"Writer. Businesswoman. Smartass. Creator, #Webby award-winning blog The Middle Finger Project, for babes with balls. Giving out my card is a slippery slope."
An edgy Twitter bio, isn't it?
Ashley Ambirge is the creator of this Twitter bio, and as you can probably guess, she is the creator of The Middle Finger Project.
Yes, this is the name of a professional blog/website, believe it or not.
A little bit of background about Ambirge and The Middle Finger Project before we go on:
In 2009, Ambirge was working as an online and print advertiser, after she had spent years working her way up the career ladder through Public Relations and Marketing. She had a life that most people would view as successful and accomplished. From her job, to her house, to her boyfriend, she seemingly had it all.
To everyone else, that is.
Ambirge felt like something was missing from her life. On the outside, her life seemed to be perfect, but on the inside, her life felt far from that. As well, she was terrified of the way she was living her life. Personal fulfillment was not something that was continuously being generated for her day in and day out. So, after a number of questionable decisions, she decided to make a change for the better. As a result of this, she ended up leaving the job and career she had worked so hard to maintain and improve, for good.
Thus, The Middle Finger Project was born.
The Middle Finger Project is a professional blog/website that reaches out to women who are working on their careers and continuing to grow as professionals. Ambirge reaches these women through her blog posts that are sent out in a weekly email to those who subscribe. She also posts these blogs to her main website, where there are also other tips and tricks to aid in being a woman in the professional world. Not only do the women who subscribe to The Middle Finger Project want to grow as professionals, they most likely want to grow as people too.
Stumbling upon this blog/website a few months ago has greatly impacted my life. Ambirge is open and honest in her blog posts about things that can happen to a woman during her career. As well, she is open and honest about the mistakes she made during her career, including how she put too much value in things that she shouldn't have. Ambirge also makes her advice humorous and encouraging. Her blogs and emails are not typical. They are not your everyday blog you might read while drinking coffee or email you might get from a professor about a class you are taking. They include sarky language with a good number of cuss words sprinkled throughout, and they most definitely make you laugh out loud at least once.
So yes, Ambirge's blog/website is not for those who do not like cussing, who do not like snarky language and who do not support women creating kick-ass careers for themselves, but to those who do, this blog is life altering and very impactful.
I will leave you with a quote that appears on the front page of Ambirge's website:
BE ORIGINAL. WORK ORIGINAL. LIVE A BRAVE & CREATIVE LIFE.
Here is the link to The Middle Finger Project website (where I got the information you just read from) : https://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/
If you follow the link, you will find a place to enter your email and become a subscriber if you so choose!
