There’s a confession I have to make, and it may startle some and confuse others. I’ve taken up knitting. That’s right, I’m a knitter. If you told me a year ago that I would be even remotely interested in knitting, I wouldn’t have believed it. I practically break out into hives when I enter [...]
Tag: Elia Sheldon
Glad You Asked by Elia Sheldon
Recently, I was in the unenviable position of having to pull data on floor area coverage for all of the houses within two hundred feet of mine. The data was needed as part of our effort to convince the town to approve our request to build an addition onto our home. It was a wintery [...]
People + Tasks + Mission + (The Basics) = Love Your Job by Elia Sheldon
There’s lots of advice out there about how to find a job that you love. To be clear, I’m not talking about a fantasy job. Let’s get real people. You have to work with what you’ve got from a skills perspective combined with many multi-related events and activities converging together to establish what is actually [...]
E-mail Pet Peeves by Elia Sheldon
When I was in fifth grade, I received a homework assignment that I found very challenging at first: Write a three page essay about a favorite pet peeve. How was I supposed to write an essay about something that I didn’t have? I eventually found one, however, once my mother reminded me about how angry [...]
Career Advice for My Younger Self by Elia Sheldon
Dear Just-Graduated-From-College Me, I’m sure you are very excited to start your first job out of college. On top of the move to New York, you must be pretty nervous too. In an attempt to make the next weeks, months, and years easier on you, this is your future self writing to give you some [...]
The Au Pair Option by Elia Sheldon
When my husband and I decided that the time was right to have children, we had many discussions about which childcare option we’d select. From the beginning, we’d known that we would be a dual career family and that childcare would be something for which we’d have to budget significant sums of our income. After [...]
Three Important Coaching Relationships by Elia Sheldon
The only sport I played growing up was piano. I learned a great deal from my piano teachers. But because I missed out on more traditional sports (for many reasons, which I won’t bore you with today), I never had the opportunity to experience coaching until I entered the workforce after college graduation. My first [...]
Administrative Professional’s Day
Today is Administrative Professional’s Day. If you work in a role related to administration in any office, we know that you often wear a dozen hats in your organization. For those of you working in other professional capacities, your work is often enhanced by working with an administrative professional in your office. Even those of [...]
Not Another Annoying Presentation by Elia Sheldon
It usually happens after lunch, which makes it even more difficult to bear because I’m already fighting off a post-lunch food coma. The lights are dimmed. The iPhone is silenced. A microphone is tapped in the front of the room. The speaker is introduced. By about five slides in (usually less), I can tell that [...]
iPhone Apps for the Busy Womanby Elia Sheldon
Here are my recommendations for iPhone apps, gleaned from my experience as a woman who has a lot to balance: work, home, family, friends, and everything else. I’ve categorized them into two groups: business and leisure. Please feel free to respond with your favorites; I’m always on the lookout for more iPhone apps that can [...]
Don’t Mess with the Admin Mafia by Elia Sheldon
The first lesson of great importance that I learned in my professional career was from a partner at Price Waterhouse (prior to the merge with Coopers and Lybrand) during the first week of orientation for me and thirty of my peers who were kicking off our training to become technology consultants. He said that we [...]
Hassle Lite Business Travel by Elia Sheldon
To the uninitiated, business travel evokes scenes of luxury hotels, generous expense accounts, and the opportunity to explore a new city on the company tab. But the reality of it is that you’re limited by your company’s expense policy as to where you may stay and how much you spend on meals. You’re also usually [...]
Sound Advice: Accept Help Graciously
I was deplaning (I didn’t think it was a word, but it really is) and it was my turn to unload my carry-on from the overhead bin. A man next to me hoisted it down. I smiled and said, “Thank you.” I really meant it. Ten years ago, I would have been irritated that anyone [...]
Women in Business: An Introduction by Elia Sheldon
Two months before marrying the man of my dreams, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. We’d just moved from Manhattan to the Boston area and I’d decided to use that opportunity to change careers. By my fourth day in my new job as a technical recruiter, it was clear that I wasn’t going [...]
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Cover Girl Stephenie Meyer: An Interview (Part One) with Deb Smouse
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Live Alone and Like It The Classic Guide for the Single Woman
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My Plan to Thrive while I Deal with Grief this Holiday Season
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