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6 Easy Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance

Professional Assistant Blog

Create a budget! Go out with friends, take a hot bath, listen to some music, join a club or take a class. Imagine that the end of the world is near. Picture what you would do in the last moments of your time. Try to do these things in your life starting today. Finances can weigh people down and create problems in relationships.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some assistants regularly manage small budgets when planning functions or have bookkeeping responsibilities and work regularly on spreadsheets. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work. Finance: An assistant with a head for numbers may be able to move into finance in an accounting or a tax firm.

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Do you ask for permission or forgiveness? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

megs’ worth of PDF. Forty-five minutes later, I open the PDF, and the first thing I see is a spelling mistake. Lobbying about budget cuts. Even in a networking setting when someone gives me their business card, I ask whether it’s OK to put them on my list. There was an attachment. Messenger services.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

They have a budget. As of now, my website is more like a business card – something I can point prospective clients towards after I’ve already made initial contact. We just have to factor in a superannuation plan when we write up our business plans and budgets. Most bloggers are cheap-asses.

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