Career and Kids

January 31st, 2008

National Wear Red Day

Heart disease is the number one killer of women, one in four women die from it each year. And, often women with heart disease are misdiagnosed, or, not treated at all.
Celebrate the kick-off to American Heart Month with National Wear Red Day and The Heart Truth, on February 1st, 2008 (tomorrow!) a day when Americans […]

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January 31st, 2008

Super Bowl Party recipes

I’m at work, and, I’m hungry, so food is on my mind.
According to the stats here, you really like ideas for potluck recipes.
Though I’ve never understood why it’s on a Sunday night, the Super Bowl, the biggest event in American Professional Football is this weekend.
I also consider it the official ending of Appetizer Season […]

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January 30th, 2008

Assessing a company’s work-life balance culture in an interview

When we were training for that all important interview experience in college, we were given all kinds of hints: prepare an answer to the question, “What is your weakness?” and turn it around to look like a strength, be on time, don’t fidget, and, don’t be the first to bring up salary, give a “range” […]

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January 29th, 2008

Working Parent Blogs

A peek at the Working Parent-o-Sphere:
- Amy at Work It: A Blog for Moms doesn’t want to scare her boss who is newly back to work from maternity leave.
- Job benefits are on Cindy Krischer Goodman’s mind at The Miami Herald’s The Work/Life Balancing Act.
- Karyn McCormack praises telecommuting in her first post at BusinessWeek’s […]

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January 28th, 2008

Zen Habits Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive

I know some of you dear readers work from home.
Zen Habits (love that site) has a great list of Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home that you might find handy.
Even if you work in an office or other setting, some of these tips are useful, too.
For example, […]

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January 27th, 2008

Sometimes it’s hard to settle down at work

My friend Chana logs her busy Saturday at work:
Things to do at work on Saturday
* Set up desk and get ready for business for the day
* Check messages and emails
* Get a drink
* Check emails
* […]

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January 25th, 2008

Bad day at work?

In honor of everyone who’s ever had “one of those days” at the office:

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January 24th, 2008

Getting it “all done”

Mercury’s not even in retrograde, but, it seems like working parents around the Internet are stressed out lately.
Carmen, at Mom to the Screaming Masses is a working mother of 6, and, she’s having one of those moments where we realize that between work and home, we’re never going to “get it all done”.
I can so […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Did you get your work-life balance views from your parents?

Even though my dad later admitted that he had no idea I would work after I had kids (not sure how he thought I was going to pull that off), he definitely influenced my thoughts and attitudes about work-life balance.
He’s a Marine, so he puts energy and efficiency into everything he does. He worked 6 […]

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January 22nd, 2008

Unusual work excuses

The beauty of being a parent is that you don’t have to put a lot of energy into thinking of how to call in to work, since, there’s just not that many different ways to say “sick child”.
I used to be in management, and, I’ve pretty much heard that and all the excuses for missing […]

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