by mfg | Dec 31, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
My mother sent me off to school in a black & white -polka-dot jean skirt, slouchy oversized pink belt, and dad’s white tee. She let me to a school dance wearing purple, floral Guess jeans with a teal turtleneck. And she was complicit in dressing me in my...
by mfg | Dec 29, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
With my reverence for superheros, I’ve had a tendency to put the folks that I respect on pedestals- thinking that they must be wiser, stronger, or more competent than I. Sadly, once they’re up there, there’s nowhere to go but down. It’s both...
by mfg | Dec 23, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
“I need a history on China to read on the plane.” Check. My type-A self was out the door. Hello, Amazon. Which is the highest ranked, bestest, most complete book on China? Sure, I knew it was going to be a thick one. It’s a history of China after...
by mfg | Dec 21, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
After standing in front of the Xerox for hours, jamming it more times than I can count and angering a swath of people trying to print, I wandered back to my cube and wondered aloud, “is this what the next forty years are going to be like?” “No....
by mfg | Dec 21, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
You can loathe your position. You may stare vacantly at your boss speaking – wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. You feign laryngitis for a full two years, breaking the previous record of 18 months. And then you hear the words, thank you. You see them written on paper,...
by mfg | Dec 20, 2010 | Work, Working Professional.
It’s not hard to pick up the phone and order four dozen cupcakes. It is more challenging to balance the four dozen while holding an umbrella and walking in heels in the rain at 7 a.m. But you pull it off. It takes even more gumption when then you are asked to...
