From our first day on this earth we're working and learning about finding our place where we feel comfortable, most ourselves. While I feel comfortable in my own skin, I'm facing a new and old kind of advisory which I thought I had left behind.

While I'm a shrewd competitor, I'm also one who is a very social and positive person. No, I'm far from Pollyanna, but I do always look for the best in others, and it is one of the things that makes me special and different. It's also something that can put me in harms way and is risky and naive. Like most people, I do my best to learn from my mistakes. Over the past few months I have had some life lessons because of these qualities and have been taken advantage of by others. I'm not one of speak ill of others but if you read my blog, you know some of the situations I may or may not be referring to.

So like any person who is a life-long learner, I set out for some sage advice about finding MY place. And after talking with someone who's opinion I value dearly and look up to, the advice they had for me was this. . .
Jessica Miller-Merrell, known as @Blogging4Jobs on Twitter is a published author and leading HR blogger and new media strategist whose mission is to bring business thought leaders together to move new media as well as the human resource industry forward. Her current projects include providing HR, recruiting, and new media consultancy with her company, Xceptional HR. Her newest project is Texting4Jobs, a text based job board platform recently launched in Oklahoma.