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 October 19th, 2010% The following post comes from Rianna Mallard’s new blog called “Little Duck, Big City”, which you can find here (update: which you should click through to read the job offer she received in the comments on October 25th – if you love the power of the internet it will blow your mind!). Continuing with the story of my sister’s journey from Raleigh, NC to NYC to find a job, I give you Rianna’s personal perspective on this day in history: October 19, 2010.
I’m in the middle of something amazing right now. If you asked me a few months ago if . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Creating a Carrot Kind of World
By Carlee Mallard, on October 14th, 2010% Background…
If you follow my blog you probably know that my true and dearest sister, Rianna, moved to NYC without a job or a place to live (only a one-way plane ticket) at the end of August.
Wanting to help her succeed and really not knowing how, I did what I thought best: I dedicated a blog post to her telling all of the internet how amazingly talented she is and that everyone should befriend her.
The outpouring of niceness from New York residents surprised both of us. Yes, people all over New York actually invited her to meetups, . . . → Read More: How This Blog Got My Sister A Job
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 April 20th, 2010% With all this talk about the legality of unpaid internships, I started wondering where unpaid work (not specified as an internship) would fall in this argument. Where do you draw the line between doing work for free and for a fee?
Otherwise You Have to Pay Someone Else
Perhaps we draw the line between work that benefits us as individuals directly as opposed to benefiting another person. For example, most of us clean our homes, cook our own food, plant gardens, write our own resumes, do our taxes (arguably beneficial), raise our own children, and paint our own toes; . . . → Read More: 3 Reasons To Work For Free
By Carlee Mallard, on March 26th, 2010% Ian Shapira recently blogged on the Washington Post asking “Are Millenials Lazy?” Ian recapped the story of young medical residents who no longer work the 120-hour work weeks that the older doctor’s worked when they were training and that older generations are accusing Millenials of “devoting less of their energy to work.”
My response to that is this: why must our generation devote our lives to extreme working hours to be considered productive & hard-working citizens contributing to society? Why is our valuing of work and life balance translated into “lazy” by older generations?
Japan has the highest . . . → Read More: Millenials Aren’t Lazy: They’re Pioneers
By Carlee Mallard, on February 26th, 2010% A young woman in college raised a topic of much debate on NPR this afternoon. She explained that her advisor told her she needed to take down all her pictures on Facebook that she wouldn’t want an employer to see. She then complained about how she really didn’t want to delete them. The consensus on the show seemed to be that no, you don’t have to delete all your pictures, but employers don’t have to hire you either.
Why are we still talking about whether potential employers are going to Google you or check out your Facebook profile? Why . . . → Read More: Thanks For The Advice, But I’m Not Deleting Any Facebook Photos
By Carlee Mallard, on February 3rd, 2010% There’s something I need to get off my chest because I’m not sure what or how to think about it. The issue is weeding out potential employees in not-so-nice ways. Example:
You are hiring 60 temporary employees for an upcoming project. The staffing agency recruits and hires a little more than that (we’ll say 70) just in case some people don’t accept the position or quit in the middle of the project. Then the training sessions are scheduled. New employees are informed that if they want this job, they will need to come to an 8-hour training session on . . . → Read More: Employers & Applicants: Both Sides
By Carlee Mallard, on January 15th, 2010% One of my best friends just got his dream job as the Program Assistant for Communications and New Media at the Morehead Foundation, working back on the same college campus where he spent his undergrad years writing for The Daily Tar Heel as if it were his full-time job. He really is perfect for the position and he’s incredibly happy being back in an academic atmosphere. As happy as he is though, he’s incredibly modest and one of those do-gooder givers more so than a receiver.
For nearly two years prior to this dream job he was working at . . . → Read More: Getting Your Dream Job… And Taking A Job Away
By Carlee Mallard, on November 3rd, 2009% I was fired today. “Thanks, again, to everyone for your past service in this capacity.”
Let me start from the beginning. I’ve been working at this job for almost a year and a half now. Everyone has always stressed how important being involved in multiple ways has been: join a committee, go to events outside of work hours, say hi in the hallway, take as many classes as you can, ask to work on new projects, etc. A few months ago I decided to get more involved with the Social Committee at work that budgets, plans, and organizes the . . . → Read More: Is management censoring you?
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