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November 2008
The Archives
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11.26.08Getting Older and the End of Family Traditions
blog (2)My sister got married in the summer of 2007, the same summer I moved to Chicago. I'm fairly certain that with a sibling's marriage comes the inevitable transformation of family holiday traditions. Besides the marriage, my extended family is huge, and growing. My dad comes from a family of eight kids—my mom, six. I lost count of my cousins somewhere around 50 or 60. They're getting married and reproducing at such a steady rate that it's hard to get everyone in one place anymore. Part of me wants to keep old family traditions going—the part of me that hates change and ...
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11.24.08Going Against Mainstream Ideas of Success
podcast (2)[display_podcast] We've all heard that money doesn't buy happiness, and with recent downturns in the economy, the generally accepted ideas of success—driven by consumption money—may be shifting more toward personal fulfillment and making a difference. For about 25 percent of the population, known as "cultural creatives," success has always been defined by personal fulfillment rather than money. Tara Joyce realized she fell into this category soon after beginning her life in the corporate world, which led her to found her company, Elastic Mind. Links Tara's Blog: Rise of the Innerpreneur Cultural Creatives: culturalcreatives.org Cultural Creatives have also been labeled as the "Integral Culture": The Global Spiral ...
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11.20.08Personal Budget Breakdown
blog (5)With all the news lately about people (specifically Americans) living beyond their means, I thought I might discuss a topic that is typically considered somewhat taboo—my personal budget from the past month. I've been entering my spending into Expensr religiously for about a year now to figure out my budget breakdown. I've covered Expensr once before here on the blog—you can anonymously enter your information and then break it out for evaluation and compare yourself to others who have defined themselves through various tags. For example, I've tagged myself with 23, young professional, woman, renting, Chicago, employed full time, etc. ...
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11.19.08There Are No New Ideas
blog (3)"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt." -Audre Lorde As much as we would all love to believe that we, as creative professionals are continually coming up with completely original ideas and work, the truth is that creativity in communications is often the result of applying new insights to familiar ideas. We work with a finate number of basic media types—it's similar to the idea that all literature derives from only seven basic plots—but from this somewhat limited pool, the possibilities for new stories are endless. I recently came across an exercise from a class I ...
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11.18.08Classmate’s Tragic Death Puts Things in Perspective
blog (3)I logged into facebook last night to find my highschool friends coming out en masse to mourn the loss of a highschool classmate who died in an accident on Sunday night. I don't know if you've ever seen a funeral as an event in your facebook feed—I hope you never do. It's hard to get your mind around something like this. It's a startling reminder of how fragile life really is—that ultimately, life's too short to carry on doing something you're not passionate about.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Classmate’s Tragic Death Puts Things in Perspective", url: "http://TheCreativeCareer.com/2008/11/18/classmates-tragic-death-puts-things-in-perspective/" });
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11.17.08Jamie Ridler, Creative Self Development Coach, Shares a New Approach to Networking
podcast (1)[display_podcast] Jamie Ridler helps people create the lives they love based on who they are, rather than who they think they "should" be. She has some helpful advice for students as they approach their careers and networking Learn Not to Take Things Too Personally This one can be especially hard for students and young professionals—it can be very challenging when we put out our creative work out there and people don't like it, but sometimes the work just isn't the right fit for the particular project or person. It's like an actor going to an audition. Sometimes they are looking for a very ...
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11.15.08Blue Man Group, Sir Ken Robinson Team Up to Start School That Doesn’t Kill Creativity
blog (0)Sir Ken Robinson, of my all-time favorite TED Talk, Do schools kill creativity? (if you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend you do) has teamed up with the original Blue Men of Blue Man Group to create a new kind of school—one that embraces creativity by letting students explore and select their own interests while learning through music, movement, drama, visual arts, drama, media arts, technology and field trips to explore New York City culture. The catch—the school is currently only taking applications for first grade and younger, due today in order to get in next fall ...
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11.14.08Relocating Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
blog (2)In a recent study, 85% of students surveys said they were interested in relocating after college—and today's economic climate may force more to move in order to find work. When I moved to Chicago in July of 2007, I knew next to no one. I only wish that I'd had (or known about) some of the great resources for connecting with other young people at the time. Sure, there are plenty of ways to do it on your own, but thanks to the wonderful power of the Internet, new resources are making it easier than ever. In fact, you ...
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11.13.08Calling Millennial Bloggers (Cool Opportunity)
blog (9)I want to call to attention a pretty neat opportunity through a client I am working with at Edelman. Pepsi is looking for a few millennial bloggers to head out their headquarters in Purchase, NY to participate in a panel discussion with the Pepsi team around December 16-17. It sounds like it could be a great chance to have a voice within a large organization, and to tell Pepsi what people our age are really thinking. I'll try to get more information for you, but in the meantime, leave me a comment or email me and let me know if ...
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11.13.08Unpaid Internship - Yay or Neigh?
blog (6)After following a lively discussion about unpaid internships over at 20 Something Bloggers, I think it's time that I weigh in with my own thoughts. I used to be adamantly against unpaid internships—and I still am in certain cases. The relationship should be mutually beneficial—if you are working as an unpaid intern and all you're doing is answering phones, that's an abuse of the relationship. There are two factors that must be accounted for before accepting an unpaid internship. You should be receiving college credit for the experience. The role should provide you with real and valuable experience—not just look ...
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