A new way of looking for jobs
Oh, hi friends!
Most job descriptions are gross. They’re soulless verbiage sucked dry of intrigue or excitement. (I have feelings about them, obviously.)
And if you’re looking for a job or career change, it’s a little hard to get enthusiastic over bullet points.
That’s why it might be helpful to put aside these job descriptions and instead of asking yourself, “What do I want to do?” ask “Who do I want to be?”
So work backwards. Think about someone whose career you admire.
What catches your attention: their flexibility, autonomy, salary, the respect they command, that they work across different industries, free Kashi in their break room?
Even if you don’t work in the same field as this person, you might uncover some ideas about what’s important to you.
Then when you’re looking for a job, seek out ones with those qualities, instead of retrofitting a dull job description into your life.
May you attack your Monday with the same passion with which Liza attacks this song.
Sometimes you're happy
And sometimes you're sad
But the world goes round
And sometimes you lose
Every nickel you had
But the world goes round
Sometimes your dreams get broken in pieces
But that doesn't matter at all
Take it from me, there's still going to be
A summer, a winter, a spring and a fall
From Saudi “Pleasure Wife” to the Founder of ROXY
He was a Saudi billionaire with a boat. No, a yacht. One so huge it would eventually be owned by Donald Trump.
She was a model living in Paris and navigating an impossible, sexist industry while battling memories of a traumatic childhood.
He had multiple wives. She was one of them.
That’s how one chapter began for Jill Dodd, a model and fashion designer who at 21 became a “pleasure wife” in the harem of Adnan Khashoggi, an arms dealer and power player who was 44 at the time they met and in control of unimaginable wealth, that included 12 estates, a ranch in Kenya, lavish parties, and enough name recognition to eventually land him on the cover of TIME.
They met at a party in Monte Carlo, and she found in him the safety and comfort she lacked growing up in a dysfunctional and sexualized household near Los Angeles with pornography strewn around, sexual comments lobbed her way by her father, and groping between her parents at the dinner table. Later she would learn how to to stand up for herself. (And Khashoggi would go on to be involved in the Iran-contra scandal.)
Read my Q&A with Jill Dodd—probably one of the most intriguing conversations of my life!—over at Women in the World.
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Love, Kara