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 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 December 6th, 2010% Letting go of people and things that are second-nature in your every day life or that once carried
significant meaning to you is difficult. While I let go of a lot of a lot this year—an old boyfriend who got engaged early this year, the home I grew up in, and a lot of my “stuff that had accumulated over the years—one thing stands out the most in having  contributed to my subsequent growth and maturity more than anything else.
Drama. I sort of hate that word though because people are always saying, “I’m drama-free” or “I don’t need any drama . . . → Read More: Let Go
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 May 11th, 2010% Would I keep using social media and networking sites if I weren’t ever looking for a new job or clients? Already certain industries are more prominent on LinkedIn and Twitter (marketing, public relations, news sources, internet startups, consultants, freelancers, etc.) and more jobseekers than steady-job-havers keep active social networking profiles.
But at this stage in the game I just can’t see ever not using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Brazen Careerist, but believe it or not there was once a time when I barely used them (two of which I didn’t even adopt until 2009). Whoa was I behind the . . . → Read More: On Justifying Social-Networking (Or Why I Might Abandon Social Media)
By Carlee Mallard, on April 2nd, 2010% Everyone else is saying it, so I will too. Thank God For Spring Weather!!!!!
Now let’s jump right into reviewing my goals for March: Finish perfecting the killer resume. Honest to god, I have a rough-draft, but wow some things just take a lot more time than you imagined. I’m carrying this one over to April . Finish the new blog redesign. You might not notice a huge difference from last month, but there was a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff going on. The only part I’m still trying to work out is the Photography page. Hrmmm. There seems to . . . → Read More: April Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on March 2nd, 2010% February surprised me in a lot of ways. When I wrote my goals for February I thought that I had it all planned out. But then mid-month some new opportunities arose, events popped up, connections were made, priorities changed.
Cyn Mallard's New Paintings
I know that’s all very vague, but my point is that if you can’t go with the flow, you might just miss out on some really great stuff. For example, you might notice that I have a brand new WordPress website with my own domain! When my aunt offered (read: really pressured me) to host . . . → Read More: March Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on February 9th, 2010% I learned something about goal-making and goal-keeping this month. People don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions because they aren’t items that you can easily check off your list. They are too broad and too ambitious. Making long-term goals still have their place, but they don’t belong on a monthly goal list.
Therefore, I’m scratching January’s goals for now and starting fresh with February. This doesn’t mean that my January goals don’t apply anymore or that I’m going to forget about them, but I’m just going to move them to some storage area in my head where I can check . . . → Read More: February 2010 Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on January 7th, 2010% I did much better in November with 3 weeks than in December with 4 weeks. December is one of those months that just falls into a black hole. Family comes in to town and somehow you’re mind is warped into believing that a regular routine and goals are so passĂ©. Let’s give the review a whirl anyways:
1. Do all the “easy” stuff that I just never seem to make time for. Finally got my car checked out. Made a dentist appointment, went to original appointment, and knocked out 3 additional appointments all before December 29th (although these . . . → Read More: January 2010 Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on December 3rd, 2009% Oh yes, I definitely made those scrumptious looking cheese & ham puffs, and that was one of my goals for November! Now on to a recap of my November goals with my new December goals to follow:
1. Get out all of my holiday cards before Thanksgiving. They were all in the mail the day before Thanksgiving, but honestly I would have been really disappointed in myself if I didn’t make this happen considering I’m in the business of marketing and urged all of my clients to get their own holiday cards out early this year, too!
2. Create . . . → Read More: December Monthly Goal Meetup
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