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 March 22nd, 2010% It’s so easy to complain to your family and close friends. Often its too easy to complain. We know that no matter what we say or how annoying we are, they will still be there for us. When we whine about work or our relationships our friends are usually there to be a sounding board, listen and agree with us about how much life sucks.
Too much of a good thing can be bad though. Our automatic thoughts become: complain, whine, negativity – hoping that our friends will make us feel better.
This is where Twitter comes into play. . . . → Read More: Twitter Made Me More Positive
By Carlee Mallard, on March 9th, 2010% I’ve had some time now to digest all of the great ideas presented to me by the TEDx speakers on Saturday. While some really jumped out at me immediately (some might say they “spoke to me”), others have taken far more reflection and conversation with others who had a more immediate reaction to the speakers. I would say as a whole the entire day-long program of speakers was fantastic. The thought of 8-hours worth of sitting and listening to strangers talk was a little ominous. When 6pm arrived though, I felt like the past 8 hours flew by faster . . . → Read More: Selected Thoughts on TEDxRTP [Part 1]
By Carlee Mallard, on January 21st, 2010% I’ve been meeting a lot of new people recently. Online. At parties. At networking events. On planes. Friends introduce me to their friends. Let’s not forget it’s high school reunion time, so: reconnecting with people I haven’t talked to since high school (and that’s like meeting a whole new person!).
There’s a lot of people to introduce myself to. No matter what setting you meet someone in, you know the one question that will always come up is, “What do you do (for a living)?” And that’s when I start wondering what I should tell them about myself.
For . . . → Read More: I’m A Human Being, Not A Human Doing
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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