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...people asked why and I didn’t really have a good reason,” he said. “I figured if I’m able to do this, I might as well do something good out of it, so that’s why I’m trying to do a little bit of fundraising for a good cause...
Rejection is a fact of life. I can handle rejection. What I can’t handle is a higher-stakes combination of being stood up by a date without a plausible reason and being given the cold shoulder by a group of middle school girls for no reason. Believe it or not, many of us have been rejected before, in ways more painful than by a job. Yes, it can be disappointing, frustrating, heartbreaking, and may even draw tears, but rejection is not always a bad thing, and can definitely make you a stronger person. So, dear employers...
...build it, they will come,” he says. “The technology exists, and there is no reason for students not to have access to that technology to make their lives easier...
...heed the Obama administration’s wishes and honor the existing laws nominally banning unpaid internships, the number of opportunities available to students would dramatically decrease. Unpaid jobs would not suddenly change into paid ones; especially in this economy, the jobs would just go away. There is a reason why small companies with little capital are more likely to offer unpaid internships than the capital-laden behemoths of Wall Street...
...base your happiness on career success, which is what we did. Neither of us ever signed up for the happily-ever-after myth or the you-complete-me idea. We were always independent people coming together. But both us really were driven in our careers. That's another reason I think so many people responded to that essay. In our current economy, so many people's relationships are taking hits because of career failure. Isn't it interesting that the minute I let go of my career and of my marriage, that that's when all this abundance started...