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How to be lost with panache | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

And, look, I’m accomplishing numbers one and three from my list right here. The important thing, I think , is that I’m being honest about what is change and what is not. After that the title is irrelevant—you go to a blog because of a good recommendation, not because of a good name. So my blog there is called Free Beer.

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Frugality is a career tool | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Lots of job and career changes. One could say that your endless pursuit of career flexibility has paradoxically had the opposite effect in your life. I encourage the spending debate for entrepreneurs (internally and externally) to be about why to spend, what it accomplishes, how it simplifies, what's the return, etc.

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BNET Column: Forget the job hunt. Have a baby instead. | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

In a USDA study “Expenditures on Children by Families” widely reported in the media, the US government estimated that a middle-income, two-parent family that gave birth to a baby in 2009 will spend $11,650-$13,530 annually until the child is 17 years old (it doesn't include sending them to college). Thanks again.

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