When my mom joined Facebook, it didn’t really faze me. I’m well past my partying days, and there’s really not a lot I wouldn’t tell my mom. She’s awesome.
All the in-laws and extended pseudo-relatives I can accept with the knowledge that my “crazy liberal” social activism probably boils their blood as much as their inane quoting of FOX News [...]

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Back to the daily grind this week, with a hell of a hangover. It’s not just the excessive eating and drinking of things not normally consumed. We also overindulge in leisure, and, if we’re really lucky, surround ourselves with an abundance of love.

And on the morning after, we return to the cold hard workplace, [...]

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I’m a nerd. I loved school. I loved grades. And I wasn’t even the kind of kid who bragged about them – they were my own personal treasure that I hoarded like Scrooge McDuck hoarded gold.

But I don’t love being scored in the workplace. I guess even when you get the equivalent of a 90% [...]

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My complete lack of interest in Thanksgiving this year has me feeling like a Jew on Christmas. Thousands of miles from family this holiday with no real plans, I feel rather nonchalant about the whole thing. And yet, even without Mom’s sweet potatoes or Aunt Debbie’s broccoli casserole, I still have something to be thankful for: the [...]

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It all started my senior year of college. My best college chum and I were stressing out about finding find jobs after graduation. She took it upon herself to point out every “Apply Within” or “Now Hiring” sign she saw on any business – anywhere – including every stop along our Spring Break road trip [...]

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Welcome to Hollywood ! What’s your dream?

Sure, plenty of hard-working Americans balance two or more jobs (when the economy allows) just to make ends meet. And many of those folks live in Los Angeles. But in Hollywood, which is more an LA subculture than an actual physical location, the second job is where your true [...]

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I know what you’re thinking: It’s way too early to be thinking about holiday parties. But before you know it, you’ll be avoiding bell ringers outside of Target. Growing up, I always thought the office holiday party would be so cool… like Die Hard but with fewer terrorists. So to prep you, I’m sharing a [...]

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Job interviews are such an interesting game – almost like a blind date. If you’re paying close attention, you can learn a lot about what the relationship could be like.

When I was interviewing for my first “real job” after college, I flew to the San Francisco Bay area and stayed with a friend’s parents [...]

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I don’t really feel like thinking about work, and I don’t feel like working. When I get like this, I like to think about all the things I could do if I didn’t have to work, like if I suddenly came into a giant hunk of money and didn’t have to worry about health insurance…
What [...]

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Two of my good friends are newly unemployed — I know, not exactly headline news in today’s climate. Still, breaking up is hard to do, and when it’s your employer, it has a special cold and stony feeling to it. It makes you feel like they are telling you that all this time you were [...]

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