Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week.
Links
On Freelancing:
8 Things I Love About NOT Being Self-Employed: Interesting. A view from a person who did the freelance thing for awhile and jumped back into a full-time career working for someone else. I’ve followed Nicole Crimaldi Emerick’s journey for years (love her blog, Ms. Career Girl) and it’s exciting to see how her career has changed and evolved.
The Best Freelancer I’ve Worked With: Love this! Tim Murphy, founder of ApplyMate shares details about the best freelancer he’s ever worked with (spoiler: it’s the amazing Alexis Grant) and explains WHY she impressed him the most out of anyone he’s worked with, thus far.
On Careers:
Workplace Distractions: Here’s Why You Won’t Finish This Article: According to this Wall Street Journal article, office workers are interrupted (or self-interrupt) roughly every three minutes. Wow! Author of the article Rachel Emma Silverman explains how some companies are trying to solve this problem.
On Life:
Zeitgeist 2012: Last week, Google launched their annual year in review video. Gives me chills every single year, and this year is no exception!
On the Holidays:
9 Holiday Gift Ideas to Take Your Career to the Next Level: Still looking for a holiday gift for the young professional in your life? Maybe my latest Brazen Careerist post will help!
Holiday Blues:3 Ways to Cope When You’re Lonely This Season: With social media, it’s easy to feel like your holiday traditions and activities aren’t as special as everyone else’s. This Daily Muse article by Michelle Hoos outlines three ways to combat the holiday blues.
On Social Media:
Exciting news! The Next Web reports that Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all of your tweets. I’m not able to download my archived tweets yet, but I cannot wait until I get this feature! I’d love to see what I was tweeting about five years ago.
Goals
- Find one more 5K to run before the end of 2012. Today, I ran my 11th race of 2012 and I just need one more to reach my goal is running 12 different races this year. Any suggestions for races in the Philadelphia area in the next few weeks?
- I wrote my first freelance article for MuckRack.com last week and I’d love to work on a few future posts this week.
- Must. Finish. Christmas. Shopping.
Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!
