Happy Anniversary

It's my 10th About.com anniversary this month.  I started with what was then the Mining Co. back in January, 1998.  I was the Guide for the Albany, NY site.  I took over the About.com Job Searching site in June, 1998.  I'm not quite sure where all those years have gone.  My teenage daughter was in kindergarten when I first became a Guide.  I don't think she has any recollection of life without About. 

It's amazing how much online job searching has changed since I started writing about it.  There weren't any job search engines or networking sites.  Uploading your resumes and letters was a cumbersome process.  Email didn't have all the bells and whistles it has now back then, either.  There was no YouTube, where, today, you can find candidate videos and company recruiting videos.  Second Life was a figment of someone's imagination and who would have thought you could, one day, get hired virtually for a real job?

Sometimes, I wish I had kept track, so I could have written a history of online job searching, but keeping up with the changes is more than enough work!

Another anniversary to note is my husband Mike's second anniversary as the About.com Skiing Guide.  He's built a terrific site, and best of all, he's had lots of fun, and gotten in lots of skiing in lots of places, doing it.

Speaking of fun, I've written, probably too much, on how work should be fun and how important it is to do what you love.  About.com has provided me the opportunity to do that for a long time - and I appreciate it more than I have the words to say.  Thanks to all the staff there, and thanks as well, to the career experts who have shared their advice, and the job seekers who have shared their stories with me.  I couldn't have done this without you.