Career Reinvention

Maybe you’re waffling about a return to work because you think you have to completely give up your freedom and work for an inflexible boss.  That’s only one possible scenario:  don’t forget the option of working for your flexible self.    The entrepreneurial path isn’t for everyone—but those who can roll up their sleeves for…

At Wheaton College in Massachusetts, Hope Ogletree was a true liberal arts student: she began as a music major and left with a degree in American Studies.  She learned a lot about many interesting subjects, but her biggest take-away could not be found in textbook pages.  Hope says that the college gave her lifelong confidence…

It has often been said that necessity is the mother of invention.  Especially when two smart mothers identify a need. One day Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple of Hingham, Massachusetts were walking their dogs and talking about their college freshmen.  That morning’s topic?  Sheets that never seemed to leave the bed and enter the washing…

I’ve spoken to women in their 40s who say they are too old to work.  I’ve spoken to out of work women in their 50s who say no one would hire them in a different industry.  And I’ve spoken to Joan Kaskell, a woman who has never stopped finding intellectually stimulating work…well past the traditional…

When Christina Paul and her husband, Matt, were students at the University of Connecticut Law School, they were moot court partners—and once their relationship took a serious turn they talked about some day starting a practice together. Three high powered, big law firm jobs, one apartment, two houses, four children and thirteen years later they…

Though I helped many women successfully return to the workforce in my recruiting days, there were quite a few who said they were ready for the transition—but they really were not.  That caused a lot of frustrating starts and stops and 11th hour change of hearts.  It’s just a reality that some women have to…

I’ve seen a wide variety of articles on the top careers for women—and Financial Advisor always tops the list.  In my recruiting years I was often asked to search for FA candidates, and I always came away thinking there were great opportunities, but for a somewhat limited group of women.    The sticking points, in…

Itching to work again but not quite sure what you want to do?  Frustrated with the lack of  interesting jobs available and thinking about doing something on your own?  Maybe it’s time to get on the web.    I’ve read that “web professional” is one of the top jobs for women today.  Before you say…

Stay at home or sell your soul to the world of work?  That’s the black and white decision many women think they’re facing.  In reality there are many (non X-rated) shades of grey.    After a decade’s focus on finding women flexible work, I know that part-time jobs—outside of retail stores—are very hard to find. …

When Irene Bick of Bronxville, New York was in seventh grade she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up:  a doctor or a nurse. Ever determined, she figured out how to become a Red Cross volunteer and then a candy striper in an osteopathic hospital.  Though she took her volunteer job very…