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  • Life Changing Advice – Part 3 Networking

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    Tweet In my last post about life changing career advice, I decided that networking needed a post of it’s own.  It’s that important. How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s all in who you know.”  From almost the first day I stepped foot onto the Corporate landscape, manager after manager would drill into…

  • Life Changing Advice – Part 2

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    Tweet I promised to follow up my last post with life changing advice I received relative to a person’s career.  As I look back, I’ve gotten some pretty awesome advice and people in my life made a big difference in the choices I made.  My parents didn’t have much to go on, so I had…

  • Life Changing Advice – Part 1

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    Tweet I’ve read a couple of articles recently that inspired me to be a little introspective today.  Growing up, my parents were constantly spewing advice and world views that I thought was bat-shit crazy half the time.  I made great efforts to try to ignore them and  by the age of 13, I decided I…

  • Being Too Chicken To Try New Things

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    Tweet Babci’s chickens finally moved into their new 4×8 shed that I spent the last 2 months building. I still have to put up some trim around the doors and windows but it is fully functional.  I’ve dubbed it the “Taj Ma Fowl” as it’s a huge upgrade from the rabbit cage that the chickens…

  • Funks and Allowing yourself to Rest

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    Tweet I often remind myself of the Hare from the Tortoise and Hare fable. I run around like a madwoman for weeks or months on end and then I  crash for a while, just to do it all over again.  Over the past couple of weeks, all I’ve wanted to do with my free time…

  • Skiing and Making the Most of What You Have

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    Tweet One of the great things about living in the Berkshires is that it is filled with outdoor activities year round.   I literally can see the local ski mountain as I drive home from work.  It takes all of 10 minutes to get there from my house.  Bousquet was one of the first ski mountains…

  • How to Take a Break from Toxic People

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    Tweet I’m back. Life was hectic, the holidays were upon us and I had 1001 things I wanted to get done during my 1.5 weeks off from work. After about thing 271 I realized that I’m insane and I needed to try to do a little less with my time. I think this is part…

  • Low Cost Activism

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    Tweet Last week I wrote an article on Feminism that spurred quite a lot of comments. If you like you could go back to the original article and read it, but the jist of the message was this.  I stand up for myself, I lead by example, but I do not call out sexism for…

  • Am I a Feminist?

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    Tweet  How I dealt with Sexual Harassment at Work Back when I was 19, I did a co-op assignment in the UK for a year.  I worked at a small specialty chemicals company that dealt with a lot of cyanide chemistry.  I worked in the lab doing various experiments and it wasn’t long before I…

  • Coffee Talk: My Desk is a Clutter Magnet

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    Tweet Welcome to another addition of Coffee Talk. The subject of this month’s writing challenge is as follows: Use a Household item as a Metaphor to teach a life or personal finance lesson In addition to an article of my own, at the bottom of this post, I will be linking to other great bloggers…