There’s a dirty little secret no one wants to tell you. Here it is. Good economy or bad economy, job security is a myth. Even when the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report comes out and the numbers look good, all it takes is one new person in charge of your group or one management consultant […]
The Days After – Day 16
The days after I left the building for the last time were not easy. Anyone who tells you they are is lying. Big time.For me they were filled with uncertainty about what was next. I knew what I wasn’t going to do. I wasn’t going to look for another job like the one I had. […]
The Day I Left The Building For The Last Time
There are moments in your life that no matter how long ago they’re behind you, the memory is always fresh, the details vivid. That’s how it is when I think of the day I was told that my job was being eliminated. I knew something was different before I walked into the lobby of the […]
Three Ways Technology Helped Me To Say Goodbye To Corporate Life For Good – Day 14
I owe a lot to digital technology. In fact, I’m pretty convinced that if not for the advances of the last five years I would probably be sitting in a glass-walled office someplace rather than at my desk in my living room.Looking back, these are what I see as the top three reasons technology has […]
The Numbers Obsession – Day 13
I told myself when I started this experiment that it was for me first. That I wasn’t writing any of these posts with my readers in mind. Whatever I was inspired to write, I would write.But then I caught myself the other day checking my Google Analytics. Trying to make some sense out of which […]
My Greatest Fear – Day 12
There are a lot of things to be fearful about in the course of a day living in New York City. My list includes things like like tripping and falling into the subway tracks and walking under scaffolding and having it collapse on top of me. A former colleague used to refuse to walk under […]
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