May 12, 2012
When I was a teenager, my mom held the job as the regional sales manager for Del Monte foods. I remember marveling at her confidence in her job. ‘Trying’ to sell to someone was something I always thought to be extremely uncomfortable. By that time, I’d done some retail work and no matter how often [...]
May 4, 2012
It’s so easy to complain about work. It’s HARD, right? The to-do list keeps getting longer, bad attitudes and mistakes ambush our workdays (and add to the to-do’s), morale is down, we feel undervalued and the ‘real’ innovative work we’re interested in keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the heap…underneath all that administrative crap [...]
April 19, 2012
Last weekend, I went to a nail salon with a friend of mine who recently moved to a new, small-ish community near Los Angeles. Not knowing the area, she did a quick Google/Yelp search and after learning that our first choice didn’t have availability, we made an appointment with the second option. The comment that [...]