Back to work
posted in Pregnancy, Career Advancement, Working Moms, Flexible Work Arrangements, Celebrity Moms |
That title get you? Did you actually think I meant that I was going to start working instead of blogging? Ha! No seriously. I looked back at some of my recent posts and realized I’ve taken a bit of a vacation from writing about what really gets me going - the ups and downs of working motherhood (with a bit of celebrity thrown in.) But this week I’ve had some good conversations with some “experts” and read some interesting articles I need to report back to you all on. Hopefully this will tide y’all over until I can “live blog” at BlogHer. (Didn’t that sound all big and bad?) Here goes:
You say Ay-quent, I say Ah-quent:
So today, I spoke with Denise Nash of Aquent (it’s pronounced ay-quent, not ah-quent) - the staffing agency for marketing professionals. Denise is the “Director of Work-Life” for the organization and helps Aquent with sponsorships, build awareness, etc. The company has been around for 20 years and staffs marketing experts on a project basis. They’re huge - 70 offices in 16 countries! Most of their “consultants” are MBAs with 5-7 years experience. I checked out the website and it seems like they have some really promising opportunities for people who want to be staffed on short-term-to-permanent jobs.
Does process work with part-time?
Yesterday, I had lunch with an old professor of mine from graduate school. (By old, I don’t mean age, I mean I went to school awhile ago.) Over the biggest Chinese chicken salad I ever saw, we discussed my current part-time work situation. He began to tell me his dealings with a major major corporation and their adherence to the Six Sigma practice. He challenged me with this question: Can you work in a part-time capacity and still fulfill the tenets of Six Sigma or some other corporate mumbo-jumbo process? Of course, my inital reaction was “yes,” but really, I’m too brain-dead to fully figure out the answer. What do you think? I told him I’d get back to him with a response. Stat. Or else he said he was going reverse my grade point or something evil like that.
Some gratuitous B-celebrity working mom news:
It’s been awhile since we’ve gotten good “celeb” working mom news. But I read two stories today that caught my eye:
Did you know Lindsay Davenport is back on the courts? She must be super-human because she only had a C-section like 6 weeks ago. I mean, she’s not playing in the U.S. Open, or anything, so she’s not that cool, but still. My favorite line from the article: “It’s [her return to work] turned into a bigger story than I’m comfortable with.” See? The media is STARVING for a new celeb working mom. You go, Linds.- My favorite news anchor is preggo!! Campbell Brown, who dresses way too conservatively for me, but who’s no-nonsense attitude I love is with child. And she’s got a new job at CNN, where she will be eight months pregnant when she goes on the air! Talk about interviewing for a new job knowing that you’re already pregnant. And I love that she thinks she’ll be ready to go back to work by Feb. 5 for big-state primaries. That’s so cute, Campby.
That’s all I got for now… toodles til’ BlogHer!
Tags: Campbell Brown, Lindsay Davenport, working mom, Aquent, Denise Nash, BlogHer
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