Small progress

I tried writing tonight.

It didn’t work.

But I tried, and that’s progress.

I also asked for help at work, and I got it, and I haven’t screwed up the relationship between me and the people I’m working with, so that’s progress.

Salary ranges

Here’s a simple thing you can do to help all of us succeed:

When a recruiter contacts you about a position — whether it’s one you’re interested in or not, whether you’re looking or not — check to see if they’ve listed the salary range.

Sit with it.

When I was about 9, my grandmother had a stroke. She lost the ability to speak, the ability to write, and most of the use of the right side of her body. As she recovered she sometimes called me by the wrong name. She was shorter of temper, easily frustrated… but also decided for the first time in 60…