Career Path

When You Don’t Want to Lead at Work

April 26, 2010 By Melissa Cooley 9 Comments

In many professions, the expected career trajectory is that, after a certain amount of time in a position, you are ready to become the leader of your department. You should want to become the leader… Uh, you do want to be a leader at some point, right? No? Really, you don’t? Well, guess what? THAT’S [...]

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Why Don’t You?

January 11, 2010 By Melissa 4 Comments

On the Please Feed the Animals blog, there was a post about gaining the confidence to pursue your dreams. It reminded me of how my husband made the segue into supervising… When he and I started dating so many moons ago, he was a welder. One night when we were talking about our respective careers, [...]

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Surviving

December 10, 2009 By Melissa 2 Comments

Remember Aron Ralston? Back in 2003, Ralston went went hiking and climbing in a Utah canyon. During his climb, a boulder moved and ended up trapping his hand between it and the canyon wall. After being stuck for five days, he realized that the only way he was going to live was if he amputated [...]