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It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’m a long-time reader of your site and wanted to thank you for your work. It has been a huge influence in my success as a manager. I am a woman without a degree, working in a departmental leadership role in higher ed. My department has been good to […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “My note goes out to all the women who have written in about gathering their courage to ask for a raise because their stories gave me the courage to ask for a raise! My organization approached me about job training for advanced work, along with bumping me up the […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “After many years freelancing part-time while being a full-time parent I decided to return to the workforce. Job-hunting is stressful and full of disappointment. I’ve been ghosted more times than I can count and I stopped counting how many jobs I applied to a long time ago. To say […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I am so excited to share my own good news update with you. After twelve years in the same role, including six as PhD student, I reached burnout by the end of 2021. My job, though personally rewarding, had no opportunity for professional or financial growth and I didn’t […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’ve been reading your blog for the last year solidly and learnt a huge amount. With that in mind, I recently interviewed for an IT support role supporting over 200 users as a team of 2 people. The initial interview went well enough that I was offered the job, […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “In 2019, I found out some of my firm’s clients were… very not aligned with my values (namely, private prison companies). Anxious to get a new job, I jumped into an agency role in a new industry—in January 2020. Looking back, I absolutely ignored some red flags, but I […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’ve worked in higher education for more than a decade. Although I personally had wonderful support as a person and professional during Covid from my immediate team and leadership (love those STEM Ph.Ds!), higher ed as a whole has been pretty resistant to adapting, and I seriously considered leaving […]

It’s your Friday good news: 1.  “I’ve never written in, but I read the site every single day. I’ve been at my current company for over 12 years, and just last year I finally landed in a role that I love. My company merged with another one about a year ago, so I went from […]

It’s your Friday good news: I had just started my job hunt when I saw a posting for Dream Job at Dream Company — a position that never existed in my area until it recently got relocated here. I purchased your How to Get a Job: Secrets of A Hiring Manager ebook and got to […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I am very excited to share my Friday good news — you can count me as one of those that thought ‘this will never happen to me!’ I got fed up with my job this summer when they denied me to work from home one additional day (to make […]