The question we are answering today is really at the crux of this blog. To give perspective from women who have lived through the tension of the twenties…all the possibilities …and all the unknowns. The point is not to tell you what to do but to give you the benefit of our myriad of experiences […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Career & Finance’ category
Finding a Voice When It’s Not Your Own Language
Q. Dear 40-Somethings, I have been working for around 2 years at a job doing what I like. However, it is in an environment where most of the people speak a language where I am not very proficient at. Many of them also have more experience than me. Sometimes I feel that my voice is not […] Read more…
What Does “You Just Work It Out” Mean To You?
Last’s week’s Atlantic article,” Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter re-opened the discussion over whether women can have it all. Anne Marie Slaughter left her position as the first female director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department (and career topping chance to have a real impact on the world) […] Read more…
What I Know Now….Live Life in the Next 30 Seconds
One inspiring woman’s perspective on what she knows now that she wishes she knew in her twenties. – 40-something, executive, international marketing and advertising, married, has been through ebbs and flows personally and professional and has no regrets! On body image “Take all the energy that goes into worrying about being fat and put it […] Read more…
20-Something Question: Starting and Starting Over After Divorce
Q. I have 2 children aged 3 and 1. I am getting divorced. I am originally from the UK so my degree isn’t really transferable (its an undergraduate law degree). I am happy here but need to get a job, I have no family here, haven’t worked in years. And I have no confidence about […] Read more…
Power Play: New Manager Caught Between a Rock & A Hard Place
Q. I’m a newly employed Manager of an educational consulting firm — just two weeks in. My officer administrator is the most experienced staff member of the company and she is killing me. My MD said I was hired to tame her rudeness & defiance to every instruction given. She attacks every instruction, misleads others, […] Read more…
Find Your Inner Bomb
“Don’t not take meetings because you’re scared. The best advice I got early on in my career is that being an entrepreneur, whether you like it or not, you have to pretend like you’re the bomb all the time. Exaggerate like nobody would ever. Be confident. I know it’s hard. You’re young but you […] Read more…
Talking About The Work Revolution with Julie Clow
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Julie Clow. She is a not-quite-40-something who is truly satisfied with where she is in life. In her own words: “I have been married and divorced – and weathered them both. I have a daughter who is in college, so I’ve navigated raising a child from birth to […] Read more…