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How Toxic Positivity Can Hurt Your Finances

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Pushing off conversations about life insurance, retirement savings or long-term care doesn’t protect you from the negative feelings the subjects bring up. If you push those thoughts away and try to distract yourself, they’ll likely return louder and more assertive. Instead, consider engaging with that voice and asking it questions.

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Day in the life: Donna Lindsay

Practically Perfect PA

Supporting Senior Management with PA assistance in helping develop legislation for the Scottish Government. . Apart from resisting all the cakes and sweets in the office it is probably ensuring that I am managing my time efficiently. I would like to have been a primary school teacher, but now I would say retired!!

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From the Archives: What It Means to Be a Precedent Breaker

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“How is it, I should like to ask,” said an indignant member of the Harvard University medical faculty, at one of its meetings, some forty years ago, “that after eighty years in which this faculty has been managing its own affairs, and doing it well, it is now proposed to change all our modes of carrying on the school?” “I

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Overqualified and Interviewing

Office Dynamics

Seeking better benefits; health, retirement, education assistance or flexible schedule. I needed health insurance and retirement opportunities and wanted to stay within the industry I had most of my career experience in. Returning after a career gap due to health, caregiving, education, etc. Changing career field.

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Introduce Yourself to Yourself

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” and the answer is “I want to work for this company until I retire, and I’ll do my best to keep my job,” it may be the answer your spouse or friends expect from you. Perhaps you would really like to work for a top executive instead of a middle manager. If so, you’re operating on automatic pilot!

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State of the Administrative Profession

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Continuing, she explained there were several issue areas: Seasoned assistants (not being seasoned, but the fact that all that knowledge will retire in 5-7 years) who will replace them? Managers who do not know how to utilize administrative assistants in new ways. The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.”

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State of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Continuing, she explained there were several issue areas: Seasoned assistants (not being seasoned, but the fact that all that knowledge will retire in 5-7 years) who will replace them? Managers who do not know how to utilize administrative assistants in new ways. The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.”