Marty Nemko
Marty Nemko
Martin Nathan Nemkois an American career coach, author, columnist, and public radio host specializing in career/workplace issues and education reform. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named Nemko "The Bay Area's Best Career Coach." U.S. News described him as "job coach extraordinaire." In its summit on education, ABC-TV called him "The Ralph Nader of Education." A regular contributor to Time.com and PsychologyToday.com, he has written over 3,000 published articles. For example, he wrote The Big Idea feature on WashingtonPost.com, the Working...
kids parent skins
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.
thinking people feelings
I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's zeitgeist that insists it takes a village. That's disempowering although possibly true for many people.
giving good-job relevant
Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.
Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.
believe volunteer important
If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.
jobs keys average
Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job.
seen
You want to be seen as an up-and-comer, not the stereotypical young slacker.
people trying path
You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.
hurt sleep hygiene
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.
believe emotional doubt
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.
book writing
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll likely only get to address one.
people being-nice positive-impact
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.