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Can I Go into Retirement Early With FIRE?

Success

Do you dream of spontaneously traveling to a new place for a few months? Although the movement feels relatively new, the ideas of the FIRE approach were originally outlined in a book first published in 1992 called Your Money or Your Life , written by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. Who is a good candidate for FIRE?

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Digital nomads are starting to price out local communities around the world

Workplace Insight

Most digital nomads were travelling and working illegally on tourist visas. My research has identified four further categories: digital nomad business owners; experimental digital nomads; armchair digital nomads; and, the fastest emerging category, salaried digital nomads. On a visit to Chiang Mai in 2019, I booked an Airbnb.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

Success

I got a job as a junior features writer with the Indian edition of a teen magazine on a monthly salary of Rs 6,000 (approximately $80), more than half of which went into rent. Having outgrown pop culture and travel listicles, this had been my most challenging assignment. Dinners were skipped or consisted of a cheap street meal.

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Set Stretch Goals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They got promotions, salary increases, developed bet­ter relationships with their executives; they joined committees and chaired events; they set healthy boundaries; they gained immense confidence! Oh heavens, I thought! How do you think a person grows?

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Book Review: Give and Take

Productivityist

As I continue my travels, I''m offering up a guest post from a regular contributor to the blog, Mike Dariano. Mike offers up book reviews here at Productivityist , and he writes about other things he''s learned at People Smarter Than Me. One story is of a software engineer who had high qualifications but a low salary.

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How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Personal Assistant?

C-Suite Assistants

Far too much rests on your shoulders to let calendar planning, telephone calls, travel booking, and other administrative responsibilities interfere with your performance. They save time on prepping material for meetings, creating travel schedules, and enabling executives to make remote decisions. Since 2000, More than 1.6

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The Blended Role of Executive Personal Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

They schedule both business and personal appointments, maintain the calendar, and are responsible for a full range of administrative and personal duties—from managing correspondence and making appointments to booking speaking engagements and event planning. How Much Does a Hybrid Executive Assistant Earn?

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