Alexandria Zech

Yesterday, I backed my car into a pole. Not metaphorically. Not one of those spiritual “I hit an obstacle and realized the obstacle was actually me” kinds of poles. An actual pole. You know how these things happen; suddenly, unexpectedly and quickly. I always say "Life happens in-between the moments" ... in the split - second moments that can change everything, immediately. Thinking the car was in park, I released my foot off the break to see what my daughter wanted to show me on the phone......

I was talking to a friend recently about what it means to be "midlife" in today’s job market. Many of us imagined that by this point in our careers, we’d have reached some version of a peak, maybe not the title, but at least the stability, the clarity, and the sense of trajectory. But today’s landscape looks nothing like what we envisioned. C-level layoffs. Hiring freezes. More available talent than there are jobs to fill. And of course, with the rise of AI and the false belief that it’s a...

In the mid-'90s, the allure of UCLA had always been a distant dream for me. Nevertheless, I was determined to not let my perceived...