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10 career quotes, my take, and TGIF

In honor of everyone getting ready for Miller Time on Friday afternoon after a hard week punching out widgets for The Man, I collected a few career quotes and made a few comments. Working at home is no picnic. I’m woozy staying up until 10:30 thanks to a particularly demanding boss (Little Buddy) […]

the big present I gave my first employer

Note: this post was directly inspired by some of the comments on yesterday’s post.
When I was a young fellow, fresh out of accounting MBA school, I had a prestigious job working for one of the (at the time) six biggest accounting firms in the world. It was a small office, but it was […]

reader question: “I forgot WIDD”

I had an interesting question from NH Mom of 3 about my WIDD idea. A WIDD, in case you don’t remember, is a “what I done did” file - a record you keep of all of the projects and details of your past positions.
“I wonder, is there a way to “cram” and get down […]

15 reasons why you might not want to be a consultant

The term consultant gets tossed around a little too freely these days, but the core definition of a consultant seems to be “someone brought in from outside a company to give advice.”  Consultants, of course, come in many different packages.  There are consultants who are themselves employees of other companies, there are long-term contracted consultants […]