by Mary Carver | Jul 28, 2015 | My Life
I don’t have an office. Or even a desk. I work at my laptop, on a TV tray, while curled up on the left side of my couch. It’s not ideal. Also not ideal? The left side of my couch kind of sags. Because I sit there too often. So for the last several months...
by Mary Carver | Feb 23, 2014 | Faith Life, My Life
I was contacted by a recruiter about a job opportunity a couple weeks ago. It was so random – and a little confusing, since the salary was tempting enough to make me forget for just a minute how much I love my current job and how important it is for my job to...
by Mary Carver | Oct 7, 2013 | Faith Life, My Life
Last time I was seven months pregnant, my boss called me into her office on a Friday afternoon. As many of us know (and as I recently heard again on a rerun of How I Met Your Mother), late afternoon on a Friday is often called “fire o’clock” for a...
by Mary Carver | Aug 8, 2013 | Faith Life, My Life
Several years ago I was reunited with a dream. Just like the communication theory course I’d taken as a junior AND COMPLETELY ERASED FROM MY BRAIN (until a snippet of a movie we analyzed triggered the bizarrely buried memory), the moment of career clarity I...
by Mary Carver | Apr 15, 2013 | Faith Life, My Life
Last fall a friend of mine decided to go back to work after staying home with her three kiddos for a few years. When we talked she was excited to go back to her field and busy lining up childcare and schedules and game plans. So I was shocked when she emailed a couple...
