First stop – Information Superhighway. Surf respectable company sites. Find some I like. Research.

Next stop – Outreach Avenue. Send emails to top contact at identified companies. Arrange informational interview. Chat, love, praise, support…all good things.

Just like any other relationship, your relationship with your job is going to have its’ ups and downs. In some cases it can be clear that the best solution is for the two of you to separate – meaning you will need to find a new job.

According to the Society for Human Resource Management 70% of all workers are receptive to job offers? Are yours?

There are "definitely more smiles on mom duty than Deputy Sheriff duty," explains Kelly Bocardo. Bocardo (second from right) is one of four women currently featured on TLC's Police Women of Maricopa County, which premiered last week. 

In 2005, Ayelet Waldman explained in a New York Times column that she loved her husband more than her children. (Enter mayhem.) The backlash was inextinguishable, but it could have been what set the writer on the path to her latest book, Bad Mother, an examination of the unnecessary judgment we face—and project—everyday as parents. Waldman offers a few of her thoughts on the highs and lows of raising children in the 21st century.

I hated the 60 lbs I had gained with my second child and I wanted it to come off three months before I gave birth. That being said, I had a newborn a three-year-old, a house that looked like a bomb went off in every room, a fat ass and anxiety. I didn't have help and I felt overwhelmed. I was tired of feeling sorry for myself and shifted into becoming solution oriented.

My fear of success started back in elementary school. I’d always been one of those kids that finished their work first. Even back in the 70’s there was a stigma in my class and school around “being smart.”

As a working mother I routinely look back at my day and think I did a lousy job with work/life balance today! Even when I have the best intentions, I easily get pulled in so many directions that there’s just nothing left for the family at the end of the day.

Unless you have been in a post-partum bubble for the past 20 years, you probably realize that the government has gone to great lengths to improve working conditions for women. But do you really know your rights?

One of they keys to being successful in making over your career is to set realistic goals. Many people use the acronym SMART to remember the criteria for goals. According to the acronym goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.