With unemployment rates in the double digits these days, getting fired from a job carries less of a stigma than it once did. Major corporations form and fall in the blink of an eye, meaning that... Read more >>

In 1993, I was a twenty-two-year-old hotshot. Or so I thought. As a publicist for NBC News in New York, I was making enough money to have a nice life, rent my own apartment, enjoy manicures on... Read more >>

So it looks like I did it again. I was thirty-three when I got fired for the first time, thirty-four when I got fired for the second time. Apparently life is giving me a second chance, take two on... Read more >>

“SURGERY,” I had written in bold red letters on the calendar square for January 30, 2008. I scheduled my thyroid surgery for early in the year thinking I would supply the remaining eleven... Read more >>

Everyone seems to be losing his or her job these days. It’s a professional rite of passage. Maybe you’ve been fired, laid off, or moved to a less-desirable role? Maybe you’re just... Read more >>

With the recent economic crisis, you may be thinking more seriously about on-ramping back into the workforce. This is a natural time to consider hiring a career coach. However, if you’re feeling... Read more >>

How many times have you heard that saying and mumbled to yourself, “Why doesn’t it come faster?” Well, I have found out that as we age into those “experienced years,” our... Read more >>

I hung out at a friend’s house the other day and the moment she opened the door, she exclaimed that she had been laid off—that very day! She thought it was strange that she was given vague... Read more >>

I would have liked to believe there was something heroic about how I handled getting fired. I’d like to think I was Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok, or the Samurai falling on his sword. In La... Read more >>

I hate when people quote my own books to me. Not only do I cringe at the gap between whom I aspire to be and who I actually am. It pisses me off. Dan knew this, but after laying the traps, and... Read more >>