How do you know when your high expectations are too high?
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Career
I find hiring people really challenging. I’m not going to lie. I was trained as a journalist, not as a manager; and as such a small company run by mostly young people, we learn as we go. And that’s awesome!
But I find the whole process awkward, kind of like dating or interacting [...]
Tags: career path, TalentEgg, whining, workaholic
Why I still don’t have Internet access at home four months later
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Health, Issues
It’s been four months since I moved back to Toronto for work after a four-month stint living at my dad’s after graduating university and breaking up with a boyfriend.
Until four months ago, I’d had Internet access wherever I was living nearly continuously for over 10 years, maybe more. I feel like I’ve had the Internet [...]
Tags: Cambridge, emotional breakdown, goals, observations, perfectionism, Toronto, web and tech, workaholic
Oh no, I feel a quarter-life crisis coming on. Crap!
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Randomness
Despite appearing to be really good at patting myself on the back for a job well done, I seem to be going through one of those pesky quarter-life crises.
I assumed I would avoid it altogether because I nabbed an awesome job straight out of school, but the truth is now that I’m all settled in [...]
Tags: career path, emotional breakdown, goals, moving, perfectionism, TalentEgg, workaholic
Mission accomplished
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Career
I promised myself I would blog more often once I finished school because I wouldn’t be working the equivalent of two full-time jobs (just one), but I’ve still managed to keep myself surprisingly busy.
The only huge news I have is that my face was on the “front page” of GlobeandMail.com on Friday! And not for [...]
Tags: career path, National Post, newspaper industry, published, TalentEgg, workaholic
Perfectionism: good or bad?
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Career
Most of the others left by 8 p.m.
My fellow news editor worked on the layout of the newspaper with me until about 11.
But I stayed until almost 1 a.m. perfecting the layout of a single page — a special, one-time page on the students’ union election — because I work much faster on my own [...]
Tags: perfectionism, workaholic
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