Penelope Trunk

MARCH 17, 2016

But for now, I’m teaching it only four days: May 2 -5 each night for one hour, from 7pm to 8pm Eastern. But then there was the kid who wrote every assignment describing his summer working as a garbage collector. Writing a great blog post can bring you plenty, like Recognition! Sign up now. . Appreciation!

Media 75

Media IT 75

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Last week I announced that I’m doing a week-long series on how to blog. Then I received an onslaught of emails reminding me of how I have always said that it’s stupid to try to earn money blogging. But the bottom line is that making money from blogging based on getting tons of traffic is a terrible goal because so few people can do it.

Networking 111

Networking Career Change Career IT 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Recently I wrote about how most women over 40 working full-time in an office have Aspergers. One of the comments on that post was from Marcy. I stayed home for a year but was bored silly so went back to work but have changed jobs, on average, every 2.25 Kids are boring is an Aspergers thing. Oh and I’m INFJ.

Medical 98

Medical Accomplishment IT Career 98

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The last time I wrote a post with this title, I wrote that women need a stay-at-home husband. And clearly, I was wrong, because later research showed that women who are breadwinners with stay-at-home husbands are headed for divorce. But in the world of rich stay-at-home spouses, it’s a career. A home in a smallish city.

Architecture 92

Architecture Construction Career Creativity 92

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

This is obvious to me because in the months after the towers fell, my world was my recovery support groups — and in my groups, the conversations were all about who is going back to work. My groups were mostly people in banking, insurance, and tech because that’s who worked at the World Trade Center. He kept working.

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Insurance Banking Career IT 124

On The Job

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

All you have to do these days to know some of the most intimate details of someone's life is to check out Twitter or Facebook or read the person's blog. Look at those sitting within six to 10 feet of you at work. Some people like to share -- a lot. That's OK if that's what they want to do, but the rules are different in the workplace.

Career 246

Career IT 246

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

People who are not my kids think it’s really interesting to listen to my side of a coaching phone call. My kids have had enough. And now that my youngest is home alone with me he has taken to pausing his video game to yell out a personality type. Just from hearing my side of the call. That’s how easy it is.

Career Coach 98

Career Coach Career Coaching Career Shadowing 98

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

I get included in a lot of lists ( 19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now , Top 10 Aspergers Blogs , Top 100 Education Blogs , Top 50 Productivity Blogs ) but I generally don’t pay a lot of attention. For example, Sandberg now leaves work each day to be home when her kids get home from school.

Career 111

Career Education Solution IT 111

Corporette

JULY 20, 2023

While all of us are irritated by sensory distractions at the office, like burned-popcorn smell or super-loud typing, the workplace can make some people go into sensory overload — so today we’re talking about how to deal with sensory issues at work. However, this info can benefit people without a formal diagnosis or condition, too.

Communication 77

Communication Electronics Problem Solving IT 77

Penelope Trunk

MAY 20, 2014

I intuitively knew to hide my kids when I started having them, because I had already had a rip-roaring career where I steered clear of women who doted on their kids. ( The kids were annoying to me. I couldn’t understand why the women would lose focus on their jobs to get stupid about their kids. Like this and this

Career 111

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Your Work, Your Way

JUNE 27, 2023

Choose what matters most, both for work and your well-being, and schedule them first. Or we choose work that appears to keep us busy, but drains our executive function (what we need to make good decisions and do our best work. If you have important work to do, Davis has tips on how to get it done in his book Two Awesome Hours.

Management 70

Management Management Accomplishment Career 70

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A year ago the kids staged a rebellion and Y said, “Just be the adult and get him to move out.” Goals that emphasize what’s working well will evaporate a dead end. Z asks us all the time what we will do when the kids are gone. I ask about work. Z will eat lunch at work. I work on my calendar.

Food 98

Food IT Development Career 98

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The trick is to experiment constantly with giving something up, and trying to make everything else work. My husband is someone who worked really really hard his whole life and is a millionaire, but it’s in land. So I got a farm and a house, but I still have to work for the cash we spend. There is no balance.

Career 112

Career Credentials Accomplishment IT 112

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2015

College kids have deep knowledge in both fields, so companies hire kids right out of college to do these jobs. So the just-out-college kid is conferred immediate authority in their career by being thrown into meetings with senior level managers. They work from home. Which is probably from home.

Career 111

Career Consulting Recruitment Management 111

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Some days I am gung ho about entrepreneurship and I’m spending the day with my kids while money comes in from my blog and my coaching and I think “I’m great, I’m living the 4-hour workweek,” and for one minute I forget that I hate Tim Ferriss. Today I got an email from Kiva.

Finance 111

Finance Career Mining Banking 111

Penelope Trunk

JUNE 19, 2011

And just this morning, the Farmer and I had a fight that scared the kids so much they cried. And on Father's Day I feel particularly grateful for both men, because they work really hard to make sure the kids feel like they have an integrated, stable family. I think this is true for all work, not just politics.

IT 98

IT 98

Vantage Circle

APRIL 29, 2020

The number then switched to 21 and suddenly, 30 days later you are still working from home. The initial hopes of returning to lunch with colleagues, water-cooler breaks and a comfortable work desk have disappeared amidst the uncertainty of living in lockdown. It is time to embrace being indoors and make it work.

Management 64

Management Management Networking IT 64

Penelope Trunk

JUNE 1, 2015

If you ever worry what it will look like when your kids take over your life, this is it: lunch at my investor’s favorite restaurant to discuss my son’s cello lessons. I am working like most people who work from home. I see families relocating for their kid to train for the Olympics.

Career 111

Career IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

JUNE 30, 2014

TechCrunch , gospel of the tech sector, knows they have to put women in charge of telling women to have big careers, so Alexia Tsotsi takes up the torch , but she has no kids. Another thing: I don’t want to hear from any women with newborns telling me they’re doing a fine job having kids and a big career.

Career 111

Career Media Solution IT 111

Ayoa

MAY 16, 2022

Our free iPad app, Ayoa for Kids , is a fun, creative and educational learning tool, ideal for developing their literacy in an engaging way. Ayoa tip: You may not work within science or medicine, but you can still take inspiration from these sectors. Thanks to technology, education has become more interactive than ever.

Mind Mapping 52

Mind Mapping Media Entertainment Education 52

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

When people tell me they want to stay home with their kids and they can’t afford it, I want to yell at them about how when I was trying to write freelance and take care of the kids I had a babysitter refuse to come to the house because we had no food in the house. That was me, affording to stay home with my kids and not work.

Career 111

Career Food Education IT 111

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

At least at work. I have been blogging so long that I was blogging when the biggest problem Gen Y had was helicopter parenting. My younger son said, “Are you going to keep taking over the dining room with people from the blog?” “It reflects lack of commitment from one or both parties.”

IT 83

IT Career 83

The Coaching Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

No kidding! And a gazillion bombs being dropped in both Ukraine as well as Gaza far exceeding emissions from your entire country’s CO2 emissions. These psychopathic Malthusian monsters all popped over to the UAE and then promptly lectured the little people how many showers you’ll be allowed to take each week to fix the weather.

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Development IT Management Management 52

On The Job

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I know this because yesterday when I was out doing errands, I heard kids coughing. Blog posts and tweets will begin to pop up, as people lament they'd have to be dead for two days to feel any worse. Co-workers will begin to complain they wish their sick colleagues would stay home. They were sneezing. They were whining.

Medical 174

Medical Career IT 174

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2013

I never used to write about women on my blog. I wrote for three national magazines about careers before I even acknowledged that I was a woman aside from saying 1. I could see that women who had kids got very little respect at the office and I stayed away from them. Even after I had kids, I only worked with men.

Career 112

Career Food Performance Media 112

Wicked Problem Solving

MARCH 3, 2021

They admire their work. No kidding! What is it about little kids that makes them more successful than recent business school graduates? Peter likes to say that none of the kids spend any time trying to be CEO of Spaghetti, Inc., And with each version, kids get instant feedback about what works and what doesn't work.

Performance 52

Performance Engineering Management Management 52

Vantage Circle

MARCH 9, 2020

As NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway said: Millennials are " the most talented generation I've ever worked with. No worries, though, there are plenty of things you can do to convince them to stay and work at your company. Create a Working Model that Attracts Millennials. If you ask me, I’d go with Millennials.

Recruitment 82

Recruitment Transportation Media Management 82

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 29, 2015

So I am answering emails and I have an inbox full of writing from people who are paying me to edit their blog posts. I read, edit, reply, read, edit, reply, and then I get to Erin, who sometimes writes on my education blog , so she is a decent writer, but sometimes she gets all INFP on me and writes total crap. ” F**k.

Banking 111

Banking Construction Education IT 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2017

And I thought it would be really good for my brand to be working with Squarespace. I got to pick the books for the kids my age. Ask me the publisher of any children’s book published from 1975 – 1990. “Don’t get so excited,” my agent said, “you have interest from better publishers.”

Career 81

Career Retail Career Coach Career Coaching 81

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

I don’t get a lot of emails from famous people. She can’t work for anyone for more than a year.”. She can’t work for anyone for more than a year.”. So they think the rules of working with Melissa won’t apply to them. My kids can’t read. Are you wondering what it’s like to work with me? But I do get some.

Mining 110

Mining Finance IT Career 110

On The Job

MAY 19, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, May 19, 2010 The Most Critical Lessons From This Crummy Job Market When I was a kid, one of those "grown-up" sayings that made no sense to me was "never say never again."

Networking 175

Networking Certification Career IT 175

Penelope Trunk

JULY 7, 2011

Why would I need a vacation from my life if I like my life? Also, I'm the person who wrote about why I think travel is a waste of time , and one of the most popular posts on this blog about vacations is why it's okay to work during vacation. This is my idea of vacation for my kid. So, back to the hotel.

IT 111

IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 17, 2014

The data shows that what women want from their career is respect, and what men want is a series of engaging problems to solve. And the guys who work in non-profits saving lives and being kind or whatever, it’s a safe assumption that they are feeling types and that they want respect more than complex problems. There are too many.

Career 111

Career Leadership Media IT 111

Penelope Trunk

APRIL 27, 2016

Relatively few young people today own stock in a private company, and a good chunk of those who do likely aren’t entrepreneurs anyway, but rather work for companies who issue equity to their employees.” Gen Y wants fulfilling work, but starting a company is not-fulfilling, it’s all-consuming.

Career Path 75

Career Path Career IT Management 75

Penelope Trunk

MAY 28, 2013

But you don’t need another blog post on not following rules, because I think we all agree that this blog is a monument to not following rules. I had so few years of playing compared to the women from California who had played all their lives. He would demand to know why we went back home that night. At anything.

Hospitality 112

Hospitality Food IT Education 112

Penelope Trunk

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s his last summer at home. Then I found a site that matches dogs with new owners and I got matched with a dog that was coming from Russia but would be in Maine, and I wondered, what did I say in my profile that made people think I’m an idiot? We don’t need more tumult. So Craigslist wasn’t a good idea.

IT 52

IT Career 52

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

People think they gain valuable experiences from traveling that will be valuable no matter what field they go into. And experience gained from having a job is much more useful experience than anything from not having a job. If you are not excited about your life, you travel to get away from it. I’m not kidding.

Career 76

Career Consulting Career Goals IT 76