Not to brag, but I’m one of those people who has largely breezed by in life. I’m extremely lucky to have parents who were super supportive, but also strict as all get out, which instilled in a lot of really good habits in me when I was really young. I’m also pretty smart. I’m not…
We all have our special skill sets and networking is not one of mine. Unfortunately, it’s a really important skill. Lucky for me, I know a few people who don’t suck at it. One of them is Shannon from Financially Blonde who was kind enough to share her mad networking skillz with us so that one day…
I’ve been reading a lot about how you value your time lately. I took one of those nifty quizzes lately that told me I value my time at $22.50 an hour. Which is awesome, because I don’t make that much (post tax)… perhaps this explains my perpetual state of discontentment and urge to side hustle. Read more…
You know those moments when you’re in the zone? You can knock out tons of work and it seems like your mind is on fire. You can achieve anything! I don’t know about you, but my perfect zone is right after I wake up on a day when I don’t have anything pressing to do.…
I’ve decided that interviewing people is actually the most stressful part of hiring. Turns out, some people are incredible writers, who make a great impression with their cover letter and resume, but then are total duds at interviewing. Others, who were almost a stretch to make it into the interview pile, have actually wowed me.…
Continuing on with the How to Get Hired or Now to Not Get Hired series, I want to focus on references. How to Get Hired Pick a reference who is happy to cough up several examples of your great work. Tell this person you’ve applied for a job, so they can expect a phone call.…
This week was the first time I ever had to run a job search from beginning to end with a large number of candidates. Since starting my new job, I’ve had to hire several props and wardrobe people, but all came as recommendations from trusted colleagues and friends. This week I posted a job on…
Every job has its tools and one of the biggest money suckers for a stage manager is their kit. What’s a stage manager kit? Well, it harkens back to the idea that a stage manager is the person who is “absolutely responsible for absolutely everything” for a production… which is an over or under simplification…
After all that jetsetting through my twenties, I recently transitioned to a pretty normal job. Now I work as a Production Manager for an Off-Broadway theater. It’s sort of a step away from Stage Management, but uses a lot of the same skills. If, for some crazy reason, this was a path you were thinking…
So, like I haven’t rambled about my weird adventures enough in the last two weeks… if you wanted to know more about what it was like to live on a cruise ship, check out my guest post over at Budgets Are Sexy. Some people do crazy things like recycle their toilet paper to save a…