Really, I was afraid of making the wrong decision. At the age of 43, I didn’t want to start down a road, using up precious time and money, and then realizing it was a road I didn’t want to be on after all.

by Mary Wyatt of Unmitigated

The first time I ever had an office job I was 19 years old. The last time I ever had an office job, I was 26 years old. If I …

My manager is nothing if not empathetic, sympathetic and a master of making one feel “heard.”  And well she should be, given her profession.  I find her easy to talk to, sorta like a friend, …

I actually think I’m going to go into that 9:30 am meeting with my manager and pull the plug.  If I do, I will surely detail all.  If not…

…it is very weird, I’d say.  I feel like I’m in a dream and I’ve waked up and it’s real.  Not that the situation is so dreamy.  But that…let me start at the beginning:
Not quite …

Yes, actually, really, someone spoke those words to me.  Evidentally my deer-in-the-headlights in that interview was…endearing?  Or not so totally off-putting.  Or something.  I start in two weeks.  I am trying not to panic.  (Breathe, …

I got my pro forma turndown from Stanford House.  “Dear Candidate….blah, blah, blah, blah…”   I’m now trying to decide if I should be mature and just forget the whole thing, or give in to my …

…there isn’t any.  I figured both, but especially the last, couldn’t work quickly enough to scrape me off their plates, metaphorically.  But perhaps I’m being presumptuous to assume that they fully follow a formal HR …

I had today the two worst job interviews of my long, heretofore somewhat successful life.  Not two of the.  But the worst.   I don’t know if I can even go into what made them so …

I’m interviewing for jobs. At last. I have been going crazy with inactivity over the past months (actually, over the past years, if the truth be known). This has resulted in much …