Backstage and Now the Boss: ‘The Only Girl in the Building’
The New York Times: Jennifer Diaz first stepped onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House at 11, as an extra in “I Pagliacci” and “La Bohème.” For the next three years, it became her second home, as she regularly visited her father, who is still the Met’s night crew manager after more than three decades.
At 19, she began working there as a stagehand, typically the only female member in a 28-person crew.I Let A Company Scan My Naked Body To Get The Perfect Suit
FiveThirtyEight: In a makeshift room no bigger than a phone booth, standing on a plush carpet that had hosted who knows how many naked men before me, I could see the vertical array of cameras surrounding me on six or eight sides. I stood where I was told, put my hands at my sides and pressed a button. The walls burst to life: three camera flashes in front, three to the side, three behind my exposed buttocks. The light spun around me, detecting how my shoulders sloped, how my hips popped, how my chest caved. After just a few seconds it was done.The Follow-Up Email Every Job Seeker Needs To Know How To Write
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Fact No. 1: After you’ve interviewed for a job, hiring managers don’t always get back to you in the time frame they told you they would.There’s Always More to Do
sightlines.usitt.org: Shortly after I was named theatre department chair in 2005, I walked past our main acting studio before evening rehearsals and noticed the trash can was overflowing. I knew the building janitorial staff would not be back until morning, so I grabbed the can and took it out to the loading dock to empty into the dumpster. As I carried the full can out, I ran into a student who asked me a question that has stuck with me ever since.
He said, “Hey Mark, do you have to take out the trash because you are the new department chair, or are you the new department chair because you take out the trash?”How to Look Smart in Meetings
99U: In most languages, the world “meetings” loosely translates to “death by a thousand cuts.”
The reality of corporate life is that most meetings fall somewhere between “this is a waste of time” and “we could have easily done this over email.” And yet, if there is an important meeting and you’re not invited, you get very mad and demand to be invited. Then you get there and you’re like, This sucks. Why am I here?
Sunday, October 09, 2016
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