Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Eighty percent of adults with Asperger Syndrome do not have full-time work. This not because they can’t do the work. But then I get to the school and I think I am early to the conference, and I go to the bathroom, because the school halls are bustling and I want calm. Doing nothing.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Instead, I wake up freezing, because the ex keeps my house much colder than I do. It’s his time with them, and if I stop hiding, we would have to parent together, and if we could do that then we’d still be married. I have said, every day for the past week, that today is the day I will go to the gym. That’s right.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

When I first started doing this top-posts-of-the-year thing, I felt obligated to actually give you the real version of what was most popular. High-income women get more oral sex. Do you belong in NYC? I want to say something upbeat about 2010. I want to say something upbeat about 2010. Take the test.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I want this blog to be somewhere in between a one-night stand with a sales guy and a five-point list of sales tips. I want this blog to be somewhere in between a one-night stand with a sales guy and a five-point list of sales tips. In fact, I want my life to be that way as well. She said, "What would you do on vacation?

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog The biggest triumph is getting out of bed Posted to: Fulfillment March 9th, 2010 Del.icio.us I knew immediately that the interview was going to be a disaster, so I told them I wanted to do the interview written, rather than on the phone.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 5 Ways to make telecommuting better Posted to: Working from home February 27th, 2010 Del.icio.us I don’t want to talk to people.” Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I have this idea that I am going to start working from home. How early?”

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog First, be honest about what you want Posted to: Goal setting | Knowing yourself November 2nd, 2009 Del.icio.us I do not belong in a city. Laws of marriage and property and value do not apply. Is this your first time here? I thought of one.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 3, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog List of things I hate #3 Posted to: Knowing yourself March 4th, 2010 Del.icio.us Because if it’s so important to you, give it to the person who will do the best job. Change your mind later if you want. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to take intelligent risks Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Finding a career | Quitting | Self-management September 29th, 2010 Del.icio.us We know what we want to try, and we’re not sure if we should try it. Moving across country. Writing a novel.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 16, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog When you're feeling lost, don't hide Posted to: Finding a career | Knowing yourself August 16th, 2010 Del.icio.us I wrote my book because I did not have a road map and I am wanted other people to have a road map to do a career like I did.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to do damage control Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management September 24th, 2010 Del.icio.us I’d sneak onto her in the pasture when the farmer was doing farmer things in the crop fields. Well, here’s the story of the donkey.

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IT Career Management Management 110

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 6, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to make yourself more likable Posted to: How to blog | Knowing yourself | Negotiating January 6th, 2010 Del.icio.us The farmer does not want to be in this blog. First it was like this: Him: I don’t want to be in the blog. Everywhere.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Brazen Careerist opens an office in DC Posted to: Entrepreneurship October 6th, 2010 Del.icio.us I was scared I was doing something crazy. Running a startup is so intense. I wanted to look good at it, so I looked like I belong on the farm.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Start recognizing patterns in problems Posted to: Knowing yourself October 15th, 2010 Del.icio.us I do not feel like he needs me because he has X. Guess who was doing it? So this is what we do. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 24, 2010

Posted to: Interviewing March 24th, 2010 Del.icio.us So I think I'm going to have to do some fast confessing so that you guys don't all unsubscribe. So I think I'm going to have to do some fast confessing so that you guys don't all unsubscribe. The kids really want to see a wedding. Well, not really.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Being an expert takes time, not talent Posted to: Fulfillment | Goal setting | How to blog January 28th, 2010 Del.icio.us But I love the article so much, that I want you to know all of them. This is not a medical journal. In my life. In my life.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Like, how could they want all that information? Do you have it?” “I Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car Posted to: Diversity | Self-management December 1st, 2009 Del.icio.us So I guess.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Let’s do lunch! An introvert has more energy for doing life if he or she gets time alone, to recharge. instead of “what are you doing?” Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The workplace is set up to reward extroverts. Your career is only as strong as your network! An extrovert gets recharged from being around people.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Posted to: Fulfillment September 22nd, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I told the farmer I wanted a horse. Anyway, now there are tons of people who want to get rid of horses. And I actually do think I know the answer. Here are things I know about horses from the farmer’s response: 1.

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IT Career Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Five tips for asking better questions Posted to: Finding a career | Fulfillment May 6th, 2010 Del.icio.us For example, I know I want to write about the farm, but I’m not sure how to do it. Do you know that term?

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 8 Tips for anger management Posted to: Office Politics | Parenting | Self-management January 8th, 2010 Del.icio.us But I hate feeling like I’m married to the nanny, and I hate feeling like I can’t do normal parenting things on my own.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 5, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to get good ideas for startups Posted to: Entrepreneurship August 5th, 2010 Del.icio.us I’m not sure if this qualifies us for the Harvard study demographic, but just in case, my kids do a lot of chores. Not quite American Gothic.

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IT Career Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2009

You stay within the bounds of the reader's expectations, and if you do that, you can write surprises that seem to stray from your topic, and the reader stays with you. Because it’s hard to do. Most of them are only tangentially about how to do some career thing. So I need to do something else. It’s part of the fun.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

So, based on my own experience , here are some concrete rules for doing better at work if you have Asperger’s, and maybe if you don’t. What I do hear Asperger’s people sad about all the time is a lack of employment opportunity. What I do hear Asperger’s people sad about all the time is a lack of employment opportunity.

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Career IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Tips for coping when your startup is out of cash, May 2009 I remember this day so clearly. About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog My birthday post Posted to: How to blog December 10th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It's my birthday.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Children with Asperger’s often have to learn when to use Why, What, and Where because they don’t know how to ask questions, even though they often have through-the-roof IQs. Asperger’s children must learn that everyone can tell you something about the world that you don’t know, and learning things about the world is interesting.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Webinar on Friday, Wedding on Saturday Posted to: How to blog April 14th, 2010 Del.icio.us First, I want to address the recent onslaught of complainers who have entered my life. We will talk about that in a minute. I know I should. Sign up here.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 30, 2010

Posted to: How to blog March 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us So I think I’ll just go ahead and violate my other rule, too: I’m going to do a webinar about how to make money from blogging without running ads. ( Well, she actually said she’d do it for free. It’s doing work for free that makes you millions. But I would have paid her.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

But after a few months, I was totally overwhelmed and had to rethink what I was doing. I wanted to meet new people and learn new things about topics I’m interested in. So I wanted the conversation to be good. I knew I wanted this to be my job, so I needed to be able to support my family doing it. Create traffic.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Frugality is a career tool Posted to: Money February 1st, 2010 Del.icio.us I’ve never bought a new piece of living room furniture, and I do not own a single piece of real jewelry. The best way to do that is with entrepreneurship.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

I have played professional volleyball, I climbed the corporate ladder in Fortune 500 marketing, I was a journalist at the Boston Globe, and I’ve gotten three startups funded. Who else would do this? Is this your first time here? Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I am lost. I have been lost before in my career. I know that.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 12, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Productivity is about finding space Posted to: Productivity April 12th, 2010 Del.icio.us So it makes sense that now that I feel secure in my relationship with the farmer , I am going to tell you what he has that I want: Photos for my blog.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Which the Guardian wants done in the next 20 hours. Now magazine wants to know if they can send a photographer to take a photo of my kids. The first thing I think is that my kids were so sad that I was not taking them to school as usual that I promised to pick them up after school, and I don’t want to break the promise.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to write about your life Posted to: How to blog | My book February 11th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Agents contact me on a regular basis to ask me if I want to do a book about my life. It’s true.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 21, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to cope with diversity Posted to: Diversity June 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us He just wants to be clean. Is this your first time here? Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook All projects run longer than scheduled. He doesn’t care.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

People do good writing every day, in social media—when they write a note on someone’s Facebook wall, when they post a caption to a photo on flickr , or when they post a comment in a group on Brazen Careerist. The people who tell you who can write and who can’t are the people who don’t want language to change.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to be more creative at work Posted to: Fulfillment | How to blog February 18th, 2010 Del.icio.us Do you know the Approval Matrix in New York magazine? Is this your first time here? N ot safe for work.) Maybe not safe for work.)

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