Living Around Archives

Of all the things you need to get a job, in many cases the most debatable and argued over piece may be the cover letter. I have talked to [...]

July 18, 2016

You will meet three principal characters in today’s time together. Their stories are stories of listening. And what they heard, changed [...]

July 17, 2016

Artists, art lovers and arts journalists, like me, have long been drawn to the East End of the south fork of Long Island, known [...]

July 14, 2016

At this point we hopefully have a bird’s eye view of the current hiring landscape (see our previous story on job boards) where we see [...]

July 11, 2016

One person’s perfectionism is the other’s neurosis. So let’s stop quibbling over how to label it and figure out how to fix it. It [...]

July 10, 2016

The last time I saw Paris was 1984. Heartbroken after a 6-week European journey with Monsieur Wrong, I stayed with dear friends and mostly [...]

July 6, 2016

My role as an English as a Second Language (ESL) volunteer is to inspire adult students to better communicate, but it is my students who [...]

July 5, 2016

Before we dig into the topic of job boards and how to approach them, let’s look at our own approach to an online job search. Thankfully [...]

July 4, 2016