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Browsing category "Career fulfillment"

Live video chat: How to find career fulfillment

Posted to: Career fulfillment
March 18th, 2010
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I keep wanting to use the word webinar, but I can't decide if it is too jargony. This  lexical conundrum reminds me of when the word workout went mainstream. It sounded too jargony  to me, and I used to say go-to-the-gym and a not-so-snappy stand-in.
Should I use the word webinar?
Should I tell you how many [...]

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Almost a review of Seth Godin's book, Linchpin

February 15th, 2010
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Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin, has arrived. I read it on the farmer’s sofa.
The farmer is going through a midlife crisis. It’s not really a midlife crisis, though. As an expert on the process of coming of age in one’s twenties, I’d have to say that the farmer is actually going through a quarterlife crisis.
Typically, [...]

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How to hit a wall at work, with grace

December 22nd, 2009
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I am lost. I have been lost before in my career. It’s just that I did not write about it while it was happening. I wrote about it after the fact. That’s much easier. But in the past, during the time I was lost, I simply stopped writing.
For example, I quit playing volleyball and went to [...]

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Obama. Wow. And one thing about work.

Posted to: Career fulfillment
October 9th, 2009
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I was in the process of setting up Dora the Explorer for my four-year-old so that I could make breakfast. But when Yahoo popped up on the screen, I paused. Then I said, "Look. There's President Obama. He won a big award."
My son said, "For what?" Then he pointed to an advertisement for Target — [...]

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How to find the right job for you

September 23rd, 2009
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We reorganized the company today. We brought in a new, interim CEO, who’s not me. For many entrepreneurs, that is their worst nightmare.
But I couldn’t be happier. For one thing, it’s a sign that my company, Brazen Careerist, is doing well. Remember when the company was running out of money and my electricity was getting [...]

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How to find work with a flexible schedule

August 4th, 2009
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Most of us think of a dream career as one that affords us flexibility for personal relationships and high engagement for personal growth. And while flexible work used to be limited to women, USA Today reports that increasingly, men, too, feel stress from the personal impact of inflexible work. So the question for everyone is: What's the best [...]

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What's the connection between abortion and careers?

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Women
June 17th, 2009
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I have had two abortions.
The first one was when I was twenty-seven. I was playing professional beach volleyball. I was playing volleyball eight hours a day and I spent two hours a day at the gym. I noticed that I was getting tired more easily, but I thought it meant I needed to train harder.
Then [...]

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Career decisions shed light on health care crisis solutions

Posted to: Career fulfillment
June 4th, 2009
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One way to understand the possibilities for solving the US health care crisis is to take a better look at how people make career decisions.
I have a lot of doctors in my family and lots of friends who are doctors, so I’m reasonably familiar with the careers of doctors, and I’m astounded that we’re not [...]

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Career lessons from Susan Boyle's success

May 26th, 2009
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I never watch American Idol, or other talent shows. I think I got my fill of them in the 1970s, watching year after year of the mind-numbing Miss American pageant. But there was too much hoop-la with Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent, so I had to see what I was missing. I ended up [...]

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Twentysomething: Why it's smart to quit a job after just two weeks of work

March 11th, 2009
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This is a guest post from Jamie Varon. She's 23 years old. Her blog is called intersected.
Not too long ago, I started a new job, in which I moved my self from point A (college town) to point B (Bay Area). This was supposed to be my career launch. It took me about two weeks [...]

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How to build a career as an artist

February 6th, 2009
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Here's a post for all the people who are trying to be artists. It is not a friendly post. I do not think that people who want to create art need to get paid to do it. Do you get paid to have sex? No. Same thing. You love it, but you just do it [...]

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How to figure out what you should be doing with your life

January 15th, 2009
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There is no other way to figure out where you belong than to make time to do it and give yourself space to fail, give yourself time to be lost. If you think you have to get it right the first time, you won't have the space really to investigate, and you'll convince yourself that [...]

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How to find meaningful work

Posted to: Career fulfillment
September 29th, 2008
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At its core, meaningful work is helping people. But that makes you think you need to save children dying in Africa. But, really, you can push papers for multinational conglomerates and feel like you're doing good for the world. Here's how:
1. Take care of yourself—have the basics covered.
The most important thing about making meaningful work [...]

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3 Things to learn from the crashing careers of the super-rich

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Parenting |  Recruiters
September 22nd, 2008
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The market crash is going to mean a new era of banking, but it is also bringing along with it a few new ideas about how to manage one's career. This is not the first sector to experience catastrophe, but it might be the wealthiest one. And we can all learn a little about managing [...]

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Five signs that your career is about to get vapid

July 30th, 2008
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You can tell if you are avoiding personal growth in your career because you are not feeling challenged. You can tell if you are not feeling challenged if you are not scared. Being scared is what makes life interesting. You should be scared that you are going to fail at something because if you are [...]

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How to be a good manager: Be generous

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Management
May 28th, 2008
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There are a lot of rules for first-time managers. For example, never hold a meeting without an agenda, because if you don't know what you're going to do there, then no one else will know what you're doing, either. But the rule about agendas is a great example, because, like most rules for good [...]

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Why you already know what you should be doing next

May 12th, 2008
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Do you want to know what you should do right now? Do you want to know what your best bet is for your next career? Look at what you were doing when you were a kid. Nothing changes when you grow up except that you get clouded vision from thinking about what you SHOULD do [...]

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Choosing the next company you work for: Leverage research about how Gen Y is parenting

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Parenting
March 28th, 2008
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One of the hardest parts of managing your career is getting clear on what's most important to you in the work you do. And it's ironic that the true-but-clichéd exclamation from new parents – "the kids force me to see what is really important in my life" — comes after we have navigated [...]

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The best career tool is self-knowledge

March 11th, 2008
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Most career questions are actually identity questions. It seems like maybe we need to know which job to take, or which boss is better, or which line to delete on our resume. But really, we need to know who we are.
I learn the most about identity when I'm lost and I have to make a [...]

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The real deal about Gen Y: they're inherently conservative

October 17th, 2007
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The most prestigious place for college grads to get a job today is Deloitte, according to a Business Week story titled, The Best Places to Launch a Career, by Lindsey Gerdes. In fact, the top three choices for Generation Y are all Big 4 accounting firms.
My first thought was, are you kidding me?!?!?!
Because if you [...]

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