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Flashback Friday: Work-Life Balance
I’ve often wondered what advice my 30something self would give my 20something self. Now, through the time travel magic of journaling, we can find out. I present to you CA101′s first-ever “Flashback...
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Sense of Control and Career: Too Much Gloom Spells Doom
It’s that time of year when graduating college students shift into career victimization mode. “I’ll never get a job. Nothing I do will ever matter. I might as well go curl up in a ball and watch...
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There’s Nothing I Can Do. Or Is There?
The twenties are a time when everything feels out of control: you can visualize a lifestyle you’d like to have, but can’t see the steps to get there; your job is entry-level and low paying, if you’ve...
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Fear of Regret Can Paralyze…or Propel
There are regrets (Why did I post that drunken selfie on FB?) and then there are regrets (Why did I study sociology when I want to be an architect?). In our twenties we tend to fear both types of...
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How to Have an Identity Crisis
An identity crisis sounds like an awful experience. And, sure, having one doesn’t feel terrific: you’re searching, unsure of who you are or what you’re going to do next, and open to more possibilities...
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Who’s In Your Rear-View Mirror?
Yesterday a large, black, Chevy truck rode right on my tail as I brought my daughter home from daycare. Even though I knew it was a cop-infested stretch of road, I found myself going 15 mph above the...
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The Meandering Path
Welcome to our first ever CA101 video presentation! In early April, I organized a panel discussion at Bates College called “The Meandering Path” in which psychology professors (including yours truly)...
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Three Lessons Worth Taking from the TIME Cover Story on Millennials
Let’s start with what we already know: the recent TIME cover article about millennials is little more than a desperate bid to boost sales. The cover itself simply restates hackneyed stereotypes about...
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Why the F-Word is Key to Your Future
If you don’t care about your life beyond age 30, you can stop reading right now; you can probably get through until then without the F-word. But if you’re looking to build a life you find fulfilling,...
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Labels are for Packages, not People
Reblogged from Creative-Guru: My guest today is Rebecca Fraser-Thill from Career Avoidance 101. Currently a psychology professor at Bates College, a mother, a spouse, a writer, and a great source of...
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The Creative Path to Personal Fulfillment
It’s a big day here at CA101! We have an awesome guest post from Raimy Diaz of Creative-Guru. She was one of CA101′s original students, and has been on a fascinating journey to find her path, as you’ll...
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Why Milestone Birthdays Disappoint – And How to Get Over It
Milestone birthdays come fast and furious in high school and college – 16! 18! 21! – and, by and large, they’re pretty hot. Parties! Driving! Drinking! Then everything changes. 25 = Good god, the...
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The Patchwork Quilt of a Creative Career
I’m honored to have written today’s guest post on Chaos and Words, a site created by the lovely Ashley, whom you may remember from her popular guest post, The Twenysomething Identity Crisis. In today’s...
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Original Video: Passion, Work and Your 20s (A Corny Visual Guide)
I recently got myself involved in a challenge. Or, more appropriately, a dare. I’d been commenting back and forth with actor Steven Sparling, the blogger behind The Thriving Creative (if you haven’t...
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Who Are You and Why Does Your Work Matter?
Big questions, aren’t they? Thankfully there’s a super-quick, uber-helpful tool to prod your thinking on these very questions. Available for free! With no catches. (Say what?) I know, I was in...
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When Work and You Align
I had the coolest experience last week: I realized that what I do and who I am are one and the same. I don’t mean this in some creepy “I live my work, am super-glued to my inbox, and have no life”...
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Is Meaningful, Purposeful Work Reserved for the Privileged Elite?
“All of this talk about finding meaningful and purposeful work is nice and all,” one of my students says as we gather around our upper-level seminar table. “But it isn’t applicable outside of a small,...
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The Upside of Rejection: Room for Serendipity
Over the past few months I’ve faced my fair share of career rejections. It’s not so much that I’m being personally “rejected” as that the hobbled economy is drying up many of my freelance, writing, and...
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The Upside of Rejection, Part II: A More Authentic Fit
Last time we discussed one benefit of being rejected from career-related opportunities: making space for serendipity. Today we’ll look at another upside I’ve experienced and observed: how rejection...
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The Upside of Rejection, Part III: Motivation Builder
Rejection as motivation builder? Am I smoking something? Yes rejection stinks. Worse than my daughter’s diaper pail at the end of a hot summer week. I was reminded of this earlier in the week, when a...
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