Blog Profile / Brazen Careerist
| URL : | http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Career & Jobs / Career Advice | |
| Posts on Regator: | 542 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 12, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Zero tolerance for domestic violence is wrong
It's been four days since I documented my own domestic violence, in almost real-time, between me and the Farmer. The most common response I've heard is some variation of: "Zero tolerance for domestic abuse!"
And you know what? I have zero tolerance for things I am not prone to tolerate as well. That’s easy, isn’t it?
It’s much harder [...]
Most popular posts of 2011
I think this year was a year of me looking for stuff. Trying to figure stuff out. Maybe trying to figure out what I'm looking for.
I was also the year I discovered pictures for my blog, and I even redesigned the whole blog so the photos are more prominent. So it makes sense to me [...]
The psychology of quitting
I am at a hotel. I think I'm dying. I have a bruise from where the Farmer slammed me into our bed post.
I took the kids and went to a hotel so I could have time to think. I think I need to move into a hotel for a month.
The Farmer told me that he [...]
Shortcuts to Common New Year's Resolutions
One reason I have achieved so much in my own career is that I’ve taken shortcuts. For example, I played professional beach volleyball without learning how to play indoor sixes very well—I can really only play doubles, which is what people play on the sand. But it allowed me to skip a lot of years of [...]
Secret social skills successful people know
When we were at LegoLand I was struck by the high emotional intelligence of the employees. Their job is to make everyone feel like their Lego project is great. (You'd be surprised how many parents are there, swiping the white blocks from little kids at the Lego snowman contest.) High emotional-intelligence jobs are very hard, [...]
Men get all the VC funding. And that's fine.
This post is cross-posted at TechCrunch.
We need to get more guys who are running tech startups to decide instead to be stay-at-home dads.
What do you think of that? Stupid, right? That’s what it sounds like when anyone suggests that we need to get more women doing startups.
If you are worried that women don’t feel capable [...]
The Value of Fresh Perspective
It is the night of the new nanny. She is maybe a nanny or maybe a Spanish teacher. It is unclear. She is a blog reader who told me she could help me.
Lots of people offer to come to the farm and help me get that mythic work-life balance that no one really has. But [...]
How to Ask Smart Questions
This post is sponsored by the American Cancer Society.
After I realized that the most underrated skill is asking good questions, I realized that I am not very good at it. I don’t ask for help enough because I don’t know what question to ask. And also, I worry the question will be bad and then the [...]
Living Up to Your Potential
I confess that I don’t feel like I’m working to my potential. And it makes me feel sick. I know the signs. It starts with me not being able to cope with my to-do list. It all looks too overwhelming. So I scale things back: I take out everything that has to do with starting [...]
December is a great time for your career
I know you’re thinking that the workplace is dead between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but actually, December is a great time for careers. Here are five reasons why: 1. Job hunting is great in December. January is the biggest month for hiring, but December is the second-best month for a job hunt. This is because people have budget [...]
How Successful People Deal with Asperger's
I get an incredible amount of email from people with Asperger Syndrome. It’s all really similar. Here’s a sample:
“I’m 45 and a lawyer and I have Aspergers. I don't know what is appropriate, and not appropriate some of the time, such as talking too much about very personal info, or saying something that offends someone.
“I've [...]
Make Your Work More Meaningful
This post is sponsored by the American Cancer Association.
Take a look at Steve Martin's business card. I love it because it brings to light the lack of meaning we often feel during the daily routine of work life.
When I was new to the workforce, I saw two ends of a spectrum. On one end, risking [...]
How to find a job you'll love
My homeschool blog was mentioned in the New York Times this week. It's a small mention, but it's a big deal for me, because lately I've been obsessed with how people learn, and what makes a successful adult. It's appropriate that the Times would link the day I wrote about what my day is like [...]
Blogging Bootcamp is Stupid
Last week I announced that I’m doing a week-long series on how to blog.
Then I received an onslaught of emails reminding me of how I have always said that it’s stupid to try to earn money blogging. Here’s the post where I outline the rationale for this. But the bottom line is that making money [...]
Blogging Bootcamp with Penelope Trunk
I’m doing a series of webinars about how to blog.
I will teach you how to set goals for blogging and meet them, continuously. I’ll also show you how to develop an approach to blogging that will get you noticed by people you care about very quickly. The bootcamp takes place November 14-18. You can sign [...]
How to Stave off Loneliness
Melissa and I had a fight yesterday. We have this fight once or twice a month. Someone who neither of us knows well will ask Melissa something about me just out of an odd curiosity about my life. Something stupid, like, What’s Penelope doing for Thanksgiving?
It’s stupid, yes, but I think it’s even more stupid [...]
Meditation vs. Medication
Sometimes people ask me how I get ideas for blog posts. Really, the question is how do I find enough time to let everyone know about everything that bugs me?
For example, here are photos I’ve been holding onto for a while. It’s a series of the dumbest engagement photos ever. But wait. Before you click [...]
What Startup Life's Really Like
(This post was originally published on Venture Beat. This photo is by Melissa.)
Brazen Careerist is my third startup. People ask me all the time why I gave up my position as CEO. If you knew what startup life was really like, you would ask me why I was CEO for as long as I was.
When [...]
Finance Tips for the Self-Employed
This is probably what you think self-employed looks like:
I'm at an amusement park with my kids, in the middle of the week, and I'm on a conference call while I watch my son try to get on a ride.
Being self-employed looks so nice at an amusement park. The self-employed are always free to go on [...]
How School Affects Future Earnings
The best way to understand earning power—no matter what your age—is to understand the factors that go into it. For example, most people who have careers that are plateauing usually have a learning problem that manifests itself as an earning problem.
And for parents, schooling discussions are really earning discussions. Because you can say that kids [...]