When you listen to celebrities being interviewed about their success, they often end up talking about their failures. They reflect on how many times they were rejected and how, if you want to achieve your goals in life, falling flat
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Career Moves to Make If You’re Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
Many Americans now, unfortunately, know the feeling of living paycheck to paycheck, due to rising costs of living, high barriers to entry in the job market, and stagnating wages. This is leaving many with the feeling that there is little
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Why Being A Perfectionist Is Holding You Back in Your Career
It is the age of perfectionism. This generation of workers has been developmentally bombarded with ideas of perfection, from being rewarded with gold stars for every achievement to images of photoshopped bodies on every street corner. In this world, you
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3 Things You’re Doing That Are Holding Back Your Earning Potential
Let’s take a minute to think about your last paycheck. Picture it in your mind. Do you feel satisfied? Okay about it, but it could be better? Complete disappointment? No matter what you think about how much you make, I
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How the Art of Small Talk Will Improve Your Career
The art of small talk, no matter how scary it may seem, could be your most useful skill when it comes to advancing in your career. If you are anything like me, you dread small talk. You may not care
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The Most In-Demand Skill of the Future
Every day technology is increasingly taking over every aspect of our lives. There almost isn’t a single instance in which technology has not made its presence known. Artificial Intelligence has allowed technology to take over even the most mundane of
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3 Important Factors to Consider When Deciding If You Should Go Back to School
As fall quickly approaches, parents throughout the country work feverishly to get their kids ready for the new school year. This leads many parents and other adults to reflect on their own education and consider whether or not they should
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What is Hustle Culture and How to Avoid Burnout
Popularized by sleep-deprived millennial college students, hustle culture is a societal trend that promotes intense and continuous hard work, suggesting that professional achievements are only awarded as a result of “the grind.” This involves balancing jobs, internships, and classes with
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10 Jobs That Didn’t Exist 10 Years Ago
2019 is already well on its way and new work opportunities are cropping up every day. Since 2009, our world has changed quite a lot, and that includes jobs. Here are 10 careers that didn’t even exist a decade ago:
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Transforming a Disability Into a Specialty
I’ve mentioned on the blog before that I’m an avid 60 Minutes watcher and recently they featured a story on Chris Downey, a blind architect (yes you read right). Chris Downey lost his sight ten years ago after brain surgery
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