Penelope Trunk announced the relaunch of BrazenCareeerist.com in a post on her blog today and I’m pretty excited for her and her partners in the start-up. I immediately joined the site and added some content to my profile. This new social networking site is self-described as “a career management tool for next-generation professionals.” What LinkedIn is for gen-X, Brazen Careerist will be for Gen-Y. But Brazen will be better. Because it hopes to score big where LinkedIn is lacking, which is in the actual easy of conversing with others on the network.
LinkedIn is socially awkward for me where Brazen stresses the accessibility of others in the network and that real conversations will be taking place. On Brazen your ideas are just as important as your resume, which makes for a more level playing field between career newbies and experienced professionals. I can already tell I’ll be more in my element at Brazen. Check it out and decide for yourself!
I usually refrain from writing posts that make me look silly, because isn’t “silly” the opposite of “professional”? But the story of this morning is just too good, and too long for a Facebook status update.
So I decided that this would be the day that I make my first attempt at roller skating with Bama dog. She’s extra randy this morning and I had a late night. The image in my head of me holding the leash while she runs at top speed pulling me along and getting all her energy out without me having to exert anything was too good to ignore. I’d been thinking about doing this for months, but fear had been holding me back, and good things come from facing fears, right? So on with it.
It didn’t surprise me that Bama was a little bit afraid of the skates. I thought it would work in my favor — like she’d run from the skates, pulling me along, and staying out of the way of the skates. She did run out in front of the skates at first, but after looking back at them with punky expression on her face a few times, she all of a
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