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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. You’ll outgrow it like your baby clothes, and then you have a choice to either try to contort yourself back into it or to leave.” For example, starting a nonprofit may not be the best choice for someone with no business experience.

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4 Things You Must Do for Your Career in 2017

On The Job

Then think about how you would like a potential employer to drag up something you said on Facebook in 2004 and hold you accountable for it. In ancient times, an undershirt made of really coarse cloth -- or even animal hair or twigs -- was worn close to the body as a way to show repentance and atonement.

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

When questions came in, for example, she would note them down, then sit with Dukakis at a set time to secure answers. One perk of working for a star is the clothes, she said: “One assistant I knew was the same shoe size as her celebrity, so she got all her hand-me-down designer shoes.”

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

Success

She’s been to a concert on each Beyoncé tour since 2004, has a personal record of reading seven novels on a four-day vacation, has lived in 10 places in 10 years and completed five half-marathons. Impact : As a plus-size woman, Alexander understands the common struggle of finding clothing that fits and inspires confidence.

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Take control of the economy; darn your socks

Loosely Speaking

If you wear nice wool or alpaca socks, for example, you’ll want to make them last. The pair I will use as my example were knit (by me) of yarn that isn’t really suited to socks but I loved it and made them out of it anyway. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Dany Garcia is the chairwoman of The Garcia Companies, a global holding company, the owner of the XFL, the founder of GSTQ, a new clothing line and community and the co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions. Now one of the youngest top Latino leaders in real estate, German is a true example of the American dream. Dany Garcia.

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