From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Conan’s firing highlights iniquitous U.S. hiring practices

January 22, 2010

And the question is: Who should really be fired?
OK. So the man is getting $33-million dollars and sure, that’s something.
Good for him. His future might be up in the air, just like the George Clooney (movie) laid-offs. But at least he has the means to plant his feet back on the ground. (See back [...]

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What about when you ARE your job?

January 14, 2010

AT SF Moma yesterday, on the Fourth Floor, listening to museum curator Gary Garrels tell us about the art in the Focus on Artists exhibition. He mentions that at some point, he returned to SF MOMA (from where, I don’t know, and the back story is not of consequence to where my thinking went — [...]

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No-diet weight loss: Three simple steps to success

January 12, 2010

How to eat exactly what you want, never diet again, lose weight, and be slim, sensual and happy with yourself.
A couple of days before the New Year, I’m staying with a South African couple in Sonoma. “I had a terrible night. Felt ghastly. Couldn’t sleep. And my numbers are right out of the box.”
My [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 4

January 10, 2010

Continued from Part 3 of When resigning is harder than getting the boot.
Baskas is well aware there are a lot of people working jobs they hate — and that common for people to be have their identity so invested in their job that they stay there.
“I know some people don’t have choice. But many, [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 3

January 10, 2010

Continued from Part 2 of When resigning is harder than getting the boot.
Shifting gears — and the Big Question plus the answer that directed her new career.
“After I finished the one big deadline project I had when I left the radio station, I sat down and thought: ‘If I didn’t have to work, what [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 2

January 9, 2010

Continued from Part 1 of When Resigning is harder than getting the boot.
Baskas says it took her a year to leave. “It was hard,” she remembers.
Looking back, she says she can see that she was afraid to walk away.
What nagged her was: “If I don’t have that structure, the title and the authority, then [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 1

January 8, 2010

Choosing to leave your job can be tough when it’s who you are and not simply what you do.

I met Seattle–based journalist Harriet Baskas in New Zealand. The pair of us, along with four other journos, were invited guests on a media trip covering an Air New Zealand promo (see Sex, Social Media and New [...]

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