PORTFOLIO CREATIVE BLOG

Kondo Your Career: Tidying Up Your Work Life (it could be magic!)

By Kristen Harris A few years ago Marie Kondo wrote a little book about the “life-changing magic” of tidying up your home, which gained popularity and spiraled into a Netflix series. Now it seems like everyone I know is “tidying up”. The word “Kondo” has even morphed into a verb. Friends of mine have said ”…last week I Kondoed my kitchen…” or “I spent all week Kondoing…” In fact, just last night I Kondoed my tee shirt drawer (she was right, they’re easier to find when folded into little squares).

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Finding Your Passion: Checklist for Remapping Your Career

By Catherine Lang-Cline When we are children, we have these grand ideas of what we want to be when we grow up. The most common career choices are often firefighter, veterinarian, maybe astronaut. If it is not one of these, it is something else that has been exhibited in some way to us when we are children. Most of us went on to do something else, as we were exposed to many other options as we got older. Where we are now might be a path of where we were

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Job Hunting in a Down Market

Okay, so it’s not a great time to be looking for a job. But is there ever really a great time? For most people job hunting is one of the most stressful processes they go through no matter what the economic situation. Layer in all of the recent financial craziness, and you might just want to close your eyes and hope it’s all just a dream, or nightmare. Open your eyes! That’s not going to help, in fact in a down market you need to be doing more not
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