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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. At one point, we were completely stressed out about not being insured, and he asked his boss what everyone else was doing, and she said, “Can’t you get insurance from your spouse? And you know what? He rarely got health insurance.

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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. She calls the school to get the kids ready to leave early. She cancels violin lessons and cello lessons and a reading tutor. Mainstream media stinks.) And then the phone kept ringing.

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

Penelope Trunk

It is elitist and a rip off and the Internet has democratized access to information and communication skills to the point that paying $30K a year to get them is insane. It is elitist and a rip off and the Internet has democratized access to information and communication skills to the point that paying $30K a year to get them is insane.

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