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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Reflect on this cavalier expression a bit longer, though, and you’ll find it also flings the problems of hunger and poverty across international waters to a foreign continent that may as well be imaginary to the average American mind. A food desert is an urban community whose residents need to travel a mile or more to get to a grocery store.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Internal & External Training. Magazine Subscriptions. Support for an Internal PA Network. Salary Increase. Internal & External Training: The first external conference that I ever attended was Square Meal Venues and Events. This eventually enabled me to then request paid internal and external training.

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“EAs Need Better Press.” Agreed. Solving the EA PR Problem Once and For All

Bonnie Low Kramen

Until March, 2020 brought travel to a screeching halt, I had worked in 14 countries and 38 states. Do the research on your salary. Given a choice, advocate for salary versus hourly compensation. In our current environment, the issue has gotten more complicated because of the invisibility factor of working from home. Not so fast.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Nine months after calling off her wedding, she was managing a remote hospital in Darfur, Sudan, that served internally displaced Sudanese refugees. With my husband working long hours and regularly away for travel, I was already stretched thin mothering three children. I recall slapping my face to reset the image.

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How to Work for A Difficult Boss

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

As I mentioned, I'm interviewing for a very high profile position next week for a Chairman of a major international company. I'm not looking for a glossy, Christian magazine answer. I don’t know if it’s the salary, benefits, career advancement, or to say you have a job. I seriously want this job. What is that line for you?

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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