I got laid off in July 2020. I had an inkling it was coming, but wasn't positive. When I woke up on the morning that marked the end of our fiscal year, I saw an email from HR telling me they would calling me between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM, and that's when I knew…
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I graduated from college with a degree in advertising, a minor in journalism, and a concentration in new media. There was no doubt that I was going to work in some sort of communications role. At the time, I had no idea what. All I knew is I wanted to work in the non profit…
Continue reading ➞ What Would Your Job Be If You Couldn’t Do What You Do Now?
It's officially been two months since I was last employed. It's not the worst thing, I've been enjoying my free time especially as we prepare to move back to NJ. I can tell this break was a much-needed one, I've been sleeping better and just generally happier than I was when I was working.I've had…
When I got laid off, I thought that it couldn’t take me too much time to find a new job. Right? Even though millions of other people are also unemployed and I have to apply to jobs out of state and I’m trying to narrow my field - it can’t be that hard, right? Well…
Applying to jobs comes with a whole lot of imposter syndrome. I often scroll through jobs in my field and see one or two bullet points in job listings that I don’t completely understand and makes me wonder if I would be even qualified at all. How have I worked in communications for five years…
If you read my word for 2020, you'll know I've decided to assign the word "acceptance" to this year. It's something I've been think about a lot lately, I even wrote about it a little bit in my resisting happiness post. If there's one thing I could wish for myself, it would be the ability…
A millennial's biggest fear - looking like a job hopper. Well, one of their biggest fears anyway. A job hopper is someone who only spends a small amount of time with a company and then switches on to the next thing. Their resume has quite a few jobs listed, but not a lot of time…
I'm not athletic. I've never been athletic. I played soccer from when I was a child until I was 16 - basically when I lost all sense of athleticism and felt way too uncool playing soccer. I got C's in my gym class - yupp. I would walk the track and barely make the mile.…
New Hampshire and I didn't necessarily get off on the right foot. It can seem kind of glamorous to get up and leave the world behind, start somewhere new. But in reality, it's very very difficult. And I knew that coming into it and I also didn't set myself up to be in a situation…
Oh boy has it been a busy New Year. I am attempting to adjust in a new place and new job and waiting for my boyfriend to join me in our new place. It has kind of just been a month of chaos, does it show in my January photos?
