Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

Good questions require creative thinking. Good questions are fundamentally creative. As my career shifts, I find that the key to keeping the shift moving in a productive way is to ask good questions. It’s ironic, because one of the most frequent questions I get from people is “what’s the best way to make a career change?”

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It's easier to jump in (albeit perhaps at a lower level) after taking time off if you have more experience and a stronger network in your hip pocket. I dont think the two are interchangeable, like they're different hormones. So you generalizing that grad school is not the way to go is totally wrong.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I am passionate about frugality- I take slow steps toward making a career about it. Because of its limitations, it forces you to be creative. Frugality forces you to manage time and resources wisely, and it's important to practice it for your career. Lots of job and career changes. I write about it every day.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 10, 2009

. :) Paste…this is how I described your posts to my friends: Get out of a career when you're done doing it: [link] Don't try to dodge the recession with grad school, it's pointless [link] Don't wait until you bottom out to make a career change [link] Don't frame your career around fun versus not-fun jobs. (I

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