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I had to take a Xanax to read Time magazine this week
I’m at my son’s cello lesson, thinking about this week’s Time magazine. Sheryl Sandberg’s on the cover. I never used to write about women on my blog. I wrote for three national magazines about careers before I even acknowledged that …
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Penelope Trunk
Penelope Trunk founded three startups. Her career advice runs in more than 200 newspapers. She lives in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons ...
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What Startup Life is Really Like
Brazen Careerist is my third startup. People ask me all the time why I gave up my position as CEO. If you knew what startup life was really like, you would ask me why I was CEO for as long …
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Voices of the defenders of grad school. And me crushing them.
It’s pretty well established that non-science degrees are not necessary for a job. In fact, the degrees cost you too much money, require too long of a commitment, and do not teach you the real-life skills they promise. Yet, I …
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HOMESCHOOLING
Best place to learn critical thinking is outside the classroom
At first when you take kids out of school you get scared that you won't be able to teach them what they need. After a while, you realize they were learning nothing that they needed
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What Gen Yers don't know about themselves
Now that I'm not the CEO of Brazen Careerist, I don't have to be the national cheerleader for Generation Y. I fantasized about this moment for years: the moment when I'd write the post titled, 10 Things I Hate about …
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How to pick a career you’ll like
Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job …
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Living up to your potential
I confess that I don't feel like I'm working to my potential. And it makes me feel sick. I know the signs. It starts with me not being able to cope with my to-do list. It all looks too overwhelming. …
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Blueprint for a woman's life
When I drive, I have arguments with people in my head. I think of someone who does not realize how smart I am about what I am smart about, and I go on tirades to show them how misguided they …