Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2009

In hindsight, I should have directed him to the post titled How to Write an Email that Generates a Good Response. One of the most frequent mistakes people make in a job interview is when you switch to complete BS when the interviewer asks, at the end, “Do you have any questions for me?” Can you guide me please?

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

When my last car broke down in the middle of an intersection, I got the magazine out of the trunk before I abandoned the car. There are stories like that, ones we hang onto when we do things like watch the Olympics and allow ourselves to think, “Maybe I’ll be on the luge team in 2014.” I should have been a basketball player.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

For example, when I had a baby, I stayed home with it, every hour of every day, while I had an identity crisis. I still needed to support the family, but I couldn’t write anything because I couldn’t imagine giving career advice when I was having a total career meltdown. I am not a good listener. Be patient when people talk.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 21, 2009

So you need to go somewhere else to build your network, and then, when it’s big, display it on LinkedIn so you’ll look great. Your blog is a record of what you’re thinking, and that record will represent you online, as a high-ranking search result when someone googles your name. But what you cannot do on LinkedIn is build a network.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 24, 2010

But right now, it's true, I'm only announcing webinars and then praying that I don't do anything inappropriate when I'm actually doing the webinar. I told Ryan Paugh the catchy topic, and then I promptly forgot it when the electrician came. Here's why you should go to the webinar. I'm great at that.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can’t bear to simply be gone when they come home from school. He says he can’t believe I’m taking the kids on a trip again when the last business trip I took them on turned out so bad that the police came. Should it be tied to me? Is miscarriage a workplace issue? The only reasonable flight to NYC is at 3:08.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Now the breathing resonates with me, when I do it at 5:30 am as a desperate attempt to keep myself calm long enough to get to work. Especially when I’m depressed. I do not explain this when a co-worker asks why I don’t have twenty minutes to fix home page copy at 8:30 pm. Kids feel secure when they have boundaries and authority.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Snapshot of the new workplace: Karen Owen's PowerPoint Posted to: Women October 9th, 2010 Del.icio.us Owen's sex life is a workplace issue. Here are some things to think about when you read her slides: 1.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Newsflash: No one could write in the Middle Ages, when the good writers wrote in Latin and everyone else spoke colloquial languages like French and English, which priests told them were too lame for real writing. Which means that students probably know intuitively to use texting slang only when texting. " -George Orwell, 1984.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Check-up for self-delusion Posted to: Diversity | Self-management | Women February 7th, 2010 Del.icio.us That's what I think of when I hear about the HBO documentary about Temple Grandin. And they know it, but they keep going.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

When it comes to self-reporting happiness, New Yorkers report being less happy than everyone else, and they don't care. When I lived in NYC with two kids the year I had $200,000 coming in, I felt like I was living at the edge of poverty. It seems irrelevant and petty to question. To me, you seem to be complicating this too much.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

It’s a workplace tool, and it’s also a pile of junk we’re always trying to get to the bottom of. Execution happens outside of email, and ideas should happen in groups—which means social networks. But I’m realizing now that privacy won’t matter when my kids are growing up. It’s like when women first wrote about orgasms.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

Hello, McDonald's) Posted to: Diversity | Leadership January 18th, 2010 Del.icio.us I was not thrilled about going, but I try to be open-minded when it comes to stuff that is new to me that I am not ever wishing I will get a chance to experience. Until the women came out. I really hated it before there were any animals.

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