I’ve learned some valuable lessons early on in my 18 year career in the environmental industry. In 1990, I was responsible for paying my way through college (with a lot of help from scholarships and the Society of Women Engineers), and I supplemented my income by working at a prestigious engineering company in Dallas, Texas as a part-time receptionist. The company had an environmental division and the manager of that department realized that I was eager to learn and started letting me help ...     Read entire post

So, I was thinking about the Market Maven Starbucks blog last night as I reluctantly sat in Taco Bell with my children waiting for our order.  The poor girl who was taking orders was by herself at the front counter and it was only her second day on the job.  She had to keep leaving the register to go to the drive thru window (where apparently someone with only  a few more days experience was working) to ask how to ring up items.  A crowd was collecting in the lobby and it did ...     Read entire post