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What Are the Benefits and Current Limitations of Maternity Coaching for Parents and Employers?

International Coach Academy

Fear of being overlooked for promotions; being unable to work 12-hour days, evenings, or weekends; inflexible managers and colleagues; questioning self-worth and value; a lack of empathy and understanding towards your new situation; and when and where to pump to keep your milk supply going.

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We overestimate the gap between nonprofit and for-profit jobs.

Penelope Trunk

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook My ex-husband worked in the nonprofit sector for a while. Being a non-profit is no excuse for treating people poorly. Paying way below a living wage is elitist—as if working in a nonprofit is a rich kids’ playground that your parents fund. And you know what?

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List of things I hate #3 | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

In that vein, life is the process of expanding our love and our knowledge, and I suppose, our hate. On top of that, people who use sarcasm think they are being funny, but this is a poor man’s humor; because comedy is about timing. You say it, then there’s a beat, and then people laugh. The timing is off.

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Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.

Penelope Trunk

I tell Now Magazine (I think it’s basically People magazine for the UK audience) to call back after I got the kids off to school. I ask my housemanager to come early because I can't handle the sleep deprivation and the early-morning interviews and school lunches all in one morning. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station.

Media 101
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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to manage a college education Posted to: College students January 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us He went to college, probably, because so many people told him to. So they can get away with having incompetent career centers. Ben left college.

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Workplace news you cannot use | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Workplace news you cannot use Posted to: How to blog | Productivity | Women January 25th, 2010 Del.icio.us Here are four ideas I was just about to toss out as incurably useless, but instead, I bring them to you: 1. I’m not sure how useful it is.

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