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Yesterday, I accepted a job as a third grade teaching assistant at a wonderful San Francisco K-8 school. It feels incredible to have something lined up for next year and to have made my first step forward into a chosen career. However, as described in my last column, I only arrived at it after a long and looping walk, which had ...

Congratulations! You’re pregnant! Now what? Be happy. For thousands of women, conceiving can be time consuming and long process. If you are one of the lucky ones to get pregnant right away, even better… maybe. Hopefully, while you were trying to conceive you put some thought into how being pregnant would effect your career and life in general. If you didn’t, ...

It seems that a growing craze these days are these places where you can put together meals in little baggies and containers and then take them home and make them at a later time. I have to admit, this did somewhat intrigue me when I first heard about it from a friend, but I didn't really do much in the way ...

Finding the next great job may mean making a move, especially as the economy cools. Forbes.com recently ranked the top cities for jobs in 2008. Its rankings were based on unemployment rates, job growth, income growth, median household income, and cost of living. I read the list with great interest—then started looking for other kinds of information on these cities. In ...

Almost every working mom I know who works full-time has told me that she would love to do her job but on a part-time basis. And according to a survey that came out last year, "nearly 80% of women want to work part-time":http://pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women. Part-time work seems to be an ideal, most coveted arrangement for working moms - one that would allow ...