Career & Employment

The Difficulties Of Pregnancy: Why More Should Be Done For Working Pregnant Women

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I’d like to highlight how difficult it is to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and work while pregnant. My hope is the more aware people are about the difficulties of pregnancy, the more compassion there will be for pregnant women and moms in general. I’ve come across too many heartless folks who make pregnant women feel uncomfortable at […]

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How To Answer The “What Is Your Biggest Weakness?” Interview Question

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When you’re interviewing for a company, sometimes the interviewer will ask: What is your biggest weakness? This is a difficult question to answer. If not careful, you could blow yourself up for sounding too confident, arrogant, or false. Why Interviewers Ask “The What Is Your Biggest Weakness?” Question When an interviewer asks “What is your

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How To Negotiate A Severance: Don’t Get Fired Or Quit, Get Laid Off Instead

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This article will teach you how to negotiate a severance package and break free from a job you dislike. Life is too short to keep doing something that brings you no meaning, purpose, or happiness. I am the bestselling author of How To Engineer Your Layoff: Make A Small Fortune By Saying Goodbye. The book

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A Son Who Doesn’t Love Me, But A Daughter Who Hopefully Will

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I don’t think there’s enough support for fathers and stay at home dads. Men also don’t share their issues and feelings as readily as women for some reason. As a result, I’d like to change this by sharing more fatherhood stories and raising awareness about what many fathers go through in silence. This post is

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The Largest Severance Package Ever For Destroying A Company

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The largest severance package is over one billion dollars! Let me share with you who got such a record severance package amount and why you can negotiate a severance package as well. Over the years, I’ve received some doubt from three types of people regarding the feasibility of negotiating a severance package. The first set

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The Most Important Tip For Job Hoppers: Join People, Not Firms

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Now is the most exciting time for job hoppers everywhere. The economy is rebounding. The light is at the end of the tunnel for when the pandemic will end. I’m convinced we’ll see more employee turnover across all industries than over the past two years combined. There are people itching to leave their firms for better opportunities

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Nature Will Dictate The Best Time For Parents To Go Back To Work

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The best time for parents to go back to work is dictated by nature. You don’t have to overthink things too much once you’ve run the financial numbers. Over the past two years, I’ve gotten to know another stay-at-home dad in the neighborhood. Bob has a boy who is also two years old. We try

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Warning! Beware Of Revealing Your Financial Independence Plans Too Soon

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Revealing your financial independence plans too soon is a mistake. As the pioneer of the modern-day FIRE movement who has established FIRE rules, premature revelation is a no-no! When I started Financial Samurai in July 2009, I only told my Japanese colleague who sat next to me, nobody else. I didn’t want any colleagues who

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