Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

He rarely got health insurance. At one point, we were completely stressed out about not being insured, and he asked his boss what everyone else was doing, and she said, “Can’t you get insurance from your spouse? I'd like to add one idea from a mentor of mine, who led big organizations in both sectors. Amen to that.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 3, 2010

You can also think of job-hunting as doing the difficult work of connecting with people and looking for an opening in your network, and that’s certainly not something you can do all day. Networking tips for introverts Math essentials for your career Comments (12) Leave a Comment penelope, give me a job. It’s too hard.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Befriend the intern to fire up your career Posted to: Networking | Promoting Yourself July 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us Think of quitting as a networking event. I'd imagine all these apply, especially the network bit, but would you add anything?

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

I'm a business student and I lead a business presentation two weeks ago to the US Director of Recruiting for Cummins, a Fortune 500 company, about Gen Y and recruiting them via social media networking. By the way, I work in health insurance. Subscribe -- free! Wish I would have known that then.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I have found, in adult life, that bureaucracy only gets deeper and deeper, and for someone like me, with Asperger Syndrome, the rules, numbers and conversations that bureaucracy entails is completely overwhelming: IRS, health insurance, 401Ks, I actually have no idea how people cope with this stuff. There could be body language index cards!

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

For some reason, your voice seems to get through to her much better and smoother than mine on topics like frugality etc. : ) She totally looks up to you as a mentor! Posted by kelley on February 2, 2010 at 4:11 pm | permalink | Reply It's all about the network, real or perceived. For me, and for my girlfriend!

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 14, 2010

I actually think that with more data we'd find that engineers cheat less (reasoning: Engineers generally skew toward Asperger's on the autism scale, which is why Microsoft is known for great insurance coverage for Autism spectrum disorders. Besides, people with Asperger's have a hard time lying.)

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Because most farm families today need someone working off-farm, at least for the health insurance. Because most farmers won’t spend the money to spay cats. Is it making a living if the wife works off-farm? Sometimes, when I’m philosophizing about what making a living means, I think about lifestyle. Which brings me to the Amish.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Posted by Amy on September 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm | permalink | Reply It's really interesting to me, 'Lope, that you're such a good networker. Much of the time, when I network I fall into "hypnotic pacing", where I'm copying the other person's demeanor back at them.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 30, 2010

For someone with a social/professional networking company, this is very odd! he said he'd announce when they go up in the ask penelope trunk network at brazen. We are qualified, experienced, insured and licensed plumbers available round the clock. Newspaper archives are fully searchable by the public.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Your career is only as strong as your network! Posted by CeCe on February 11, 2010 at 2:40 pm | permalink | Reply My working life has been one series of career mistakes after another, but the most amazing was three months working as a life insurance salesman in New Jersey. Let’s do lunch! So I lied.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

My farmer has two sisters, so there's perpetually an undercurrent of whether the agreements/life insurance/inheritances have been sorted out. Everyone you talk to has stories about (decades-long) feuds related to division of farm assets, wills, etc.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It's easier to jump in (albeit perhaps at a lower level) after taking time off if you have more experience and a stronger network in your hip pocket. My husband and I are higher earners, and we had great insurance, but we still had to come out of pocket A GREAT AMOUNT to pay for our daughter's treatment.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. As a Gen-Y who stopped going to college I found that real life experiences, networks and self education were more important and vital than a college education for my career track.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I'm surprised that people seem to think that single women aren't blogging; the 20 Something Bloggers network features many single female bloggers. The school sent him to a hospital not on my medical insurance plan where he was treated as an emergency case. Jen's observation wasn't incorrect, though.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 3, 2010

This can inevitably grow your network/career. ' Readers that follow you for ages may understand that it was passing or fluid, but an employer or distant mentor could look at that and completely misjudge your stance or capabilities. A married (or common law) couple in Canada can split the 9 months available for new baby leave.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 25, 2010

The case is this: Plaintiff's estate is suing my client and the client's auto insurer for texting while on I-94 on the way to Milwaukee. So there's that. And now I can combine my job with your texting blurb. I just got a new case in.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

So, I decided that part of the reason that things in this world are the way that they are, the reason I had to wonder whether the baby bottles I bought contained toxic BPA, the reason that there was not affordable day care, the reason that society would tolerate throwing anorexic girls out of treatment after the insurance expired and the reason that (..)

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