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June 13, 2006
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Improve your career by moving the candy dish

Here's news in the category of good-looking people have better careers:

Now you can blame your co-worker for your tanking career and science will support you: A candy dish at work can make you fat. But a candy dish that is more than 6 1/2 feet away from you will be less tempting. Measure your co-worker's dish. If it's too close, move it every morning before she gets in. She'll never notice.

Maybe there is actually some justice to the fact that thin people make more money than fat people: A study at Tufts University found that when rats ate foods higher in fat and sugar their minds were not as sharp as the minds of rats on a lean diet. (Reported by Self Dishes, which, if the editors are reading, should have more articles and fewer recipes)

Of course, there are some people who are never going to be in the good-looking category. And I am a big fan of self-knowledge, so I applaud anyone who can admit this. (Note of personal limitation: I could never admit this, and I would kill any worker who kept candy by my desk.) Here is some useful advice from Marty Nemko about how to improve your earning power even if you are ugly: Career Advice for the Unattractive.


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5 Comments »

I love your blog content! Especially because I just started a diet and I figure for every pound I lose my salary is bound to go up…

I just recommended your blog to 300 of my closest friends. :)

Hey, thanks for the compliment! Makes my day.

Penelope

Interesting that you think THIN people get the jobs. When I was a size 6, I got hit on by a lot of upper managers, other female co-workers would not want to assist me because in their words “I had everything”.
I have also noticed and worked for a lot of upper level female managers earning 100 K plus who weight at least 200lbs. No joke. So I think that blows your theory of pretty thin people get jobs out of the water.
By the way the average women is size 16.

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