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Seasonal Overwhelm? Here’s Your Sanity-Saving Guide

Tips From T. Marie

For me, seasonal overwhelm is a combination of my granddaughter’s soccer practices and games, seasonal activities like apple picking and pumpkin carving parties, increased client projects, and trying to plan for the fast-approaching holiday season. Plus, the end of the fiscal year coincides with the holiday season.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

Success

In decades gone by, the only perk you might have received from your boss was a fruit basket around the holidays. It concluded that programs are most likely to fail if they aren’t integrated properly into a “comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy.”

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The Good and Bad of Freelancing

Small Business Labs

Having to generate, fight for, promote, and defend your work can be downright exhausting. And forget about holidays. Paying out of pocket for health care (not everyone qualifies for the Freelancers Union), quarterly taxes, accounting, bookkeeping, promotion, marketing, negotiations, pre and post project management.

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The Realities of Job Hunting As A High Level Executive Assistant

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Perhaps you are already a 2nd or 3rd assistant to someone high profile and you want to run the office of your executive as you get promoted through the years. If you say you're willing to negotiate for the right role, at least talks can continue. Here are some tips as your career progresses that will affect how you job hunt.

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Answering Reader Mail: The Other Assistant Isn't As Qualified - Should I Express My Interest?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Successful executives are rarely lazy and slow if they earned their title from being promoted through hard work and not nepotism, etc. Can you work on weekends and/or holidays? This also could be an objective assessment from anyone. You mentioned: I really would like to align myself with this new senior leader.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

They also walk the fine line of wanting someone who knows the job, but not so well that they are bored and were ready for a promotion 3 years ago. I would ask how long the temp status was for, and negotiate a deal that makes sense for you to not have sick days, paid holidays, benefits, etc. In hindsight, I am 99.9%

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

I was also able to promote a task to a project in Assess. No more arguing or negotiating, I just started to code it. Promoting An iPhone App If you’re an independent developer, you gotta take into account the promotion part. I won’t cover the details of promoting my app in this post, it will take too long.

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