A Week in the Life of a Working Mom: Finance at a Fortune 500 Company

A Week in the Life of a Working Mom: Finance at a Fortune 500 Company

For this week’s installment of our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series, I’m happy to introduce CorporetteMoms reader R, who lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two young children and works in finance for a Fortune 500 company. Our usual caveat applies: Please remember that this is is a real person who…

A birthday cupcake with lit candles

The Best Default Birthday Presents for Kids You Don’t Know Well

2018 Update: We still stand by this post on default birthday presents for kids, but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion on kid birthday party guest etiquette.  For the first time ever, my eldest son J is having a birthday party for just his friends. (Summer birthdays are always awkward,…

A Week in the Life of a Working Mom: Communications Exec in D.C.

A Week in the Life of a Working Mom: Communications Exec in D.C.

For this week’s installment of our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series, I’m happy to introduce CorporetteMoms reader Emily, who lives in Washington, D.C., and is a communications executive with a one-year-old daughter. Our usual caveat applies: Please remember that this is is a real person who has feelings and isn’t gaining anything from this,…