ChickSpeak

Back to School season often provides a fabulous excuse to pick up some new clothes and fresh accessories. What you might not have in mind though while wandering through the mall, is the origin of that cute new top you just bought or the child, yes child, who glued and stitched your new running shoes together.  Sweat shops exist […]

Look around the room you’re sitting in right now. Does it look the way you want it to? Is it clean enough? Did you ever put up those new drapes you ordered or paint the walls that lovely shade of crisp tortilla you’ve been meaning to? Have you hung the black and white photos from […]

I was watching Good Morning America a couple days ago and there was a “college prep” piece on roommates - specifically about getting to know (or rather getting information on) your new college roommate before school starts.  In the old days, we just picked up the phone and gave each other a ring.  Nowadays, you will most […]

Last month, we gave some advice on how to handle confrontational customers under the title of “Summer Jobs.” But let’s be honest. Many of us keep those “summer” jobs-bartending, waitressing, telemarketing-while we work our way through college and on to bigger and better things.
 And heated situations continue to occur in the workplace when temperatures outside […]

Figure out who you love, who loves you, and bring those people close to you.

Alicia Dunams is not just a pretty face. This young mother and model holds her bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA, has travelled the world twice and is now on a mission to harness her own earning potential while she helps other young women do the same through her book and consulting.
Alicia Dunams originally set out […]

Recently I moved from my quiet and familiar home in Lookout Mountain, TN to the busy and completely unfamiliar streets of New York City.  Coming from the South, I knew very little of what to expect from my apartment search in what is reputably the roughest real estate market in the nation.  Equipped with only […]

*With Additional Contributions by Jen Levi.
How to Handle Difficult Customers : If you have a job where you interact with customers on a regular basis, you’re bound to encounter some that are having a bad day and decide to take it out on you, or that think that since you’re there to serve them, that […]

It’s almost that time of year again. The only thing that stands between you and your freedom from a summer at home with the ‘rents is the pesky question of how you’re going to get all of your earthly belongings back to campus. Having your mom drop everything off in her suburban is simply not […]