Friday good news

Every Friday, readers share good news they’ve had in their jobs or job searches. Those posts are all compiled here.

it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! I am a long-time lurker who has drunk her morning coffee with your column every Monday through Friday. I’ve been a stay-at-home mom for 13 years and finding your website has taught me so much though I have been out of the workforce for so long. During this time I […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’ve been an AAM reader since at least 2009. In the intervening years, I was laid off in the Great Recession, floundered in Unemployment Land for almost two years, took a series of low-wage jobs, went back to school, finished my bachelor’s and got a master’s, and embarked on […]

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Friday good news … this time with updates

It’s your Friday good news — the updates version! Here are updates from people who shared good news here in the past. 1. The person who got multiple offers after a string of bad jobs (#1 at the link) I had emailed a year ago with a good news Friday update and some wild job […]

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more Friday good news: an update

It’s more Friday good news — the updates version! Here’s an update from someone who shared good news here in the past. I thought I’d offer an update to my Friday Good News from the summer (#1 at the link). I ended up being on a camping trip without signal for the weekend my letter was […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! I had two huge professional milestones this year, and both of them were aided by AAM. In late 2022, I pushed for and received a title change that I felt I truly deserved, based on the work that I’d been doing for over a year with a lower title and […]

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more Friday good news … this time with updates

It’s more Friday good news — this time with updates! Here are updates from people who shared good news here in the past. 1. The person who found a new job after a hard job search (#1 at the link) I wanted to write in because the job I thought was my second choice and […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! The last few years I was teaching, even before the pandemic, I was thinking I should look outside the profession. I put it off and put it off, and then taught the first year of the pandemic. We had to teach in person and online simultaneously, which was … difficult. […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “At the beginning of the year, my office received approval to hire for several positions across two departments, one of those departments being mine. We knew we were likely to have many strong candidates internally, and externally. In a managers’ meeting, I advocated that we send our interview questions […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! I was job hunting for a few months, largely because I was vastly underpaid for my qualifications, experience, and the work I was doing. After months of radio silence, I got an email from HR for one of my applications to set up an interview. One thing I want to […]

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it’s your Friday good news

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “An email I thought I’d never get to send! I’ve been reading your site for years now, ever since I was a struggling recent grad trying to navigate my first “once in a lifetime” recession. That was a sticky, underemployed wicket, but I credit both your posts and the […]

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