Learn from my mistakes

Helpful Tips for Work & Commuting:

Don’t drink tea in your boss’s doorway if you know you’re going to dribble the contents of your travel mug down your shirt. Every. single. time.

If you host a training conference call on Outlook and “share” your desktop, don’t forget to log off the call before taking a lunch break (especially if there are four other people who haven’t exited the meeting yet who can still see your every move online). Otherwise, you’ll pray that nobody watched you check your personal email, bank account and medical test results.

Don’t read David Sedaris or Sh*t my Dad Says on public transportation, less people think you’re insane from hysterical laughing. Don’t read A Thousand Splendid Suns on public transportation, less people think you’re insane from hysterical crying.

Don’t leave your ergonomic pillow in a hotel, your lumbar support cushion on a train, and your iPod in a “safe spot” (which you can’t remember), or you'll aggravate your travel-induced back pain and CD collection fatigue.

If you’re going to a meeting at a store in San Francisco with 4 locations, make sure to get directions to the correct location. Otherwise, you may hop a train to the city, walk a mile up-hill, realize you’re at the wrong store, take three crowded filthy buses across town, and show up at your meeting (which you’re co-leading by the way) an hour late.