Tag: life
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Knowing Your Worth in a Down Market
By Sheree Johnson It’s hard to stay positive while you’re looking for work. Really hard. You spend your days scrolling — LinkedIn, WineJobs, whatever board might be holding the thing you’re looking for — sending applications out into a silence you already know most of them won’t break. And you learn, quickly, that a lot…
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Make a Way Where There Isn’t One
By Sheree Johnson I was scrolling TikTok the other day when I came across a New York Times piece about Cuba. Six months into the fuel crisis brought on by the Trump administration’s oil blockade, and Cubans are doing what people do when the ground shifts beneath them — enduring, improvising, inventing their way through…
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I Built My Dream Job Once. I’m Doing It Again.
A year ago, I was in danger of losing a job I thought I’d retire from. It wasn’t exciting work, but I believed it was stable — and after everything, stable felt like enough. Then management changed, a new director landed on my team, and I got the distinct feeling she had it out for…