What I Wish You Knew is an ongoing blog series about working life and career choices. Today I am so pleased to welcome to the blog Diahann Lohr! If you would like to participate in this blog series, please contact me. This week is National Entrepreneurship Week and I’d love to share a snippet of my entrepreneurial life. While I certainly can’t be considered a typical entrepreneur—I doubt there is such a thing—I would like to be a voice of encouragement to anyone considering t

What I Wish You knew is an ongoing blog series about jobs, career and work choices. If you'd like to participate, contact me! Today I am thrilled to welcome a professional who specializes in fraud protection. My official title is fraud supervisor in our bank protection department. I have a team of seven who complete reviews of various processes to ensure we minimize regulatory, process and customer risk. I also supervise individuals who work with corporate escalations and deb

What I Wish You Knew is a blog series about jobs and careers. Today's entry was contributed by Administrative Assistant Callie Blumberg. I am an administrative assistant at TDS Telecom. I have been here since May of 2011 and I am technically still a contractor, meaning I actually work for the employment agency. This was not a job that I sought out specifically, but my husband at the time also worked at TDS and had a connection with the employment agency. He found out they wer

What I Wish You Knew is a blog series about jobs and careers that explores our thoughts and feelings about the work we do each day. Today, I am extremely pleased to welcome Lisa Wade, a woman whose work and passion I've admired for years. I am a tenured professor of sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. The job involves teaching, mentoring, writing and publishing original research, and helping the college function. It's hard for me to say that I chose it. I always l

What I Wish You Knew is a regular blog feature highlighting the ins and outs of different jobs and career choices. Today's post is written by UX Architect Chris McDowell. Fun fact: Chris and Laura met and became friends when they both participated in the Walt Disney World College Program in 1999! My job title is a User Experience Architect, but I would say that I am more of a User Interface/ User Experience Designer. I evolved into this field as technology has become a bigger