Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged committing to work, expectation setting, work/life, working moms on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a chance to have dinner with an old friend the other night. Once we got through the stories about how cute our kids are and the stories about what our mutual friends are now doing, we started comparing notes on the whole part-time working mom thing.
We both love working part time and really value the time [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, tagged childcare, committing to work, guilt, Parenting Wisdom, sick kids, work/life, working moms on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been working part time since the monkeys were born. When I first went back to work it was two days a week and over the last two years it’s slowly inched up to four days a week. That actually seems like the right amount for me to be able to feel somewhat successful in my career [...]
Posted in Career Satisfaction, Managing Talent, tagged career planning, committing to work, Millenials, work/life on January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I read Marci Alboher’s Shifting Careers blog in the New York Times on Saturday, and have been thinking about her Friday post it all weekend.
She pointed to Marc Andreessen’s posts about creating a successful career. He makes some interesting points in the entries. I especially like what he has to say about making sure that you expose [...]
Posted in The Practice of Life, tagged Parenting Wisdom, committing to work, yoga, resolutions on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
A funny thing about being a parent is that once you are one, you are one. There’s nothing (barring the insane and/or criminal) that you can do to not be a parent. You can, of course, choose to be a completely uninvolved parent, but still, there it is, your progeny roams the planet.
I sort of [...]
