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My MBA: Paying thousands of dollars to mess around with Photoshop

January 8, 2012

I had my first MBA class this weekend.  It’s an intro management course that spans two weekends, designed to jump start you into the program.  Right before class, I got an email from my professor.  It included the following: “Create a Personal Coat of Arms.” What kind of sick and twisted European feudal system are we running over here? What’s next, tithing? Or maybe we have to manually recreate the 95 Theses with our own personal beliefs on indulgences?  No ...

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I’m getting an MBA. It won’t make me smarter. But it’s a smart move.

November 22, 2011

Serious businesslady pose.   Sooo.  Remember when I was taking and struggling with my my microeconomics class? Well, I decided I’m not doing a master’s in economics anymore somewhere after class number five, because it is simply too much work in a degree that will not get me where I want to go. And where I want to go is not only Big Data, where I work now,  but project management, because managing teams is something I am good at ...

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Why Every Woman Should Know How Her Blog Works or,Why Women are still marginalized.

November 7, 2011

This Saturday, I attended WordCamp Philly at beautiful Alter Hall, which is a conference for people who hate spending time outdoors. Also it’s for people who enjoy using WordPress to build their website. (Like me! This site is built with WordPress! Also with sweat and tears.) See?  Here I am in my natural habitat:   There were four tracks, one for beginner users, one for intermediate, one for WordPress developers, and one for WordPress designers.  I consider myself intermediate, maybe at the edge ...

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What do you want to see in a President?

September 7, 2011

Something I think about a lot is what it takes to be a good manager, what kinds of things you should provide a manager so they can excel, and what it would take to be a good U.S. president.  I’m pretty good at managing and organizing groups of people, as Mr. B would grudgingly tell you, so the art of management and leadership is interesting to me on a non-buzzword bingo level. Which is why I did not watch the ...

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Wearing engagement rings to interviews

August 23, 2011

Suzanne posted a link from Huffpo advising women not to wear engagement rings to interviews. To which I said, And trust me, I’ve interviewed A LOT over the past year. And to which people replied, basically, “Don’t give other people a reason to judge you.” Although there was one HR pro that said she didn’t give a crap. But is this really a problem?  Honestly? Or just another way to give women anxiety about how they present themselves in the ...

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