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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. You're not a big aquirer of Stuff, which is good. However, where you blow a lot of money because of the instability in your life. These things are all very expensive.

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

Penelope Trunk

Posted by Sam on September 7, 2010 at 5:31 pm | permalink | Reply I am currently a grad student and I am doing this because there was no way I could find a job after getting laid off, and wanting to leverage my chances for a career change. So you generalizing that grad school is not the way to go is totally wrong.

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