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It’s your Friday good news! 1. The company I (30s, she/her) work for was hit hard by the “great resignation” earlier this year and hiring went through a dry spell, and we had a pretty bad gender skew in both, taking us from fairly balanced to predominantly men. As part of a panel of employee resource […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I wanted to share some Friday good news, after using your advice to successfully leave a toxic job. I took a job in 2018 after being laid off during a corporate merger. I mainly accepted the job because I was desperate for benefits and steady income and have been half […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I’ve been waiting to share this good news for over 6 months! The very small company I was working for is one I could have submitted a novel about, full of red flags that I didn’t fully see at the time: the owner says we’re all a family, that we’re […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I’ve been following your site for a few years now and I don’t think I’d be where I am now otherwise! I worked for the same toxic employer for almost 10 years and I wouldn’t have realized exactly how bad it was without reading your website. Looking for a […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I’ve been reading AAM for years, and put all your advice into practice when it came to improving my resume/cover letter and preparing for the interview (behavioral questions!). And, most of all, for the first time I truly understood both how an interview can be a two-way street, and what […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I’ve been unemployed since last July, after 15 years in the performing arts. For obvious reasons, the field has been 90% shut down since last March. Due to the pandemic, my husband and I had to postpone, then cancel our wedding/reception, our landlord decided to sell the house pushing us […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I recently left my job in the Middle East after four years to move back to the U.S. The environment was austere and dangerous and I was looking forward to returning to a normal life. Last fall, I reached out to a member of senior leadership with whom I had […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I’ve been a long-time reader of your site, and an infrequent commenter because I’m spending my time reading your advice and what the commentariat have to say about it — I’m still fairly young and I’m autistic, so I’m aware that I’m at a disadvantage when it comes to […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1. I don’t know if you realize just how frequently your advice actually turns people’s worlds right-side-up again, often when they didn’t even realize things had become unsustainable from many angles. I am a primary example, as reading your advice over the last three years has helped me not only […]

It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. My husband had been applying for internal jobs at his company for over a year. He had a few interviews but they ended up going with other internal candidates. He had recently applied for several jobs that all went up […]