Updated January 31, 2023 I’ve always been a hobby person. Maybe you are too. I’ve always had something stewing, been learning a new thing. To be honest, it makes me really happy. Hobbies often end up sucking a lot of our money, whether we’re dropping
I’ve been working from coffee shops more or less full-time for the last 10 years. I suppose you could say I’ve been doing remote work longer than most. So in this post, I want to give you some of the things I’ve learned about myself
Have you ever dreamed of being a freelance writer? Do you imagine sitting in a Parisian cafe, or heck, even at home in your pajamas and getting paid to write? Freelance writing is still big business, and so far the robots haven’t been able to
February 3, 2023 So you come to the end of a college degree. Congratulations! College is a really important part of life. But the great news is that now you get to start your next chapter! After I finished college, I stumbled through my twenties,
When I was in high school, I was best at history and English. An old pamphlet from the messy drawer in the guidance counselor’s office said that meant I had to be a teacher. So off I went for a 4-year degree in the humanities
Sometimes, you just need a job. The money is running out, the debt is piling up, and it’s time to have some income. Maybe you don’t have months until the end of your cash flow. Maybe you only have weeks. Maybe the end is in
Updated Jan. 11, 2023 We all know that skills are valued differently in the marketplace. There’s constant flux in which skills are in the highest demand, meaning that they become outdated every 5 years. But the good news is that you can learn and sharpen
I first met Lindy Ledohowski, PhD for lunch at an Ottawa Bier Markt in Fall of 2019. I’d recently started blogging about leaving academia, and we connected on LinkedIn. I was still working for the government in a glass tower somewhere downtown, puzzling over the
Updated Jan. 11, 2023 There’s a truth universally unacknowledged — that some of the people with the most marketable skills have no idea that they have those skills. And if we know we have them, we probably don’t know what they’re worth. Let me tell
Updated January 25, 2023 I would estimate that like 5% of people are using LinkedIn to its full potential. Honestly, with millions of jobs, employers, and opportunities, you’d think we’d pay more attention to it. You might be a job seeker looking for your next
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