taken most of the hassle out of traditional networking by putting it all online.
What is Network Roulette?
Network Roulette is online speed networking that’s actually useful. It’s simple – first, you’re randomly matched with other professionals after answering two simple questions: “What are you looking for?” and “What are you providing?” Next, participants have up to 3 . . . → Read More: Network Roulette: Easy Networking Whenever & Wherever You Want
By Carlee Mallard, on November 2nd, 2010% Happy birthday to me.
No more early 20’s for me. Today I’m 25 years old. They say that my brain should be fully developed by now – that I should be the person I’m likely going to be for the rest of my life.
I finally know who I am, what I’m not, what I value and what I don’t, who matters & who doesn’t, and what work I’m passionate about. Of course none of this happened overnight. I didn’t just turn 25 and everything became clear. No, but I do think that a lot of this discovery took . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday to Me! (and my blog)
By Carlee Mallard, on September 13th, 2010% Two months ago I got an email from Ryan Paugh of Brazen Careerist asking me & some other fellow rockstar “Brazenites” (as you’ll see I coined) to share the #1 thing we’ve learned about career success in a 30 second video. As flattered as I was to be solicited to give career advice, which may have actually been a first, I pretty much blew off the entire idea of it as soon as reading the email because:
a) What on earth would I have to contribute that someone else wouldn’t already say?
b) There’s really a million things to . . . → Read More: Forays Into Multimedia (And Ensuing Frustration)
By Carlee Mallard, on August 29th, 2010% And by that I mean literally, my fresh-out-of-college unemployed little sister, Rianna. She’s probably the
best person that I know, and I’m probably the best sister that anyone could have. Which is why I’m dedicating an entire post to her today.
I’m not sure exactly when she decided she had to move to New York City after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill with an Anthropology degree this past May, but I’m pretty sure her mind was made up when we visited the city during her Spring Break back in March. While I was walking around complaining about my blisters, . . . → Read More: HASO (Help A Sister Out)!
By Carlee Mallard, on August 23rd, 2010% Am I wrong to scoff at those unemployed citizens who keep applying for job after job like everyone else out there? I can’t help but think that if you’re not thinking like an entrepreneur and creating a job for yourself instead of waiting until someone creates a job for you, you’re just not living in the now.
There aren’t a heck of a lot of jobs out there. And when a job opens up, a million people are going after it. The fact of the matter is that unless you’re some big wig superstar or have been dating the . . . → Read More: To the unemployed whiners: make your own job!
By Carlee Mallard, on August 20th, 2010% On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 I organized a local chapter of the
Brazenites at the first official meetup
Brazen Careerist’s “Crowdsource Your Career” meetup where 8 other fellow brazen careerists and I met – some for the first time, although many were very familiar faces—to talk about why we were drawn to Brazen Careerist and to discuss the question of the day (below). It was certainly a success (if I ignore the loud after-work crowd at nearby tables). I both met some new people (with new perspectives) and made even stronger connections with some Brazenites that I had . . . → Read More: Triangles Crowdsource Our Careers (Brazen Style)
By Carlee Mallard, on May 3rd, 2010% Today marks the official first day of my new career. It’s taken nearly a year to get here after a lot of doubt and uncertainty, but also so much motivation and drive.
You see, a year ago (and for the past year), I was unhappy in my job. In fact I was unhappy in my job even before I really knew it and certainly before I told myself that I needed to start looking for something else. Just 3 months into my new full-time job I wrote in my personal journal:
“I feel unstimulated because my job is not . . . → Read More: Finally, The First Day Of My New Career
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