Mom-spiration: How my mom sparked my entrepreneurial bug

Mom inspiration

//Me and mom in Disney World a few years ago. We wore those ears for three days.// I actually wrote this post last year to appear on my company blog, but this Mother’s Day I revisited it because I thought it was important to share on Job Offers & Bad Boyfriends. After all, I use this blog to talk about what inspires and motivates me. From …

Tips for becoming a badass freelancer

Tips For Becoming A Badass Freelancer

//Photo Courtesy: HerCampus// Full disclosure, I probably watched Sex and the City way before I actually knew what the show was about. At 15, I barely understood every other line from Samantha Jones. But still, the depiction of Carrie Bradshaw’s carefree (and for the record, unrealistic) writing career stuck with me. Even now, when I think of a “freelancer” the image of SJP writing away in her …

Are you being “you” at work?

You At Work

//My Work It Web business partner and I being our silly selves// //Photo Taken By Christina Slaton// The other night I went to an event featuring women entrepreneurs, and saw Jennifer Hyman, founder of Rent The Runway, speak. Over the last couple of years I’ve attended more panels, conferences, workshops, and keynotes than I care to remember. And while I like you, my readers, too much to …

What hard work looks like: Wisdom from my grandmother

Zora Gonsalves

//Meet Zora Gonsalves// This weekend I celebrated my grandmother’s 80th birthday. On the plane ride home I couldn’t help but recount the many ways this woman has impacted my life. You see, what’s even more remarkable than her turning this milestone age and looking the way she does, is that when I went through my post archive, I realized I’ve talked very little about her …

What’s your love language?

What's Your Love Language

  //Photo Courtesy: tumblr.com// Let’s talk about love languages. Before I begin let me preface by saying that I’m the girl who very proudly used to get her compatibility advice from astrology books. Of course, that was my early twenties – I have evolved since then. And while a piece of my adolescence may die a little when I say this, I now realize zodiac …

When the job you’re dating wants to see other people

When The Job You're Dating Wants to See Other People

//Photo Courtesy: cosmopoltian.com// Companies just suck sometimes don’t they? They work you hard, give you praise, invite you out to happy hour drinks, and make you feel all comfortable with the team…only to what? Decide they want to invest in other people when things get serious? Yea, let’s talk about that, shall we.  I don’t share this experience a lot, but to hell with it, …