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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

And who bothers writing out the words e-mail, TV, ASAP or FYI when everyone will know what you mean anyway? My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. Does anyone even know what CNN stands for?

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

There are many teachers in my extended family and it seemed like something I could do well, but our family did not have any money to further my education and I became a secretary instead. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

She saw the importance of this training to help her daughter know the workings of an office from the bottom up and the office benefitted from her educational training. The administrative position can be a springboard for a management position if you want to go in that direction and have the right educational background.

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We don't know what we don't know

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I have always been a believer in sharing ideas and have received my best education from other assistants. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. Here are some ways I have found can help: The web is a wonderful tool for sharing.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you are sent an email with a request to do something either asap or later, did you do it or have you diarized it to do it later? Next week I would like to talk about meeting planning and give you some scheduling tips that have worked well for me. So it is important to read the whole message. I hope you find it helpful.

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Spring cleaning on the blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

Under My Favourites, I have added a Meeting section with some useful sites and combined many of my travel related links under one title simply called Travel. I have also combined all the tutorials, training and other education-related links under the title Training. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice.

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Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog

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My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. I apologize in advance if I offend anyone with my opinions as that is not my intention, especially against those who may have the ability and means to sue me!