Career
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Leaving my Job with No Plan B
(Note: This was written between April and May 2024.) I am leaving my job. And no, I am not burnt out. I’m just done. Working for someone is not far different than dating. You know pretty early on whether or not this is going to work out in the long…
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Why Going Silent Mode Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Career
Usually, people spend too much time talking about what they’re going to do, and not enough time doing it. Isn’t it funny that it’s the skills you often excel at, you tend to advertise the least? It has to do with uncertainty. The less certain we feel about a subject,…
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10 Bulletproof Ways You Can Avoid Burnout (with Lauren Barri)
The term “burnout” is a pretty recent phenomenon and it refers to “ a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed (WHO, 2019).” Burnout can manifest in three “dimensions” according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Often the symptoms of burnout are…
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How Practicing Detachment Can Save Your Work Life
Dear Diary, Today was a tough day at work. On the day-to-day, my role in the workplace is not just subjected to hard skills like copywriting and marketing analytics. A lot of my work is also handling and mediating people’s emotions. I don’t when or how I adopted this role,…
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Invest in these 5 Things While You’re Single
As a formal single girlie, I often look back at that time with an eye of appreciation and fondness. If there’s anything, being single gave me extraordinary strength and the ability to really lean into myself and my powers. Being in a relationship offers a tremendous amount of support (emotionally,…
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Why We Need to All Think More like a Movie Actor: My Review of the Critically Acclaimed “Greenlights”
I know what you’re thinking…. ANOTHER celebrity memoir? Hear me out, okay? I don’t believe this memoir was an attempt to create another revenue stream or to undo a PR fiasco. This wasn’t some management team decision because this memoir is a pure mess. But a beautiful one that will…
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Make your 9 to 5 a Breeding Ground for Success
Is it just me, or does it feel like every time I go on my phone, there’s this cacophony of hatred toward the 9 to 5 career? When I searched the phrase 9 to 5 on Google, the first 5 results were: “Breaking Free to 9 to 5 Culture” –…
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Niched Down: Why I Left PR— The Career that Ended up Draining Me
The art of public relations, PR, for short, is not all that it’s cut out to be on TV: boss babes, pink pantsuits, assistants, and skim lattes. It’s more attuned, based on personal experience, with hours spent pouring over minute details, people pleasing, and a lot of reading, editing, and…
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3 Times Throwing in the Towel Brought me More Joy
Most of us have grown up living with the fear of failure. It’s beaten into us at an early age. When I was maybe in the third grade, I remember nearly drowning the first time I dived off the board at my local swimming pool. In that moment, no one…
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W-T-F…How I Became a Marketer in Less Than Six Months: A Deep Dive into Career Change, Taking Risks and Failing Fast
Disclaimer: This article is not sponsored by ChatGPT nor am I implying to use ChatGPT to do your work for you. If you’ve been following along for a while now, you probably know I write. And I write A LOT, so much so I worked as a ghostwriter for a…
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