Pragmatic Agilist

Sheryl Sandberg has become internationally famous in 2013 (and even more fabulously wealthy than she was before) by publishing her bestselling book, Lean In . Corporate women everywhere are now encouraged to perambulate on a perpetual forward pitch, which adds even more difficulty to the challenge of wearing pumps every day.  One is tempted to accessorize with a rescue helicopter dangling a safety wire. Awesomely, this is from:  http://www.bunionadvisor.com/blog/2012/05/knowing-how-to-walk-in-heels-may-stave-off-foot-pain/ On the one hand, I love that we are talking about equality for women again .  It isn't as though we really succeeded completely before we gave up on Second Wave Feminism , even from a legal perspective. Seriously, the US wouldn't pass the Equal Rights Amendment?  What (medieval) century do we live in here? And clearly, we are even further behind culturally than legally, when we see that women in the US can be making 80 cents to men's dollar i

No matter how much you like your current job, you should always have a Plan B.  And if you're finding that job hunting has suddenly become Plan A, this advice may be even more timely. From:  http://thecreativescribbler.com/2011/05/26/life-of-a-job-hunter/ What You Think You Should Do: Find a list of jobs somewhere. Apply for those jobs. You can do it this way.  But this method might make you crazy and sad.  By the time a hiring company posts a job to their web site, and especially by the time they post to Monster.com or Dice.com, they have committed their hiring process to recruiting professionals who will do agonizingly specific resume screening, word-by-word, on a lot of resumes.  Hundreds or thousands. For each 50 resumes you send out, you will be lucky to get one non-automated response (drafted and sent by a human), and even more lucky to get an interview.  Chances of getting an actual job this way are microscopic, viewed in terms of submitting a single resume to a