I told this guy who wrote to me that I do not remember ever actually meeting him, even though he says we had a great conversation. He wrote back. He was relentless, so I asked him to tell me a bit about himself. He wrote, among other things, “I’m the guy you want to date.� It was such a direct...

Let’s say you get fired, or laid off, or you quit because after two weeks you know you’re at the worst company on the planet. In all of those cases, you will face the interview question: What happened at your last job? Here’s the answer you should always give: “I left to do x.� And you fil...

Brian Wiegand is a very low-profile guy who has sold three companies, most recently to Microsoft. He is big enough that TechCrunch writes about him as a good bet for anyone betting. But the bane of Brian’s existence is that his exits have all been for under $50 million. This is enough for him to h...

We finally locked up funding for my company. There are some catches, though, and one of them is that we can’t use the funding to pay back debt. This is a problem because our company has been out of money, pretty much, since November. We have revenue, but not enough to cover operating expenses. So ...

I love RealSelf. It's a site that educates women about choices for looking younger. I have written a lot about how anti-aging information is essential for managing one's career. Aging is not equal in the workplace. Women are penalized much more heavily than men. So women can gain power in ...

As the recession persists, we can watch social shifts and cultural trends. Some are good, some are bad. But in either case, one way to control how the recession affects you is to watch the larger trends and decide where you want to fit. Here are five trends that are emerging in the face of the large...

The house manager comes in my front door at 8am. I tell her, “The exterminator is in the kitchen but I forgot to get the cats and bunny out of the house, and the cleaning woman is in the dining room, but she cannot clean while the exterminator is here, and I forgot to send the violin to school for...

Being laid off used to be taboo. But not anymore. And most of us have thought through some sort of plan for if it happens to us. Gone are the days when people pretend this is not happening. One of the things my ex-husband and I did well, as did our peers, was learn to tag-team in the layoff departme...

This guest post is part of the Twentysomething series of guest posts that I run periodically. Today's guest post is an open letter to Obama from a twentysomething investment banker working in a London office of a US bank. The letter is in response to the salary caps Obama is putting on bankers ...

Here's a post for all the people who are trying to be artists. It is not a friendly post. I do not think that people who want to create art need to get paid to do it. Do you get paid to have sex? No. Same thing. You love it, but you just do it after work. And sometimes, if you are driven mad by...