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4 Lies about social media | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 4 Lies about social media Posted to: Job Hunt | Networking | Promoting Yourself October 21st, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Everyone knows that the best way to get a job is to leverage your network. I’m on LinkedIn.

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How I improved my morning routine | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

But I do think that if my kids eat sugar for breakfast, they will have a sugar crash before lunch, at school, and sneaking a sugar-laden pick-me-up is not going to fly with the teachers. Is this your first time here? So then I’d get up at 5:30, to get ready for work in peace, and then the kids got up at 5:30 with me. I was shocked.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

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He said, “City people probably think so. The most special time, I think, was when two girls did tricks on one horse. The girls did not share a horse because the tricks are more difficult that way, it was more like the girls shared a horse to make you think they'd be available for a threesome after the show. So we stayed.

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Asperger's at work: 5 ways to be less annoying | Penelope Trunk's.

Penelope Trunk

And your boss will think you’re coachable. About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger's at work: 5 ways to be less annoying Posted to: Diversity | Knowing yourself | Office Politics November 24th, 2009 Del.icio.us Spend limited amounts of time with people. Then leave. Then leave.

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Test: Is your life happy or interesting? | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The culmination of my four-year obsession with happiness research is that I think people need to choose between an interesting life or happy life. I think the things that make life happy have to do with complacency, and the things that make life interesting have to do with lack of complacency.

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First, be honest about what you want | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Someone once asked me to think of a moment in my childhood that was really nice. You think of one, now. I think I fell in love with the farmer that second. So you’d think, now that I’m marrying the farmer , I’d finally get my farm. I thought of one. Where I belong is in nature.

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When you're feeling lost, don't hide | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

I have been thinking about this because I am really lost right now. I used to think it was because my childhood was totally horrible and ended the day the police removed me from my house as my visibly relieved mother looked away. I think now, though, that my mom and I don't get along because we are so much alike.

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