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U.K. Moves Toward Flexible Work, Yet Stigmas Remain

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for its role in balancing mental and physical health needs in the workforce. According to an article published by Yahoo Finance , women are more likely than men to be working in part-time roles — citing research published by The House of Commons Library which revealed that 37.8% of women in employment were working part-time.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. Women of all ages are launching businesses.

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Why Are You #AdminProud?

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Four years left to retirement, and I think my decision was a good one.” – Shelia Brown, executive assistant, British Columbia Ferry Services. “I I fell into this career as I was working on my MLIS (Masters of Library & Information Science). It has worked out well. To be honest, the career found me!

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

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I would rather buy used books on half.com vs driving in Los Angeles traffic to go the library for free books. Do all the things no one has time to do - write a will, set up your 401k and retirement, organize your tax receipts, organize all your car maintenance files, balance your checkbook. The first time was from my dream job.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

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Now I can just work the job I want and retire happy&# I’m like, you moron, education never stops! Reply John Lister ( @johnlister ) December 14, 2009 at 5:50 pm The cleverest person in the world doesn’t know as much as someone with a library card who’s learned how to use it. I’m done, no more studying!

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

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Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. But when Deb mentioned the words ‘retirement fund’ and I actually barked a laugh, I started to think. (A Their “library&# is built.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

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Your health: In this article we won’t include personal trainers in our definition of a coach but can call them close cousins. Health coaches deal with anything from the energy in your body to diet to the emotion-body connection. For clients of Jo Davis , the work is “[finding] meaning, a career change, retirement or planning for it.”.

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