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
This is the new, more reliable me
Welcome to the world-famous board meeting for Brazen Careerist. For those of you who have not been to a board meeting since I had a miscarriage in the board meeting, let me tell you, this one will not be so interesting. At least at a biological level. What’s interesting, maybe, is that there is always [...]
What to do if you think you're getting fired
First of all, here is a photo of rhubarb cobbler. And this is my food blog post for all of yeterday's commenters who think I would not be a good food blogger. You will love this post: it’s about what to do if you think you’re about to be fired. 1. Be really interesting. And [...]
How to date your co-worker
When we are not in the garden, I obsess about how I want to redesign my blog to look like the Pioneer Woman's blog. I want to be the Pioneer Woman on Suicide Watch. That will be the new title of my blog. I am obsessed with stealing her blog design. Melissa sits in my [...]
Sexual harassment is going high-end
I can't help being giddy that the Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the (now former) head of the IMF, was whisked off his plane at JFK and delivered to one of the most notorious criminal holding arenas in the world, Riker's Island. It's a great story about sexual harassment because it's so hard to nail someone like this. [...]
Prom is a career stepping stone
Our neighbor, Kathy, called to tell us to come over for prom pictures. We had no idea what she was talking about. I told Melissa I was too happy reading Little Bee in the sun. "But," I said, "Kathy is so nice to us. One of us has to go. We have to be good [...]
What it looks like to start a new business
Thanks to American Express OPEN for sponsoring this post as part of the Big Break for Small Business program. Visit FaceBook.com to learn more about the Big Break contest. Enter your small business for a chance to win a trip to Facebook headquarters for a one-on-one business makeover and $20,000 to grow your business with [...]
How to quit every job and still have a good resume
Melissa is back. She stayed with us on the farm a little while over the winter, telling me to shut up, and playing with me in the snow. I think by now you get the picture that Melissa is one of those people who breaks every rule and lands on her feet. One of the [...]
What you can do instead of grad school
I've spent three years writing about how graduate school is a waste of time and money (yes, business school and law school too). So now when radio and TV producers need someone to bitch about graduate school, they call me. Here I am on NPR today. I don’t usually post my interviews, but this one [...]
I'm starting a new company!
In case you don’t remember, I really got exhausted doing Brazen Careerist. The pressure was insane and it made me nearly lose my mind multiple times. Now Ryan Healy is running the company in DC, and I sort of miss the startup life — sort of like women endure labor and then a year later [...]
Good luck to William and Kate!
Melissa is back from Italy right in time for the Royal Wedding. We stayed up all night, but at 2am, we went over to my neighbor's house, because they have a huge TV. Melissa fell asleep. My neighbor, Kathy, stayed up with me. And it was so cozy to sit on the sofa in the [...]
Productive people take time off
The best thing about going to a rural school is that there are not really vacations. I’m not sure why. Maybe because we had bazillion snow days. Or maybe it’s because no one needs two weeks off to go to Bermuda in March. Or maybe it’s because kids need to get out of school early [...]
Unhappiness is good for you
It’s hard to confess to you that I’m happy on the farm. The Farmer and I are getting along well, and all that research about how if parents are in a happy marriage the kids are happier – well, that seems to be true for us. So I spend my days writing career advice and [...]
5 Shortcuts to making yourself more valuable
You hear all this talk aobut how you have to march to your own drummer, think out of the box, blah blah. The truth is, you can’t change anything until you know all the rules. Advice admonishing you to break rules is so shallow. How can you break rules without learning them first? People who understand [...]
How to know if you're an entrepreneur
Here's an interview of me in Inc. magazine. John Warrilow did the interview. The topic was how to know if you're an entrepreneur. I basically said that you know you're an entrepreneur if you are crazy, in a manic way, and you are willing to risk the health of your family and have no chance of [...]
Is a work friend a real friend?
I get my haircuts in Los Angeles because my best friend cuts my hair for free, which means the cost of the plane ticket to LA is cheaper than paying for cut and color in Chicago. Sharon is a color specialist. This is Sharon picking color for a client who Sharon is trying to focus [...]
How to be yourself in an interview
Interview adage: If you can’t get hired being your true self, you don’t want to work there. Life adage: If you’re not comfortable showing your true self then you probably have a disconnect between who you are and who you want to be. You really need to address that before it derails not only your [...]
How to decrease your spending
I just got waxed. Everything off. Here’s a picture of Stephanie in action: I love Stephanie because she is fun to talk to if I feel like talking and she leaves me alone if I feel like sending emails on my iPhone while she waxes. Or taking pictures. I love the feeling of being neat [...]
BNET Column: Beware of the girl ghetto
Why are almost all the bloggers in the Life at Work section at BNET women? I’m worried, because it’s never good for one’s career to be in a room full of women unless you’re a model or a stripper; where there are women there are lower salaries. This is not a case of discrimination. I mean, [...]
Generation Z will revolutionize education
My kids are Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010. And I wonder: what can we see in those kids now that can tell us what they'll be like later, at work? As a history student in college (history of political thought, for all you fans of the Republic) and still an obsessive researcher of [...]
The new rules for self-publishing
I just spent the last two weeks selling my self-published book. I published a book a few years ago with Time Warner, but I wanted to see what it would be like to self-publish. I decided against an ebook format because I myself really like holding the book of an author I love to read. [...]