So it probably wasn’t the wisest idea for me to make my first week of having a puppy the very same as my first week at my new job. Whoopsies. I always do this, don’t I. Despite my best efforts to make change a more gradual process for myself, I always manage to cram it [...]
Change is afoot here at the House of Duck. As you may have seen on Twitter, I got a job! I’ll be starting as a Senior Account Executive at Marblehead-based PR firm CGPR next week. This is a big change for a lot of reasons. For one, the median age of my co-workers is increasing [...]
What I didn’t get to mention in my revelations yesterday was how very hard it was for me to leave my job, so let me tell you, it was a veryveryhardthing. My stomach was in knots all week, it was on my mind constantly, haunting me like a bad dream. I’ve never quit any job [...]
This week has been a bit of an anomaly for me. My boss has been on vacation and things have been pretty quiet at the office, so I’ve been able to take it a little easy. But instead of doing what I normally do when I am gifted with a bit of spare time (which [...]
Just came across this great diagram on share some candy. Have you seen this yet? This is a fantastic framework for thinking about your career and how to be happy with what you do. When I saw this, it just made sense to me, the idea that the ideal situation is when what you want [...]
I spent the majority of my time last week at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts. Those of you who read this blog regularly know I don’t usually talk about work or clients. Not because I don’t enjoy those things (on the contrary, I very much do), but because this blog naturally tends [...]
