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This is a great time to make a career change

Penelope Trunk

All the best research about personal development comes from the diet industry because there’s so much money to be made if you can figure out how to help people lose weight. I’m really banking on that being true because I’ve been saying if for five years. If you have developer chops to learn cloud development do that.

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Frugality is a career tool | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

I was interested in starting a fitness blog, a technical software blog, a personal development blog and a general personal blog 2 years ago. Lots of job and career changes. One could say that your endless pursuit of career flexibility has paradoxically had the opposite effect in your life. Not to dis you, though.

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My birthday post | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

It is funny to see that it was written just three years ago, but according to the development of the work market, it seems that the post was written 20 years ago. Finding out that there is more money in my banking account than previously thought. Whenever someone writes to tell me how much they appreciate my writing.

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BNET Column: Forget the job hunt. Have a baby instead. | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

And they want to continue developing skills even though they are not employed. Second-choice escape from reality: Travel, which is not as valuable to your personal development as holding down a job. There is a huge uptick in the number of grad school applications during a recession, but grad school is a lame way to dodge a recession.

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