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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Maybe back in 2004 or 1999. But I have friends who are $15,000 in debt in personal loans for pricey media schools that they didn't finish, or worse one friend who's $75,000 in debt for 4 years and has another year and half for her teaching certificate and wants to go to grad school. Right now, it's not. Not now though.

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How to get unstuck in life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Even if I manage to do that, I will not feel like I have accomplished something important today. And then, when it turns out that it really does mean sleep inducing I didn’t feel accomplished. Once you are drama free, you could actually focus on accomplishing more goals. Who puts a word like that in a picture caption?

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Thanksgiving drama on steroids: Adding a family business to the.

Penelope Trunk

Like, the sweetness of the farmer and his parents working side by side for twenty years to pay off the farm, and the cleverness of the farmer figuring out how to be part of the local food movement without organic certification. When I first met the farmer and his parents I saw rolling fields, warm milk and grass-finished meat.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

After all, I am the mother of one of them — one who has comopletely turned her life around and has grown into an accomplished, goal-oriented, college student — having learned perserverance, patience, and purpose, and who is seeking to inspire others as she hangs perilously close to the pounding hoofs of a half ton of animal.

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