Yesterday I was wandering where I was not supposed to be. In Henri Bendel. No longer shopping for sport I have found the easiest way to keep temptation at bay is to stay out of the stores completely in much the way a heavy smoker goes cold turkey to get things under control. But I […]
A Real Job
I don’t know how many times in these last months I have been asked if I was going to get a job, a real job that is. I am struck by a few things. The first is using the adjective ‘real’ before ‘job’. Apparently in some dictionaries writing is not considered to be one. A […]
World Wide Rave
One of the really great things about my life now is that I have time to learn. Not that I wasn’t learning new things when I was caught up in 9 to 5 but it was a lot harder then, especially when you are on the sales end. Revenue producers, particularly in the current economic […]
A Little Lipstick Can Turn It All Around
Sometimes when you are outside of the corporate conference room, it is easier to see how foolish the decisions made inside of it can be. Take NBC. First the network says it will cancel Lipstick Jungle and then they follow that up with announcing five nights of Jay Leno in prime time. Five nights […]
What I Miss About Corporate Life
When people ask me if I miss corporate life at all, my answer, without pause, is no. With the exception of a handful of close friends I worked with daily and the paycheck every two weeks I don’t miss much. But today I did. I was working on my blog. Not writing a new […]
Pink…. For New Beginnings
The stats are out and apparently another 524,000 joined the ranks of the downsized in December. The word is that the numbers of those who have received pink slips this year has swelled to a sixteen year high. Ouch! Apparently I am not alone on my reinvention journey. It got me to thinking, why pink? […]
