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Meditation vs. Medication

Posted to: Self-management
October 31st, 2011
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Sometimes people ask me how I get ideas for blog posts. Really, the question is how do I find enough time to let everyone know about everything that bugs me?
For example, here are photos I’ve been holding onto for a while. It’s a series of the dumbest engagement photos ever. But wait. Before you click [...]

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What startup life is really like

Posted to: Entrepreneurship
October 26th, 2011
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(This post was originally published on Venture Beat. This photo is by Melissa.)
Brazen Careerist is my third startup. People ask me all the time why I gave up my position as CEO. If you knew what startup life was really like, you would ask me why I was CEO for as long as I was.
When [...]

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Finance Tips for the Self-Employed

October 19th, 2011
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This is probably what you think self-employed looks like:
I'm at an amusement park with my kids, in the middle of the week, and I'm on a conference call while I watch my son try to get on a ride.

Being self-employed looks so nice at an amusement park. The self-employed are always free to go on [...]

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How School Affects Future Earnings

October 17th, 2011
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The best way to understand earning power—no matter what your age—is to understand the factors that go into it. For example, most people who have careers that are plateauing usually have a learning problem that manifests itself as an earning problem.
And for parents, schooling discussions are really earning discussions. Because you can say that kids [...]

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When It's OK to Take a Pay Cut

Posted to: Fulfillment | Job Hunt | Money
October 14th, 2011
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The farmer is separating his farm from his parents' farm. To say this has been a summer full of drama would be a total understatement. I would say that the drama has gone from his larger family, to our little family, and now, to the economics of the farm.
This is probably where the drama should [...]

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Techniques for Looking Normal

October 11th, 2011
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Last week was a board meeting for my company, Brazen Careerist. I used to hate the board meetings because there is so much to prepare beforehand, and if everything is not going great, then you have to really face that.
1. Hide your feelings if they are going to be trouble for someone.
I am still a [...]

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Resume Advice You Never Hear

Posted to: Resumes
October 5th, 2011
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When I had my second son, I had a nervous breakdown. I’m not sure exactly what the cause was. But things were bad. I had a three-year-old with autism, a baby with a facial deformity that required a team of ten different types of doctors, and no family helping me, and I didn’t take maternity [...]

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How to Know What to Look For

Posted to: Finding a career
October 3rd, 2011
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We have a huge vegetable garden. While the Farmer was planting huge crops of corn and hay, I was planting twenty types of vegetables. I have not bought vegetables from the store since May, when the first lettuce was ripe.
This is a picture of me digging through our forty tomato plants.

When I was putting them [...]

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