Michelle Goodman

Michelle Goodman has stocked shelves, scrubbed toilets, bagged groceries, scooped ice cream, parked cars, painted houses, scraped wallpaper, waited tables, answered phones, alphabetized files, cold called customers, entered data, stuffed envelopes, and played admin to an array of dazzlingly bad bosses. Today she is an award-winning journalist and author of two irreverent career guides, The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and My So-Called Freelance Life , both published by Seal Press. Michelle s ABC News...See more

Michelle Goodman has stocked shelves, scrubbed toilets, bagged groceries, scooped ice cream, parked cars, painted houses, scraped wallpaper, waited tables, answered phones, alphabetized files, cold called customers, entered data, stuffed envelopes, and played admin to an array of dazzlingly bad bosses. Today she is an award-winning journalist and author of two irreverent career guides, The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and My So-Called Freelance Life , both published by Seal Press. Michelle s ABC News career column ran for five years, her Seattle Times work-life balance blog for four. Her articles and essays have appeared in dozens of other outlets, including BBC, CNN, The New York Times , Salon, Entrepreneur , VICE, BUST, Bitch, Seattle magazine, and several anthologies. She sits on the board of directors of Lit Crawl Seattle and curates Wage Slaves: Tales from the Grind, a Seattle reading series about work. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with a man, a dog, and a seriously ornery cat." See less