All the ominous predictions of working in a worse place never came through once I left a shitty job that was making me sick. If you have savings to tide yourself over a year, you can leave.

But maybe it’s because being more “relatable” and being less threatening still serves women better than the opposite, or at least in many settings.

I don’t work in law but I think it depends on if you know someone. In my experience, law is well-connected and people can build on those connections. A lot of fields aren’t like that.

I like many thing about Ask A Manager, but I agree with this. I think you can really see her HR/non-profit background here, and it’s not consistent with many other fields.

Admittedly, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about this. But the blanket “never contact a person at a job you are applying to” is just wrong.

Good ol’ dad.