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by Sara McDermott Jain
December 1st, 2012, was the two-year anniversary of my starting the No MFA Project.
A little over two years ago I was working in marketing at a publishing house, dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. The job was unsatisfying and I felt trapped. The only way out that I [...]
Adrienne Rodney is leaving her job as Brooke’s assistant and decided to talk about what she is doing and how she is going about it.
NSoW: So you’re looking for a new job. Why are you leaving your current one?
Adrienne: When I started working for Brooke almost three years ago (April 2010) it [...]
by: Brooke Allen
About a decade ago someone in accounting, or personnel, or wherever, asked me for job titles.
I said, “We don’t have job titles in our group.”
She went away.
Soon she was back saying that a new policy required that we have job titles, and that I had to give them [...]
by Steve Amoia for No Shortage of Work
Playing baseball was Joe DiMaggio’s first real job as an adult. He had worked at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco with his father, and sold newspapers as a boy. Neither job held much appeal to him.
Few first jobs in life could have [...]
How my grandparents thrived during the 1930′s.
by: Brooke Allen
The Great Depression was very good to my Grandparents, and it wasn’t a matter of luck so much as the approach they took to their circumstances. What they did, you can do.
In the mid 1920′s they met on a date in [...]
by: Joan Ramirez
So many people talk about what is wrong with teaching today. I am going to tell you what is right. Last year, I completed my student teaching in a wonderful elementary school in New York City with several exceptional special education students in the third grade. One in particular has [...]
A book review by Steve Amoia
Carmine Gallo is a respected business journalist by training. He created a company, Gallo Communications, that provides presentation, media training and communication skills advice for some of the world’s most recognized brands. His first book about the iconic CEO of Apple Computer, entitled [...]
by David Iscoe
It’s pretty much a truism that good workers take their jobs seriously. Employers want people who are invested in the work and care about what they’re doing. If you don’t care about what you’re doing, it’s hard to be at your most productive.
What is less [...]
by: Adrienne Rodney
Unemployment is rough. Not knowing when the next job will come; stress over paying the bills; judgment from others – it’s an unfortunate circumstance too many of us face.
We are led to believe that searching for a job is your full-time job. Not having an office means [...]
Book Review: by Steve Amoia
Seth Godin is a best-selling author and well-known public speaker. His latest book, “Linchpin,” reinforces many of the concepts that we promote at NSoW: Being different, creativity, innovation, generosity, personal networking and passion for your work. Mr. Godin teaches us that indispensable people, who [...]
And They’re Coming to Teach You Things You Need to Know
By: Victoria Goldenberg
Could No Shortage of Work (NSoW) have existed 20 years ago? The costs in time, money and labor to gather and direct members and run a publication might not have justified the [...]
by: Adrienne Rodney
You think you got it bad? Try waiting in a mile-long line where a callback is like hitting the jackpot and landing a part is like going to heaven.
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First Lesson: CHANGE THE GAME
A book review by: Steve Amoia
Pat Williams, who was assisted by Mike Sielski, has written a book about a famous American baseball player. (Baseball has the same popularity in the USA as cricket enjoys in Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies.) More importantly, this is the story about [...]
A Book Review by Steve Amoia
This physically small book delivers a very large message from one of our most admired and analyzed business leaders: Warren Buffett. He earned his billions by investing in conservative companies with strong balance sheets, along with passionate managers and subordinates who focused on the long-term. His [...]
Learn how to have purposeful conversations with anyone, and the job interview will be a piece of cake.
by: Brooke Allen
When Darya Gorlova met Lola Falkowski through No Shortage of Work, they did not just chat; Darya interviewed Lauren about her business, LolaFalk.
Why is it that lazy people accuse people who are helping themselves of acting out of desperation?
I was waiting for the uptown #6 subway train in New York City when I overheard a conversation between two men in early middle-age; one standing and the other sitting.
The one sitting said “The market sucks; I [...]
by Steve Amoia
When I think about my first job, it taught me lifelong lessons. All of us have to start somewhere in the world of work; however, many of our first jobs are not mentioned on resumes, C.V.’s, or applications as we gain professional experience. We may feel that they don’t relate to [...]
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