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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

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For us, that might be finding a sommelier class, taking a pasta-making class with friends or hands on learning about digital currency. When you’re trying to optimize your learning around a budget, it’s best to determine your goal , and keep it in front of you when you start signing up for classes. Keep learning.

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The Right Way to Share Problems at Work With Your Boss 

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There are numerous reasons employees might not speak up at work, from fearing backlash from bosses in charge of their promotions and salary to worrying about how it will impact their reputation. Just as you would negotiate a salary with comparisons, it is important to highlight data that could benefit the implementation of your idea.

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The Pricing Battle: Charging for Your Time or Charging for Results/Value

Stephanie LH Calahan

  In a typical employer/employee model, it is the same model that we learned in our first minimum wage job show up and work and get paid for the time put in. " 2 - Comparison to their own hourly evaluation of themselves.   In a typical employer/employee model, this is similar to someone that is on a salary

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Everyone Pays When Companies Don’t Live up to Their Organizational Purpose

Energage

And in the midst of all this, you learn the CEO of your company—your leader—has taken home a mind-blowing performance bonus. For a direct comparison look no further than Financial Services, whose reputation is now slightly higher than that of the pharmaceutical firms (see Fig 1). The company agrees to a $465M settlement with the U.S.

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The Art of the Side Hustle

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The book devotes significant space to the importance of the side hustle, an opportunity to learn something new on your own time. Loper took back his own financial life when he took his original side hustle , a comparison-shopping site for footwear, into a full-time business.

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How to Work for A Difficult Boss

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Again, I want to learn how to cope with it for my career (this is a major position for a resume) because I know it's him and not me. If you can learn to work with them, you have skills that 99.9% So again, you will need to learn how to “tune him out” yet pay enough attention to details to do your job well. of the EAs don’t have.

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My thoughts on the multi-VA model

Virtual Moxie

And everyone is willing to teach everyone else, so you raise your net value by learning things you would have just turned down on your own. Plus add to that the fact that I make a fantastic (and steadily increasing) salary! And several (more than I care to count) promise I’ll be well on my way to a six-figure salary.

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