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Oh, yes: I totally forgot about this last week. The WSJ heralded the “triumphant return of the skirt suit,” wherein the author began with the sentence, “The last time any fashionable woman took a skirt suit seriously, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver were clobbering one another for corner-office rights in the 1988 film ‘Working Girl.'” They then illustrated the article with three suits that Betty and Sally Draper are super excited about (pictured).
Above the Law reports that the Florida Bar cares a lot about the length of your skirts.
SheFinds tells you how to keep dark nail polish from staining your nails.
Sally at Already Pretty ponders how much you should care about fashion (and who gets to tell you how much you care).
The Washington Post (and my former roommate, writer Jena McGregor!) tells it like it is: the boardroom is still an old boy's club.
Ask a Manager clues you in on when you actually have to fill in the “salary requirement” part of a job application. Meanwhile, Levo League tells you how to prep for an interview.
I've linked to her blog before, but I'm excited to say that Liz Brown's new book, Life After Law is out — if you're an unhappy lawyer and curious about exit strategies, this is the book for you. Liz was nice enough to include my story in her book as well!
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I have a question – I will be taking six months off my permanent job to teach at a college. I knew that I would be facing a pay check cut, since I’m in the private sector now. And while there is a fairly significant cut, (About $7,500 pre taxes) it is not a bad pay by any means.
However, the department head when she called to offer me the job, was determined to tell me that while there was a set sum in the contract, “I could negotiate” the salary. She seemed quite insistent on telling me this. I will negotiate with HR.
I am therefore planning to do that on Monday. I’m not going to get to my current pay level, and I think that it might be foolish to ask for that. But I’m considering asking for half of that. Given that I will also adjust my taxes because of this (hello from Norway where I pay 45% tax, but didn’t pay anything when I last went to the doctor) , I should end at roughly the same amount of money a month post taxes that I have currently.
Can anyone help with a specific strategy that has worked for them?
If you don’t get any suggestions here, try posting in the weekend open thread. Good luck!
Shopping PSA — I just got a pair of Indigo by Clarks “Loyal Soul” pumps, and they are the most comfortable heels I’ve ever worn! I wore them all day yesterday with no blisters or pain.
Indigo by Clarks are my go to comfortable, have to wear all day heels, too. I even search them on ebay sometimes to get different colors for cheap.
am I missing something with the “skirt suit” article? I haven’t seen any sign that the skirt suit hasn’t been a fashionable/appropriate/professional choice for the last 20 years–especially on this of all sites where a skirt suit is featured with regular frequency- either as is or as a skirt piece with a collection of separates! When I was in law school (only about 6 years back), there were occasional pant suits, but skirt suits still the norm among students and professionals. I have 2 theories on where this article is coming from: maybe it specifically refers to the two-piece skirt suit (although that wasn’t Siguorney’s MO, as I recall) OR maybe this is a New York thing (as a transplant to California, I had a bit of shock at first how much the work fashion differs coast-to-coast); but if skirt suits haven’t been a thing since the early 90s, I don’t think anyone told the majority of retailers or professional working women….
I think they meant “in the world of high fashion,” because yes, professional working women apparently missed that memo. It didn’t help that they quoted my art law professor, who (while wonderful) obviously has not needed to wear suits because she teaches the areas of law in which I would most expect the lawyers to not be “suit” types (art law, first amendment stuff. I guess maybe I would expect the IP lawyers in California to be less likely to wear suits than art lawyers, but you get the idea).
Thank you for the Washington Post article. While re-assuring, it hit very close to home for me.
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I have a question – I will be taking six months off my permanent job to teach at a college. I knew that I would be facing a pay check cut, since I’m in the private sector now. And while there is a fairly significant cut, (About $7,500 pre taxes) it is not a bad pay by any means.
However, the department head when she called to offer me the job, was determined to tell me that while there was a set sum in the contract, “I could negotiate” the salary. She seemed quite insistent on telling me this. I will negotiate with HR.
I am therefore planning to do that on Monday. I’m not going to get to my current pay level, and I think that it might be foolish to ask for that. But I’m considering asking for half of that. Given that I will also adjust my taxes because of this (hello from Norway where I pay 45% tax, but didn’t pay anything when I last went to the doctor) , I should end at roughly the same amount of money a month post taxes that I have currently.
Can anyone help with a specific strategy that has worked for them?
If you don’t get any suggestions here, try posting in the weekend open thread. Good luck!
Shopping PSA — I just got a pair of Indigo by Clarks “Loyal Soul” pumps, and they are the most comfortable heels I’ve ever worn! I wore them all day yesterday with no blisters or pain.
Indigo by Clarks are my go to comfortable, have to wear all day heels, too. I even search them on ebay sometimes to get different colors for cheap.
am I missing something with the “skirt suit” article? I haven’t seen any sign that the skirt suit hasn’t been a fashionable/appropriate/professional choice for the last 20 years–especially on this of all sites where a skirt suit is featured with regular frequency- either as is or as a skirt piece with a collection of separates! When I was in law school (only about 6 years back), there were occasional pant suits, but skirt suits still the norm among students and professionals. I have 2 theories on where this article is coming from: maybe it specifically refers to the two-piece skirt suit (although that wasn’t Siguorney’s MO, as I recall) OR maybe this is a New York thing (as a transplant to California, I had a bit of shock at first how much the work fashion differs coast-to-coast); but if skirt suits haven’t been a thing since the early 90s, I don’t think anyone told the majority of retailers or professional working women….
I think they meant “in the world of high fashion,” because yes, professional working women apparently missed that memo. It didn’t help that they quoted my art law professor, who (while wonderful) obviously has not needed to wear suits because she teaches the areas of law in which I would most expect the lawyers to not be “suit” types (art law, first amendment stuff. I guess maybe I would expect the IP lawyers in California to be less likely to wear suits than art lawyers, but you get the idea).
Thank you for the Washington Post article. While re-assuring, it hit very close to home for me.