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Avoid Burnout by Creating Your Own Utopia

Office Dynamics

Other days are spent marking off tasks from a long to-do list and developing more efficient ways to accomplish goals and meet deadlines. Read a few pages of interesting book, take a creative community education class, plan a day trip with your camera, schedule a spa day join a small group (writes, artists, entrepreneurs, parenting, etc.),

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The Worst Mistake Women Can Make

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Work part-time, have a challenging and consistent volunteer position, continue to take classes for certification, return to school, or start your own at-home business. The goal is to have something to write on your resume to show you weren't professionally stagnant.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

And due to outsourcing, Boomers not retiring, and Gen Yers being told (by older generations mind you) to get degrees in their "passion" or that "any degree" is a path to success.you end up with a lot of overworked, underpaid 20somethings. Do you have a goal in mind for your career?

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How I Handled A Reduction in Force

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was taking fun classes and learning new hobbies at night once or twice a week. It was peak #goals, for everything. This admin person was at least twice my age, maybe more, and a few years away from retiring. I was also in a long term relationship and loved my boyfriend’s family. And then, one day, there was a re-org.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Many freelancers don’t have to send their resumes to people anymore, so those degrees don’t see a lot of action, but they’re there, collecting dust on our walls. Look at the names of the classes you chose to take. Figure out what interested you most about every single class you ever took. Remember what you did in them.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It also looks bad on one’s resume. I would rather go to a pilates studio that has classes late at night that fits my work hours vs going to a gym that only costs $30 a month. Take an online class and study at work. And I had to debate with myself if it was worth staying in a job that was pretty great, but not amazing.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

Success

Business goals: You may be starting a business , growing one or closing one, which always entails changing our thinking about business. For clients of Jo Davis , the work is “[finding] meaning, a career change, retirement or planning for it.”. That’s part of the resume, but those descriptions fall short.

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