Back during my TCNJ days, I took this brilliant Advanced Writing class with the brilliant Burton Klein. The most important thing he taught me was that a unique and well-written cover letter could be my biggest asset. Since then, I’ve found myself called into interviews by people who were more intrigued by my cover letter [...]
Archive for September, 2008
September 29th, 2008
How To Write Your Way Into the Best Darn Jobs Ever
Steph Auteri 
Posted in correspondence 
Tags: cover letter, letter, pitch, pitch letter, query, query letter 
7 Comments » September 24th, 2008
Reevaluating Your Life
Just this past weekend, I attended my husband’s 10-year high school reunion. I was nervous but, really, it’s a lot less scary to be at a reunion where no one knows you than at one where you feel the need to prove yourself to tormentors past. Still, it got me thinking: If I were to [...]
September 23rd, 2008
How To Juggle Multiple Careers
Over the course of the past 10 years, I’ve juggled on-campus jobs, part-time retail work, temp work, full-time work, freelance projects, and internships, all in varying combinations. At first, in my earliest post-college years, I considered full-time work to be the obvious end goal and, for a time, was quite proud of myself as I [...]
Steph Auteri Posted in balance, finances/income Tags: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, flextime, freelance, full-time, intern, internship, juggle, multiple careers, part-time, telecommuting, temp, volunteer 1 Comment » September 23rd, 2008
Product Placement: Plug It In
At the moment, the items I have that plug in with USB cable are my scanner, my digital camera, my webcam, my iPod and, of course, my flash drive. As I have a mere two USB ports on my computer, located on the back of it, swapping these items in and out can be a [...]
September 18th, 2008
Freelancedom Survival Kit: An Addendum
Just the other day, I posted about the must-have items for the freelancer on the go. Later that day, I followed a link to ReadWriteWeb, which had posted on a similar topic, but with a digital twist.
September 18th, 2008
My 7 Favorite Things In: The Boss of You
Seal Press is a goldmine (I swear, they’re all I’ve been posting about lately) and, though the press is aimed toward women, many of their how-tos and handbooks are relevant to men as well. Which is why I don’t mind bringing up another one of their books, Lauren Bacon and Emira Mears’s The Boss of [...]
September 17th, 2008
Quick Tip for Sweet Dreams
I feel only semi-conscious today. Last night, Lusa went wild, systematically knocking the objects on my dresser onto the floor, playing with plastic bags and bubble wrap, running wildly across the bed every time I had finally found sleep and, worst of all, flinging her body across my pillow and tangling her claws in my [...]
September 16th, 2008
Product Placement: Freelancedom Survival Kit
Over at Nerve, I blog about products you need, products you’ll love, and products you probably don’t need but, gosh, they’re so nifty! (My work there gave me the idea to have a regular products feature here at Freelancedom.) During the course of all this blogging, I’ve found many prepackaged “survival” kits, which got me [...]
September 15th, 2008
Do You Have What It Takes? 8 Traits That Help
A couple weeks ago, I participated in a teleconference where I (and others) determined whether career coaching was for us. At the beginning of the call, CCI founder Marcia Bench listed the personality traits necessary for success within the career coaching realm. Of course, the characteristics she mentioned were relevant to all aspiring entrepreneurs. Do [...]
September 12th, 2008
Coffee Break: Not Ready To Concede
It’s been a Xanax-worthy week, you guys. Since finding out that the New York Sun may fold at the end of this month (I do freelance copy editing for them, 15 hours a week), I’ve been panicking. Over a year ago, this regular gig gave me the courage to leave my full-time publishing job. A [...]
