The 40 Year Co-op
Way back in 1980, a young student from Northeastern University joined The MITRE Corporation as part of Northeastern’s cooperative education program. His father, who also worked at MITRE as a group leader on programs...
Category: Career
The Week In Review
Sometimes I feel a little guilty about not having a job. You know – guilt over not fulfilling my potential, not accomplishing anything concrete, and not earning an income. That feeling strikes me when...
Independence Day
As usual, we spent the 4th up at the Lake. Not with the crowd of old, but with a smaller group of new. Nicole’s boyfriend Connor was there along with Heather’s friend Lexi. Not...
What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?
One of my first blog posts was about this TED video: In the video, the presenter (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO) made three recommendations for women pursuing a career: Sit at the table Make your partner...
Layers, Part II
In the United States, women hold 19.2 percent of S&P board seats. A lot of people think this is a little odd, and there is increasing pressure on corporations to come closer to balancing...
Lives Not Lived
I recently read a post on Facebook by a woman who was feeling down because she was not making the world a better place. My first instinct was to tell her to lighten up. But who...
Dusting Off Old Skills
Recently I was able to make use of skills I previously demonstrated at work. This past Friday, my mother-in-law was told by the rehab facility that they would be moving her out of her private...