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Queered & Careered: Manifestation Journaling (Or Using Woo-Woo Talk to Claim the Life You Want)

During this challenging time, use your journal to throw your dreams into space. Imagine what could be and use that energy to fuel your long days.

By Tiara DeGuzman| May 20, 2020 | 3 Comments
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Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home

Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.

By Tiara DeGuzman| May 6, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Practice Career Cocooning

Inspired by a caterpillar, cocooning describes a time when you are forced to wait and prepare for the transformation that is taking place inside you. Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dealing with career cocoons right now. Here’s how to cope.

By Tiara DeGuzman| April 21, 2020 | 6 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Career Anxiety

We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.

By Tiara DeGuzman| April 8, 2020 | 1 Comment
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing

Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.

By Tiara DeGuzman| April 1, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work

Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.

By Tiara DeGuzman| March 10, 2020 | 4 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Tackling the Monster of Career-Envy

‪Jealousy will always be there. There will always be someone that you or society perceives to be smarter, stronger, or more competent than you. We must get curious about our jealousy – become friends with it, and then tell it to be productive or get going.‬

By Tiara DeGuzman| February 25, 2020 | 6 Comments
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Queered & Careered: 12 Ways to Cope at Work When You’re Just Not Feeling It

For those days when you wake up for work and a repeated round of “fuck this” is going through your head.

By Tiara DeGuzman| February 11, 2020 | 8 Comments
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Queered & Careered: In the Meantime (Or Things to Do While You’re Unemployed)

One of the most insidious effects of unemployment in a capitalist society is that we start to doubt our worth if we are not tied to a job. Our daily resilience IS productive and we deserve to celebrate ourselves, employed or not.

By Tiara DeGuzman| January 28, 2020 | 5 Comments
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Queered & Careered: 5 Networking Tips for the Awkward Queer

Are you an awk queer who cringes when you hear the word “networking”? This one is for you.

By Tiara DeGuzman| January 14, 2020 | 5 Comments
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Queered & Careered: The Many Times Informational Interviews Have Saved Me

Sooo, what are you waiting for? Make a list of ten professionals who inspire you and reach out to them to connect today. We have the tools to uplift and provide protection for each other, and informational interviews are a great way to start that process.

By Tiara DeGuzman| December 31, 2019 | 3 Comments
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Queered & Careered: 5 Ways You Can Use Tarot at Work

Just because, let’s be honest: your workplace could use some queer witchy energy.

By Tiara DeGuzman| December 17, 2019 | 4 Comments
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Queered & Careered: How I Use Journaling to Resist at Work

Need a ride or die bestie at work who will listen, affirm you, and help you process that recent microaggression? Turn right to your journal!

By Tiara DeGuzman| December 3, 2019 | 12 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Sussing Out if An Employer is Trash

When you’re queer, every career decision can have consequences for your emotional, mental, or even physical health. Planning ahead, finding support, and asking critical questions about the people and companies you’re “dating” is central to your survival.

By Tiara DeGuzman| November 19, 2019 | 9 Comments
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Queered & Careered: Things to Bring and Leave Behind

Queered & Careered is a column that offers tips and tricks on how to navigate career development as a queer person — from job searching to career inspiration to dealing with straight nonsense in the office.

By Tiara DeGuzman| November 5, 2019 | 29 Comments

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