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Brazen Careerist Lesson #4: Manage personal life
"Although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources to do some thing about them." -- Henry Ford In Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk states that…
Career & Money – Part 9: Re-pot, Re-invent, Re-visit
Once you land a job or start your business, the game is over, right? You'll be happy and content forever and you'll never need the tips and techniques from this…
Career-Related and Queer-Related News Clipping
Sexual harassment or discrimination of any kind on the job can be a devastating event both emotionally and financially. This kind of emergency is among those that an emergency fund…
Brazen Careerist Lesson #3: Thirty is the new twenty
"The best career advice to give to the young is to find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." -- Katherine Whitehorn…
Gay Executive Life: Headhunters!
Welcome to a new series by Queercents called "Gay Executive Life". What's it really like to be an executive at a global corporation? What are the perks, the trials, the…
Procrastination Can Be Fun, But Not for Finances
It's amazing how many strategies exist for killing procrastination. Lifehacker has perhaps the best self-help compilation because they link to everything that helps you understand, combat or even make procrastination…
Brazen Careerist Lesson #2: Professional Development
"A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time." -- William C. Feather Recently, I wrote about my Lesson #1 of the Brazen…
Career & Money – Part 8: Making the Most of Your Career
Now that you've either landed the job or started your own business you need to make the most of it. Even if you've been in the same job a long…
Weekend Entrepreneur: ‘Gigging’ Can Be a Lucrative Hobby
It isn't a new profession but, as I have recently begun to understand, it has found new and more global venues. Gigging is really just a euphemism for freelancing. Freelancers…
Not So Starving Artists: 4 tricks
Trick One: Stop "Big Break" Thinking. For a while I checked my email before bed expecting to see a letter asking if Faith Hill could buy a few of…