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My birthday post | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

P.S. One of my mentors used to say "anything worth doing is worth doing 'badly'!" Finding out that there is more money in my banking account than previously thought. " It drove many of us crazy. Took me a while to realize what he meant. Whenever someone writes to tell me how much they appreciate my writing.

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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. And guess which industry my friends & I work in – yup banking. Sometimes ppl are getting specials rights because of their money in the bank.

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

Penelope Trunk

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. So you generalizing that grad school is not the way to go is totally wrong. Posted by Joselle on September 7, 2010 at 7:34 pm | permalink | Reply I detect a bigger issue.

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