During the hiring process, it’s dangerously easy to get caught up in proving that you’re the right person for the job, rather than assessing whether the job is truly an ideal fit for you. However, when it comes to being happy with your job in the long run, making sure that the company values work-life…
It was the summer of 2012 when I drove away from my college campus for the last time. I recall the sense of endlessly expanding opportunity that swelled in my chest as I looked out over the bay. I thought about how far I had come in just a few years—so far from where I…
If I were to let the book of my personal history fall open to the final days of 2008, you would likely find me seated at an upright piano in a closet-sized practice room deep inside of Berklee College of Music, poring over sheet music late into the night. Or, quite possibly, I was perched…
In many work environments, being an introvert is similar to being left-handed: Though we represent a sizable portion of the population, the world simply wasn’t built for us. However, thanks to speakers like Susan Cain and her Quiet Revolution, our society is beginning to realize its bias toward extroverts—and its desperate need for the gifts…
I was twenty-three when I found my way back to the career that I was destined for—or rather, when it found me. — When I was five, I wanted to be a part-time writer, illustrator, and paleontologist—and possibly the first female president. When I was seven, I dog-eared the pages of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s “How I Came…
“What do you do?” It’s the first question that we ask after learning someone’s name. In modern American society, we’re defined by the job titles bestowed upon us. We spend our weekdays toiling in the pursuit of promotions and raises, and our jobs bleed into our free time in the form of late-night emails, insomnia, and Sunday night…
