Everybody Can’t Skate to the Rooftop

Most of us have to be willing to build a foundation first. In the media there are so many people thrown to the top these days, not for having talent or working hard, but for being related to someone famous, just for looking pretty, for sleeping with the right person, for having a bajillion kids, [...]

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Out There On The Ocean

  Sometimes It feels like Everything Is passin’ me by Every now and then It feels like (feels like) My ship has gone and sailed away But I I gonna be strong (gotta be strong) Gotta hold on It won’t be too long I would travel to the seven seas (I would even go) I [...]

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WLLC Update

WLLC’s going through a transitional phase right now. When I started working an hour away a few weeks ago during a night shift that goes from mid-afternoon to 1 in the morning, I thought I would just work on the blog during the morning and go to work at night. But then the need for [...]

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Guest Post: F*** Corporate America

By DevaDonna, another J school friend/alumna …Because Corporate America does not give a f*** about you. Or its own employees. (Reference Madoff, Enron, Tyco, AIG, The Big 3 and all of Wall Street.) Corporate America wants you to work yourself and be inconvenienced by them, in return for what? A funky lil’ paycheck that taxes [...]

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Dream Jobs

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a career they enjoy so much that it doesn’t even feel like work, or something they would do even if money wasn’t involved. In contrast, while working at a call center temporarily, I came face to face with a job that was just a job. People were there [...]

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