Posts Tagged ‘Career’

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The Precise Behavior of Exceptions

by Seraphine Khorana on April 12th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
The Precise Behavior of Exceptions

Did life turn out the way you thought it would be when you were a kid? What you expected is probably what you got (unless you were unlucky); and if you didn’t expect much, that is also probably what you got. But no matter how well you planned (or didn’t plan), be honest– your life didn’t turn out exactly like you thought it would happen. For better or worse, one thing is certain: There were surprises and exceptions along the way.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Quotation from Dennis Wholey

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau

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Abandon Ship!

by Seraphine Khorana on April 1st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Abandon Ship!

Here’s my plan: I want to be practical. I want to work in the writing/photography/graphics field, but my background is in banking/economics/finance. I need to be completely honest with myself, but I’m torn. Do I make the risky choice or the safe choice? Tell me– What should I do?

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Quotation from Janis Joplin

I have been struggling for many years in pursuit of a career in opera and am finding that it’s the people who have money behind them who are getting places, whether or not they have the best voices… So, yes, I’d marry for money at this point. After all, having the career would make me happy.
Quotation from “pvlstar” on iVillage.com

While $1 million or $2 million may sound like a lot to people making $30,000, it’s hardly enough to transform someone’s life or make them “rich” by contemporary billionaire standards.
Quotation from Robert Frank, Marrying for Love of Money

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Sticky Pants

by Seraphine Khorana on March 27th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Sticky Pants

I’ve been flying by the seat of my pants. It has been a month since I’ve been told my department will be shutting down in six to twelve months, so time is precious. I’ve decided to take the Series 66 Registered Investment Advisor examination. I don’t know if that’s really what I want to do, but it gives me another option to pursue careerwise. And that means my updates to Encore Seraphine (and my time online) will be less frequent for a few weeks to a month.
Yes, I’m doing this on purpose. I love you all, and thank you for understanding.

Happy were she could finish forth her fate
In some unhaunted desert, where, obscure
From all society, from love and hate
Of worldly folk; then might she sleep secure.
Poem from Robert Devereux, A Passion of my Lord of Essex

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Kick Boxing

by Seraphine Khorana on March 4th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Kick Boxing

It’s like being in high school and knowing I’ll graduate in six months. The real world is out there and I’m wondering what I’m going to do. People tell me: “Some day you’ll look back at this and think how wonderful it was.” Ha!

Richard Vernon: What did you want to be when you were young?
Carl: When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon.
Richard Vernon: Carl, don’t be a goof. I’m making a serious point here.
Quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club

Andrew Clark: You don’t have any goals.
John Bender: Oh but I do.
Andrew Clark: Yeah?
John Bender: I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.
Another quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club

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On Being Boiled Alive

by Seraphine Khorana on March 2nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
On Being Boiled Alive

I’m trying to be sensible, but going to work after being told I am going to be laid off is weird. They want me to be committed, but how can you commit when you can’t trust your employer any longer? For another thing, I feel rejected, vulnerable and powerless. I’m being dumped. I want to get angry, but I can’t because I’m suddenly walking on thin ice. I want to grieve, but I can’t do that either. I have to go to work tomorrow; I’ll go to work until they tell me not to come in again.

Are you being given impossible jobs with no chance of success? This one is underhanded, which is why it’s so popular. The company may need a big reason to give you the boot, especially if you’ve done everything right and are the life and soul of your department. Enter the impossible task. “Ahh Wilkins, we need you to expand our new line of warm, alcohol-free beers to construction workers.”
Quotation from Paul Michael, You’re Fired! 20 Signs That a Pink Slip is Coming

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Bothered

by Seraphine Khorana on September 16th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Bothered

This memo was in today’s interoffice email: “If you don’t use your sick days, you will forfeit them at the end of the year.” I naively thought sick days should only be used if you really are sick. Heh.

McKenzie: I tried to talk to her in the coffee room she’s totally not having it.
Tom: Maybe she was just in a hurry.
McKenzie: And maybe she’s an uppity, better-than-everyone super skank.
Quotation from the movie (500) Days of Summer

Dwight Shrute: Dammit, he put my stapler in Jell-O again!
Quotation from television’s The Office

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The Giant Step

by Seraphine Khorana on September 8th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Giant Step

Some people are ambitious. They take big steps. Others are content with whatever life offers them. They take smaller steps. Either way, being valuable and productive still means being able to move your feet. The first step, that giant one that gives you direction, is always the hardest one to make.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognizing the riches when they come your way.
Quotation from Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed (Time Magazine)

P.S. No matter what it is you do, if you do it well enough, you can make money at it.
Final note: The wine industry is very, very big in California.

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Destitution as a Career Choice

by Seraphine Khorana on May 12th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Destitution as a Career Choice

It’s no crime to be poor. But persistent poverty
and oppression causes despair and hopelessness.

The United Nations Childrens Fund (unicef.org)
The State of the World’s Children 2007 (unicef.org) (pdf)

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave… In
failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not,
as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a
set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied, but written off as trash.
Quotation from John Berger, In Keeping a Rendezvous

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