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The past week has been a bit of a blur because of planning for Meet, Plan, Go Portland. Smashing success and here’s what else I’ve been up to lately. -Tasty n Sons – It’d been a year since I’d had breakfast at Tasty n Sons. I should really go here more often. The cast iron [...]

My move into my new places randomly coincided with my switch to working from home. It’s been about four months now {WHAT!?!}, and although it’s definitely been an adjustment, creating my own little work space has really helped me adjust to working from home, and not letting my work area take over the entire 600-ish [...]

It had been a few years since I updated my portfolio/resume website.  I had let the hosting expire, only keeping the domain.  So I’ve now changed the DNS and pointed it at a blogger site to keep things simple (and cheaper).  Most of the free templates were either too simple, but not clean design or [...]

It’s been over a year since I quit my job to travel.  Now that I’ve been back on the job hunt for a month, I’ve assembled a list of ways to streamline your job search. Set up RSS feeds. Just because you’re unemployed doesn’t mean that you want to spend hours every day combing through [...]

Get 25% off sitewide on SeeJaneWork.com Promo Code: 25OFF09 Expires:  January 31, 2009 Add to your ‘happiness at work’ quotient by surrounding yourself with fun and useful office gear. Here are a few things I love from See Jane Work: Knock Knock’s “All Out Of” grocery shopping lists Office Basics Letter Trays – in happy [...]

Here’s one I didn’t complete this year. 2007 401k Contribution Limit: $15,500 My Contribution: $10,573 I’ll be working on this one a little bit harder next year. :) In the meantime, here’s a few savings tips. How To Not Be Poor When You’re Old: Start saving NOW, yes, seriously, NOW. Check out this 401k Calculator [...]

When did I do this? If I told you, I’d have to kill you. :) It was sometime this year… I didn’t do anything reeeally fun. I worked on a project for school, cleaned my apartment and went to dinner. So it was more of a mental health day. Maybe I should only consider this [...]

I’m finally done! After 2 years of part-time classes, I’m officially done with my MBA! After undergrad, I had no intentions of getting my MBA, and I’m glad that I took some time away from school before going back. It gives you some perspective on what you’re learning. What did I learn? Not what I [...]

The purpose of writing in a work “journal” was to be able to look back and see how much I collectively accomplished in one month. Did it work? Yes and no. At first, I documented too much. :) Surprise, surprise, but it ended up being a good thing. Towards the end, I just noted what [...]

Although working at a company without a dress code policy can be fun, it also makes you lose all motivation to look nice — and fairly quickly! Hello, flip flops! Yeah, it’s gotten that bad. So in an effort to be more professional, I made a conscious effort to wear heels and flats for two [...]