Category Archives: Career Strategies

How to manage everything from a job hunt to strategies for moving ahead on the job.

Career Strategies: Is Plastic Surgery a Realistic Option?

  In the iconic musical, A Chorus Line,  one of the songs is called “Dance Ten, Looks Three.”  The singer tells the tale of her life’s transformation through surgery on her nose, bottom, and breasts.  You don’t have to listen … Continue reading

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Career Strategies: Getting the Scarce Job

You want to be hired into a glamour job:  magazine writing, book publishing, museum curator, any other highly sought after career.  You have no influential friends who can help.  You need to make a living.  If you’re young it’s school … Continue reading

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Career Strategies: Skip the Sideshows!

Your boss is being reduced to chopped liver by her boss.  Your co-worker is being bullied by some competent mean girls.  Should you intervene?  Your first duty is to stay on the payroll until you want to go.  My experience is that most … Continue reading

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