Career Happiness / Inspire / Work
by Murphy · Published July 25, 2014 · Last modified December 20, 2020
Most people, at some point, fantasize about being a freelancer, working on their own and coming and going as they please. Usually the conversation goes something like this: “Boy, I wish I could work...
I used to work with a woman who’s favorite saying was,“Never pray for patience because you’re just asking to be tested.” The older I got, the more I understood what she meant, which was, the...
Authors / Career Happiness / Inspire / Work
by Murphy · Published April 20, 2014 · Last modified February 21, 2019
(Erma Bombeck, February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) Hiking into the hills with my dog Buddy gives me a chance to empty my mind of worries and focus more on things like who...
 “The road to success is always under construction.” ~ Lily Tomlin Not too long ago I was invited to give a talk to the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) at Boise...
Losing a job can be a grief-filled experience, rating high on the list of stress producers. The emotions you feel may be crazy as you pick your way through each unemployed moment of...
I just had a birthday, and let’s just say I’m closer to entering retirement than I am to entering college. For readers who may be way younger than me, you might not “feel” what...
by Murphy · Published December 11, 2011 · Last modified September 24, 2018
“All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.”  ~ William Shakespeare (photo source) Often...
“Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.” ~ Homa Bahrami, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business I will never forget the time I left a job...
Here are a few questions I’ve been thinking about over the past year or so. I admit, the older I get the deeper I go, but I think it is good to sometimes take...
“Getting fired is nature’s way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” ~ Hal Lancaster, in The Wall Street Journal I want to talk about job loss. These...
by Murphy · Published December 31, 2010 · Last modified December 30, 2014
“The road to success is always under construction.” ~ Lily Tomlin I’ve always felt there is a “path” that I am destined to follow in my life and if I just found that path...
Career Happiness / Inspire / Work
by Murphy · Published December 28, 2010 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Today’s prompt is from Tara Sophia Mohr: Achieve. What’s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you’ll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write...
Career Happiness / Essay / Inspire
by Murphy · Published November 20, 2010 · Last modified May 22, 2018
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will be become the person you believe you were meant to be.” George Sheehan Success… Is it a place we arrive at, or is it made...
“Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.” ~ Homa Bahrami If you have left your full-time job and found yourself piecing and patch-working an income together...
Career Happiness / Essay / Inspire
by Murphy · Published October 23, 2010 · Last modified May 22, 2018
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry, and stop to smell the flowers along the way.” ~Walter Hagen This past summer I was puttering around in my garden  —  pulling weeds, snipping...
Career Happiness / Work / Writing Tips
by Murphy · Published October 18, 2010 · Last modified June 25, 2014
Unending smoking, drinking, office sex and smarminess…oh, yes, Mad Men, your craziness of the 1960s is a world totally removed from today’s social and political correctness. But still, the basics of getting through life remain...
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