<![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm your girl. Male-dominated industry, in an area of the country that is also somewhat conservative. However, worked my ass off and manipulated, schemed to get a great position at a powerful firm. Still dealing with daily BS. I hold my own and kick ass, in 4 inch heels and lip gloss. The heels and lip gloss? Just because I can.

she_knows

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> OBSESSED with Julie Roehm. Classic example of a woman making the mistake of thinking she can exhibit the same incompetence, nepotism, and lusty malfeasance with her juniors as a man without getting pilloried for it. her boy-toy was HOT, too.

mitchgetmybunny

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Hmmm...not sure what qualifies as "successful" but I did manage to be smart enough to diversify my skills while I was in the mortgage industry so that when I saw the subprime crash coming (oh...about 3 years ago) I could get the hell out of mortgage and into IT before the layoffs started. I've been hired, promoted, snubbed, flattered, and just about everything else.

I've always managed to run before the lay offs started, so I've never had the pleasure of THAT particular experience. I have also had the joy (okay...that may be a stretch) of completing a bachelor's degree while working full time because one day I realized that no matter how much more experience I had, if a guy came in that had a degree, he was going to get the job. I had to try to level the playing field a little bit. I have also had the privilege (again...a stretch) of learning many things the hard way...including be careful which coworkers you party with (and how you party with them). THAT was a painful lesson. Blech.

AllergyQueen!

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> are there any other nurses up in herr?

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @emmablack: Thank you for the advice (I was indoctrinated into the church of networking in school but 2, 3, and 4 are going to help me immensely) and for the time you took to write all of that.

I think Jezebel networking could be a giant ball of awesome, snark, and TMI.

Dalinae

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @jakesprincess: Whether or not you end up writing the career advice, I could use some wisdom from another lady defense contractor.

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> So how do you throw your hat in the ring? I'd love that job, and oddly enough, I am "in between jobs" as of Thursday!

In my short 26 years, I've been:

The Editor-In-Chief at my college newspaper - left when I thought I was graduating college.

A Customer Service Representative/Cashier at Acme (Albertson's) - left when I got a full time reporter position.

A Staff Writer for a weekly newspaper in Cape May County, NJ - got fired because I didn't take the job seriously enough and was not responsible.

A Cashier at Target -was in desperate need for a job, but left after 2 months because I absolutely hated it.

A Customer Service Leader at Wawa (a chain convenience store in NJ, PA, MD, DE and VA) - hated every second of it but stayed while I finished college and it offered the chance for promotion to the corporate world. Left when I got the promotion to the corporate world.

Corporate Trainer for Wawa Inc. - a temporary position where I traveled to Wawa stores to train associates how to use the new inventory computer system Wawa was upgrading too.

Course Designer for Wawa Inc. - they extended me beyond the end of the temporary project in the hopes that I could find another position, then passed me over for the position. My final extension ends this Thursday. I'm designing training material to be used in the stores.

In my spare time, I author two blogs. One is a personal blog where I write about anything from my own feelings and experiences to politics and such. The other a weight-loss/health/recipe blog where I track my finance's and my weight loss and discuss health issues and share recipes.

Sign me up!!!

ewray4381

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I think I fit the bill...I've been laid off, freelance, corporate and finally landed the promotion. Oh, and I also worked for careerbuilder (doubt that helps my case). Still, I have a kick ass job that I love where my ideas are heard and I get to be creative most of the time. It helps that I can interview like a mutha.

sakimotokitty

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @beckyiva: Don't take my title from me! I've been fired 3 times, laid off once, and have never promoted. If it wasn't for the "success" and "well-paying" requirement, I would totally apply.

groupie

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Hmmm... Anyone else "just a waitress?" I bake cupcakes for my restaurant too, and heard I was getting "promoted" with more baking hours, turns out to be more "demoted" 'cause now my good $$$ shifts are gone. I've put a lot into this place, most senior employee, not age, but time spent, life blows right now, working breaks my heart. Just when you're happy with something simple, shit changes. Sorry, just venting. I wish I had/wanted a career like you guys.

Tiny-Moves

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: But you can't be mediocre at being mediocre. Ergo, you aren't mediocre... at something.

ZonzoMaster

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Ooooh. Me Me Me, please! I've had 53 jobs (really) due to my constant search for better, and still managed to go from nude art class model, mall ear piercer and party clown to prestigious legal fellowship in under ten years.

Plus, does having your Pentagon boss show up at the picnic in a "Hooters" hat and tell the women in the office that Supreme Court dinners were a great place to meet men count as working outside female-dominated work in crap jobs?

Sign me up- I'll dish even better....

eleanorstrousers

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm trying to convince my GF to do it, but her advice would mostly consist of, "Don't be a douche. Don't be a pussy. Don't be a dumbass or let people walk all over you (and bitch and moan about it, natch)."

So, basically, yeah...

SBJ

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> man i never wanna graduate.

sacapuntas

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @currerbell: Wow, I was going to put myself forward (I'm an executive producer of TV shows), but I never got a pay cut for having a uterus. That sucks. Let me know if you want me to go "talk to someone" for you- I'll bring a balaclava and a tube sock full of D batteries.

La Madrugada

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I've dreamt of being a fierce lady-CFO ever since I was a preteen. Count me in as very interested in this piece.

bernat

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Hmmm... former sex worker turned therapist.... probably not.

sparklytoesfairydustbutt

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @heathermylove: Math pre reqs is proof that if there is a God he is a hateful man. Very hateful indeed. Sigh I know why im at college. Becuz I mostly have always dreamed I would be since I was like 5 years old. But seriously like all I really wanna do is be successful and not go in debt becoming successful from student loans. And maybe go on the real world or some realitv tv show. Apparently a bachelors degree isnt good enuff cuz all the advisers on campus are stressing GET A MASTERS, go to grad school, get a PHD. Blah blah blah.

Im just gonna teach 4th graders how to pass the FCAT(state standard test) and marry up. Seems like the easiest way out.

Sweat87

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @spielarama: Decide what company you most want to work for, and why. Is it your dream job/company? If so, learn everything you can about the company. Find out the name of the person who would be your boss. Find out if anyone you know knows them, to see if they can help you get in touch with them. Email them directly if you can. Ask for an informational interview. Be patient. Persevere. Stay focused.

If getting your dream job isn't possible, focus on the job that will get you to that dream job. Don't dilute your energy trying for "any" job--know your worth and stay focused on what you really want. The more you can articulate what it is you want, the more likely you are to get it. Sorry if this sounds like The bloody Secret but it has worked for me.

emmablack

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> That should read Jezzies' and "at the top" in my initial post. Dang Shiraz...

emmablack

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sweat87: I am in the same boat with ya. I can't pick a major to save my life. I enjoy learning, but hate some of the things that go with it. Such as math pre-reqs.

The HZA.

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @bowlingfordollars: Word, sister. What's your story?

@Dalinae: Have spent time there, love Oslo and the country, have friends there, fantasize about Norway's 11-month-at-full-pay (or whatever, it's appropriately generous) national maternity benefits plan. Also have a friend there who works for a big Web services firm. (Hmm, how's that for potential Jezebel networking... Maybe they'll start a job board next.)

Anyway: you're in IT, right? No idea what your role is, but I'd suggest:

1) Calling up clients you worked with on projects at your last job, say you're consulting at the moment and would love to work with them in a freelance capacity--you're really busy but loved working with them on X project, and as it so happens, you've also been working on X, X and X types of projects--the exact kind you know they need people for. (You know from your time on the job what they need, or you've researched it.)

2) Building on the friendships or even acquaintanceships you've made along the way. Call old contacts to say hi, ask them what they're up to, let them know you're available. Don't call them if you didn't have a genuine connection with them. Remember, you're not going cap-in-hand--you're a professional they need. Companies always need people they know can get shit done, get them out of a jam, get something shipped on time. And even though contractor rates are higher on a per-hour basis, they're actually cheaper for most companies than paying wages + bennies.

3) Know what you can do outside your "work" skill set and do it. Can you translate? Write? Design web sites? Plan parties? If so, do it. Let everyone who needs your talent know you're available.

4) Don't be afraid to actually do something you don't know how to do. Fucking GO for it. Say you can do it then knock it out of the park. If you believe you can do it, you can--that saying reeks of cheese but it's the finest Stilton.

Hope that helps and good luck! Love to hear the other Jezzie's advice...

emmablack

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm really excited for this new feature. I work in a totally male dominated industry (computer hardware support)and I have alot of questions and hopefully some useful input once the feature is up. Reoccurring features like Pot Psychology and Crap email from a dude, plus the delicious random posts have me addicted to Jezebel

MademoiselleMartin

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @solaana: "I'm not qualified but now I'll say ten things that will demonstrate to you how fantastic I am and make you snort red wine out your nose 'cause I'm damned witty as well." That is SUCH a woman thing. I can do this. I am qualified. I am successful. I am well paid. I love to tell people what to do with their lives. And by people, I mean bitches.

Lizawithazee

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sweat87: Then you go to grad/professional school and do it all over again.

[Expletive Deleted]

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Have you thought of asking Penelope Trunk? She seems to fit the bill.

juniper

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Will the Jezebel career advisor hire me as a personal assistant? I need some college extracurriculars so I can get a job in two years.

SeraSera

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sweat87: I'm a believer in the liberal arts education. When you study something as limited as health information management, you are limiting yourself to jobs in that area. When you study something like literature, you are learning analysis skills that can apply to a broad range of jobs.

But I also recognize that sometimes people need to study in an area that has an almost guaranteed job upon graduation.

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @somnambulent: I think I might become you in a few years.

K2

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Im currently a student who cant decide on a major. Started out poli sci, now I want to be health information management. Even though all I really want to do is be a history teacher and open a cookie ship of some sort. I see no end in site to college. Not sure how anyone ever finishes. Sigh...

Someone please give me some kind of advice. Whats it like when its all done?

Sweat87

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @emmablack: I was recently laid off from an entertainment marketing agency and looking for tips on getting my foot in the door in the door.

Seems you are a perfect person to talk to!!! Any help?

spielarama

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> i'm 24 and i've been laid off. and managed to find a new job in less than 2 weeks using my professional connections.

ok, so this doesn't really qualify, but it makes me feel good about myself. :-)

lermanzo

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> OMG. I just got home from two hours at some temp agency, testing and interviewing. I've been unemployed for two weeks now and I'm completely lost. Grr. I can't wait for the first post! Thanks Jezebel :)

nolongerinacubiclestillawhore

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sybann: I said she/he....or you can make sure he makes enough money that you have your own wing.

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I love my job but this one sounds awesome.. I'm a wildlife biologist who works two jobs.. one for the dnr and one for a private company. I'm also going to start vet school in the fall.
But I have had a lot of odd ball secretary/reception/office manager jobs.. would I qualify?

GuyismyGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Lymed: Only works if you can stand a man in the house. I'm all Helena Bonham about menz in teh house...

sybann

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sybann: I second that motion, and will bring booze to doubly ensure nothing will be settled.

hoorayforthefword

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @sybann: Actually, the trick is to convince your significant other to enter a career where she/he makes a shit load of money so you can afford to do something you love.

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @hoorayforthefword: You said it! I move that we form a mentoring commitee. That way we'll never get anything settled and thus not ruin anyone's life!

sybann

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @rhody: Baby, just figure out how to make money doing someting you love - THAT is the secret.

sybann

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> How about getting two mentors, one from the for-profit sector and one from the non-profit sector?

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @hoorayforthefword:

We're a hip, happenin' bunch. I'm so proud of us.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @misstr-ASSshan-ASS: Talk more! you are interesting.

The HZA.

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> You know, reading all of these comments just reminds me that this is a pretty fucking amazing, talented little group of ladies (and gents) that we've got here at Jez.

Sorry for the mush-fest, but you people make my jaded heart a little more optimistic, and I say thanks for that.

hoorayforthefword

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @emmablack: Oh, have you worked in Scandinavia? I left the US after my BS and a year of work and worked for a bit in London but I'm really set on Norway ('cause IT represents there, yo). Do you have any general advice on how to get odd jobs to feed oneself during one's career job search?

Dalinae

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @TheFormerJuneBronson: you. are.a.lifesaver. thank you soooo much! i'm done with work so i'm off of jezebel for the day (afer spending 8 hours at the computer i can't bring myself to go on after work) but thank you thank you thank you. i shall take your words to heart.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: That's quite the list. Bonsai trees, eh? Was it for an eccentric millionaire?

I wanna know more.

The HZA.

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: That's a very good decision. History's a tougher market than English, too, because English has successfully lobbied colleges on the "writing for social justice" angle, and kept its courses in the degree requirements, whereas history hasn't, or hasn't been as successful at it. Make sure you can (and do) teach surveys, even if you have to take jobs in school that you think may be beneath you (and pay accordingly). Those are your bread and butter. Cast a wide net when applying for adjunct jobs, too, and apply before you have your MA. A desperate school will hire you anyhow, as I found out. And make sure you teach a wide variety of students at more than one school, if possible.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: hmm. I do hear that the counseling center is rather free with those prescriptions....

coisepants

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @emmablack: Oh honey, we need to talk. Former network executive here.

BowlingForDollars

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Smackdown: That would kick ass. Embarrassing confession: one of the reasons I teach is that I get the job. Get course description, plan assignments, plan teaching, prep for teaching, teach, do grades. When I worked at other kinds of jobs, office jobs, I never really knew what I was supposed to be doing, let alone what to do to stand out, go above and beyond, and eventually advance. I'm terrified of my upcoming museum internship because I'm afraid they'll find out that I don't know how to take initiative or immediately grasp the scope of a job. I'm just going to have to tell them that this is an issue for me so that maybe I can overcome it. But meanwhile, I really don't get where other people's work comes from, and how they decide what to do every morning when they sit at their desks. I know I'm a freak; I just have no idea.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Can I also just plain give a shout out to mentoring organizations in general? Everyone here has something to give - some advice to share, some networking to offer, etc - and there are some great organizations that can help you put them to use. If you're in NY and you're a writer, for example, there's Girls Write Now. LA has a similar one, too. And of course, Big Brothers Big Sisters, etc.

My point is - y'all have gifts to share, even if it's not as the new Jez columnist :)

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @coisepants: Benadryl and Zantac.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @TheFormerJuneBronson: thank you! i actually thought long and hard about museum work, but in the end i'm pretty sure teaching is where i want to end up. also, i'm 100% sure i won't be paying for my degree. it's just too damn expensive, so i made a promise to myself that i'll only go if i get funding. which is of course making the wait even more nervewracking.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Hmm. I made it from zero (never had a job in the field) to television executive in just over four years. When I began in the business I decided to start at the (producer--anyone with balls/ovaries and an idea can call themselves one) because I felt (correctly) that I was too old to start at the bottom.

Even though I wasn't sure at the time where it was I wanted to end up (which is where I am now, and I want to keep moving up when it's time to take on a new level of challenge) it became increasingly clear as I went along what I had to do: be gutsy, be curious, be willing to try new things and do anything, build relationships and take risks that may make no money. Those no-money years were fucking scary, but that was exactly when I built the relationships that later paid off.

I've hired, fired, been laid off and had my position eliminated. I've worked in all major media platforms. I've negotiated salaries and dealt with talent, agents, lawyers and shareholders. I worked in Manhattan and elsewhere--won't say where I am now, obvs. I've got a hell of a lot to learn.

I did a master's degree at 30, which started me vaguely on the trajectory I'm on now, but between that and my undergrad degree eight years prior, I spent most of my time with a backpack on, travelling the world until my money ran out and financing each trip with all kinds of weird jobs, of which waitressing was the most lucrative by far.

Fun times, both the mad wild twenties and the starving-to successful (so far) thirties.

emmablack

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @katastic: Ditto.

shiningstar loves her president-elect!!!

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @CorporateTool: holy cow! she sent that to the whole org?!

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> ...and of course I meant feature. The future is the thing I'm freaked out about.

coisepants

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I am apparently, full of ideas, but what would be interesting is maybe instead of the same person with a column, or something, you could have a couple of real, honest stories about some women from different professional backgrounds telling their story. You know, in a real, honest-ass way, not a stupid, Cosmo-Everyone-Is-Samantha kind of way. Like, say, a housewife, an older person, someone who works in a female-dominated industry, public service, expats, etc. I'm sure you guys won't have any trouble finding them out in that big-ass world, and it would make for some damned good reading.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> So excited for this future! Just thinking of undergrad internships makes me break out in hives! (Any advice for that?)

coisepants

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: Well, good luck! I hope you have lots of acceptances to choose from. At that stage, I would just say that you should pay attention to developing skills that are marketable outside of academia (research) and inside academia (teaching) because sometimes those will be your best means of support. The job market's brutal for tenure-track because the boomers aren't retiring or dying. Relocation is probably going to be a reality. And if at any time you find that you would rather not do tenure-track, don't pay a dime more for your PhD (finishing on their dime is okay). Get out and get training in what you really want to do. I was uncertain about TT from the start, but I didn't quit as soon as I realized I'd be better off to get professional training as an archivist or museum worker. It was an expensive mistake. Also, people assume I flunked out, which makes me defensive and unpleasant.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> um, is this the resurrection of anonymous lobbyist?

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Please let me help. I've had TONS of experience with everything from domineering supes to sex harassment issues and more. Plus, I mentor students at my alma mater.

mizj

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> That HBR article is spot on. I worked in equity research, had a phenomenal boss...Too bad he relocated.

velvetjones

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> oooh me pretty please! i could do the non-profit version-- i've paid my dues in a male-dominated portion of the performing arts industry. along the way i've been promoted, laid off, ignored, rewarded, hit on, scapegoated and everything in between.

lackeywanna

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> It would help if I could spell 'saturated' right.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Ah, television and publishing. The stories I could tell.

Now as a freelancer, my life is perfect, so far.

BowlingForDollars

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @mocena: It is the largest form of idiocy to NOT respect the gatekeeper. Lesson one grasshoppers.

30 years in broadcasting has taught me that I need to be quick on my feet, have at least 3 months salary in the bank, that most men are dickheads and will lie about everything ("we'll never fire you, you're too versatile!"), and keeping your mouth shut is a good idea - especially when you are/were right.

Oh, and never throw away the boxes. Break 'em down and store 'em. You'll need them as soon as you think you won't.

sybann

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Five years ago, I would have jumped at something like this. Then, just before I was promoted, I was outsourced, demoted, and laid off (in an 8 month span). I took the severance pay, re-evaluated my life, and now I still work in IT but I no longer consider my career my life and I have absolutely no promotion ambition. I'm finally at the point where my job's just a job and I'm trying to decide on my next venture.

phrygian

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I had to talk to high schoolers last week about getting into design. I wanted to say "RUN! Don't do it! Half of my graduating class is technically unemployed. The market is staruated. RUN!"

But I stood there and told them it was really cool. And that my ass was pretty lucky to be here.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I've been around the block, but I don't what I'm talking about is what you're talking about. Such as.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I started my third career track 3 years ago.
14 years - Medical Technician/Optician
11 years - Stock Broker
3 years - Emergency Management.
ALL of my jobs have been in male dominated occupations. I have been fired, "let go" and told that I should leave the big accounts for guys who have families to support. It is an absolute truism that women have to work harder to "prove themselves". Mentors have been scarce myentire working life. I am very determined, have an Irish temper and can swear like a truck driver when provoked. That has actually helped! I also seem to be a *little* older than the average poster here (53). I would be glad to participate in this worthwhile endeavor.

TongueOfAnAsp

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> let's see, 24-years-old and have been a piano teacher, lab tech in a marine biology lab, office bitch, Quizno's bitch, call center bitch, ESL teacher, random job working in a power plant, freelance writer, a mysterious job working for an Israeli in Buenos Aires who I think was laundering money through the business, and am now a travel consultant for a fancy schmancy company in BA...I make a fortune for Argentina and get free trips to places like Ecuador and such, but I am like poverty-level for the US...also work from home in pjs most of the time b/c hungover/lazy so no politicking, sadly (or not) :D and am also assistant editor (mildly puffed up title imho) for an English mag here...I like reading everyone's jobs b/c I'm totally a Jezebel stalker who never comments!

misstr-ASSshan-ASS

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @TheFormerJuneBronson: well, i finished applying for a history ph.d last month, and now i'm waiting to hear back. any tidbits would be appreciated, actually. since i'm not there, yet, i guess i don't have any specific questions.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm a designer (chick job) who's worked for internet companies (male field) since 1996. I've only gotten my game face on in the last few years, so I look forward to a Jezzie career columnist.

TWSS

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @currerbell: That blows. A friend of mine went on clerkship interviews while mountainously pregnant, and got tons of horrified "you'll put it in DAY CARE?!" questions. No clerkship for her. (Until she reinterviewed the next year and didn't mention a child, that is.)

Meanmllemustard

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @ineffable.me:

I was trying to be humble, but yes my job is kickass. And with this experience, it can only lead to more kickass-edness.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I can't wait for this! Tutorials on asking for raises and proper compensation, please.

Also, I totall agree with Smackdown: I don't want fairy tale advice, but proper field reports.

I'm so excited I've been drawn out of my commenting hiatus. Yay!

Ms Pointy

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @currerbell: Ugh. What a mess. Good luck--I hope you get the fuck out of there and a new fabulous job SOON.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Um, yeah, I've been at my job at an advertising agency for three years, which is about 2 years longer than the agency standard. I'm a gonna ride this thing out as long as they don't give me shit about my Jezebel habit.

LadyNo Fondles Sweaters

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Twilly: You dont work a "pretty cool job for a woman" you have a kickass job. period. designers are the best,

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @badenbaden: You can read the full text here, but long story short, she explained, in excruciating detail, how depression, bi-polar disease, misdiagnoses, and cancer killed her marriage.

The story is sad, but her absurd use of caps, and detailed descriptions are what make it crazy. Also the fact that it was completely unsolicited.

CorporateTool

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Will there be any career advice on how to use pure Jesus Magic to become a designer under Colleen Atwood. I saw Sweeney Todd this weekend, and God is she good.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I could totally do this. I work in IT, and boy howdy is it a male-dominated field. Half the time I have to prove I know my shit to dudes who think that girls can't do computers, even though I have a well-established reputation as an expert in my subject area.

The large corporation I work for has a women's group that talks about women's issues in the workplace, but a lot of the meeting topics are like, "omg, how can we juggle family and career?" and I think that while that's a valid issue for women in the workplace, there are more immediate issues like why the fuck guys have such a shit attitude towards women in this industry.

I'm not bitter.

dirtyfez

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I really need career advice because I not successful at all and I want to find a new job. I am smart and hardworking, but my negotiating skills suck and I don't toot my own horn nearly enough. So even though I am a man, I will be reading the posts.

raoul j raoul

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @ForeverBlueGirl: I can, however, tell you all about Titty Tantrums. You know, when two alpha females clash? And like, you totally don't want to because you're the nicest person ever (you think?). But yet the other alpha is afraid you'll like, steal her husband.

Or, I could tell you about bosses who have zero people skills and tell you that you are incompetent and stupid on a regular basis. That's a great way to grow your employees!

Hmmm...I work in a predominantly female industry now.

ForeverBlueGirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Archetype:

I've worked under a couple crazies when I was a freelancer. One guy thought I was conspiring against him with the only other female in the office. Thought we talked about him when we went out to lunch.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> need a medical/science advice girl? ok.

need someone business-minded? ughh.

mova

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @badenbaden: @TruculentandUnreliable: Yeah, and the funny thing was that everyone at my review (myself included) practices some amount of employment law. They even tried to make the cut retroactive. Anyhow, it pretty much sucks. All my peeps are screaming for me to file a PDA (pregnancy discrimination act) suit, but for many reasons (none of which go the strength of the case), I probably won't. You just can't do that without completely changing/ending your career trajectory. I just want to cut my losses and get the fuck out - but I will tell you, conducting a secret job search and the prospect of interviewing while mountainously pregnant is kind of daunting.

currerbell

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Sorry, wrong gender.

TGY, Next!

TGY

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'd rather have it not be someone who is like, Crazy Retired Successful because that shit is all like, The Secret. If you guys do this, I'd think the ideal is someone who has worked their way up, has been working for a while, like, at least 20 years, has dealt with some moves, and can speak to the changing nature of gender in the work place as well as the nature of office politics without being an advice column.

I don't know. I can relate to someone who's worked their way up to a six-figure salary, not someone who worked for 5 years at Goldman because they graduated from Harvard and then retired off of one big bonus payout.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @thatonegirl: We need a "Jezebel, JD" thread.

Meanmllemustard

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Hmmmm.

1. Bagel shop
2. Starbucks
3. Newspaper
4. Marketing

That sums up my six years in the work force. Probably not enough depth there to draw upon.

ForeverBlueGirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @maggles:
I hope so, that's what I've been aspiring too

I don't think working down by Wall Street with all those jackasses has helped...

HoneyLush

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @rhody: When you find out the answer to that one, let me know. I'm truning 33 in a few weeks and while I am successful I am not following my passion.

jakesprincess

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @PinkSoxHat: sounds like a good idea... except i'm not even sure i want to be a lawyer, as ridiculous as that sounds since i'm in repayment on my law school loans. i forgot why i went to law school in the first place shortly after my first semester and have been wondering every since.

thatonegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> And now I have "Let the River Run" stuck in my head.

I think I sort of fit most of the requirements, but not in enough thoroughness that I'd want to be The Sole JezeCareerist. You should form an advisory committee to The One True Career Mentor, yo!

Meanmllemustard

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: Here's some grad school advice: get a degree with an actual job track. Seriously. If I ever get another Masters, it will be in a field where a career is actually waiting for me.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Wait, I have to have a career?! Adulthood sucks more and more everyday.

Kidding! I would love some advice. Let's start with this one: what should Rhody do with the rest of her life?

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: What would you like to know? I have information on liberal arts only, really, but I've been up the Ph.D. mountain and back. Fairly recently, too. And I'm currently enrolled.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Miss Pelled: Yes, much better. Also, I work for a small female-started publishing firm, though we're sadly working our way to being male-dominated.

KnitSandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I am the QUEEN of job hopping! And I've come pretty far pretty fast by doing it... I think I'll email. Though I only have a bachelor's degree. Am I educated enough?

BeckyIva

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> How about a 40 year old who has had bosses evil and kind of both genders and has coached all her friends on how to negotiate to get the best package before you take a job (because afterward, no one is gonna do shit for you)?

KillMeNow has a stalker named Yolanda

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @TheFormerJuneBronson: actually, grad school advice would be much appreciated on this end.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @thatonegirl: Ooh, can we form a "Future Jezebel Lawyers Who Will be Really Great Attorneys if You Just Hire Us" club?

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @CorporateTool: Oh gossip! And I loved that book.

hammerimissu

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @knitsandwich: I prefer "Jill of all trades."

Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @currerbell: Damn. I don't think the reasons are mysterious. Fucking lame.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I could do this. I work in defense (a male dominated field) for a major contractor. I am usually one of the few women on a team, though I have moved orgs a few times and have been on HR teams (with more women, 10 to be exact, with the a sole male as our boss!) and on engineering teams as a tech writer (only girl on the contractor team at a missile bomb dump at a Navy/AF installation doing a hardware review).

I've done evrything from temp at lots of companies to work for small business and now working for the place I work now.

I also have a MA in Women's Studies which is in no way realted to ANY of the jobs I have had outside of grad school. It did help for my RA-ship IN grad school, though.

I've done it all and speak all the company lingo. Just ask me! I can speak in whole sentences with acronyms and value-added terms that align our company's values with our diverse network of experts. ha.

I've learned a lot of lessons over the years and would be happy to share.

jakesprincess

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Smackdown: I own a construction trades firm so I feel ya. That said, I worked with mostly women at one point and I totally hated it. I enjoy the sausage, no backstabbing.

The only advice I could give is I have 0 turnover because I pay more than what's standard, pay for health insurance and education. That is all I have.

SouthernComfort

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I work in a male dominated field and am successful. But frankly, there are days when I don't know how I got here. It just worked out that way. Ya know what though? I would bet my bottom dollar that I make less than my male counterparts - and I'm not shy about demanding more money. It sucks.

sugarbritches

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @LadySkittlehattington: I'm in publishing too, only I work for a small female-owned firm. My boss and I used to work together at another company, and eventually she got tired of the BS and started her own firm. It's pretty fantastic. I can't imagine working for a "big company" again (even though I'm happy to take on any project they'd like to send our way).

Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: Yes, me too! I maintain that "Jack of all trades" is not an insult.

KnitSandwich

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: You're my age? How did I not know this?

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @currerbell: ummm...you're the lawyer, not me, but that certainly sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen!

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I've worked in DC for 7 years and haven't killed myself, and have not become (too much of an)asshole. Do I qualify????

Mando323

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @maggles: It does for me!

screamingannie

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> well i've been an architect, interior designer, web designer and currently work at a studio as a Computer Graphics (CG) artist. aka visual effects monkey. What does modicum of success exactly mean? I'm typically the only woman in the room and have been promoted but my mouth has gotten me in trouble more than once. Hmmm.. not sure if I totally qualify for good advice. I have been around the block though.

elusya

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> i haven't been around the block, so to speak, so i can't do it.... but i would LOVE to have a career mentor/jezebellian to turn to for advice! i'm a J.D. who has passed the bar and has been temping fo-eva... pretty much clueless!!

thatonegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm 28 and have a rockin' job in public relations (motto: not as glamorous as you think it's going to be). Well-paid is debatable, but I fo' sho' know how to do some networkin' and politickin'.

Flackette is a Red State Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I love how everyone's like, "I'm not your woman, but I've got opinions!" I am not that woman either, and I don't have any opinions (other than being a secretary sucks), only the observation that Working Girl is awesome (Harrison Ford!) and that Sigourney Weaver's character went to Wellesley. Shout out!

solaana

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Ummm, being a female lawyer who just got an out-of-the-blue 20% paycut for mysterious reasons (I am pregnant - a male associate who billed less than me got a raise - he isn't pregnant), I would put forth that I might be qualified for this.

currerbell

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @CorporateTool: that's a great idea. I put together an event with 85 Broads at my old job, and one of our speakers was a 30 year old woman who was RETIRED. Because she made millions in the few years she worked in finance.

And inquiring minds want to know about Janet's email, please!

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @Twilly: I am in your industry, except in visual. Not many ball-scratchers in the creative fields......

I am very much looking forward to this column, though!

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I have a degree in rocket science (yes, really) and I've held 23 jobs including photographer, bookseller, actor, spotlight operator, riding instructor, receptionist, graphic designer, and computer technician. My career advice consists of how to juggle 7 W2's on one tax return, not counting freelance (it involved a lot of jack daniels and a TI-82 calculator).

somnambulent

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Oh god, male dominated industries. Technology and Finance. My life is a giant sausage fest.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I work in advertising and once had the worst boss of all time (power trippin', Napoleon complex guy) who I had to literally tell off - a bunch of times. Nightmare. Now at a large company and lovin it.

But I'm only 25 - does that disqualify me?

RyanB

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm beginning to think that publishing was a mistake, sooooo....

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> As someone who works on Wall Street (!) I'd suggest contacting someone from 85 broads, the women's business networking organization. Just not the founder Janet Hanson, as a few weeks/months ago she sent out a TMI e-mail that was batshit crazy.

CorporateTool

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @blackbirdfly: Ditto, although I have held a shit ton of jobs.

katieb: in charge of the war on the poor.

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> So, successfully spending your 20's inside the bottle. That counts as a career, right?

Maggles

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Yeah. I'm so not qualified. I'm only 24, and I've managed to rack up a resume' of REALLY odd jobs that's longer than I am tall. Nude model for Life Drawing class? Check. Caretaker for a privately-owned collection of 224 Bonsai trees? Check. Marketing bitch for Clear Channel? Done. Wardrobe bitch for Dirty South rap video production company? Yeah.
I could go on, but I'll spare you. Suffice to say mediocrity at everything is my greatest strength.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm a designer, and I work at a pretty cool job for a woman (product designer for a major mall retailer). I got hella lucky. My largest concern right now is what band poster to buy for my office. I'm thinking a pink Ditty Bops poster.....we shall see.

Twilly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @ineffable.me:

"Let the River Run" is on my morning mix.

And as much as I hate the Sigourney Weaver's character, I wish I had the bravado to pull off the line, "I've indicated that I am receptive to an offer, I've cleared the month of June, and I am, after all, me".

rachystyle

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> @PinkSoxHat: Or due. A basic grasp of English may be what is preventing my career success.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Guess how much I would love to have that job....too much. But im pretty sure no one wants to hear from a student/social worker about how to find a job.

rubesmanubes

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I'm not all that successful, but I certainly know how to kiss ass.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Unqualified due to the "success" requirement. But if you need someone who's failed a lot and been to several colleges and graduate schools, I'm your girl.

TheFormerJuneBronson

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I could def use some career advice. Starting with how to get a job so I'm not defaulting on my loans the second they come do.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Not qualified due to "well paying" requirement.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Darnit, no one ever wants the opinion of a receptionist... *cries*

mocena

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> Sorry, kids. I'm an actor. My career advice consists of TRY NOT TO STARVE.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Hate Your Well-Paying, High-Profile Job? Be A Jezebel Career Mentor!]]> I would love to do this, but I still have a while to go before I reach that point. But I do want to say that I love Working Girl more than is probably socially acceptable. That is all.

ineffable.me

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