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Educational Videos: Taking Quick Smart Actions in a Troubled Career

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Accepting the Reality of a Troubled Career

You know the worst thing about a wonderful career that has turned into a painful day job that you can barely stand?

Accepting this new reality as fact.

Denial and resistance are your worst enemies as you go through the decline of what was once a promising career. I look back and see the time I wasted in the land of denial and resistance – denial that it was happening and resistance to do anything about it. [Read more…] about Educational Videos: Taking Quick Smart Actions in a Troubled Career

12 Corporate Survival Lessons You Must Learn Sooner than Later

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Going from A Scared Worker Bee to A Confident Career Warrior

sad_woman_2When I was 26, new and terrified to the corporate landscape, and desperate for guidance and encouragement, I had this boss. We’ll call him Rafaello Mule. Mr. Mule was bald and ugly. He also had a large head, literally and figuratively speaking. He never ever smiled and few were good enough to engage even in a casual greeting with him.

You would see him in the hallway or in the break room and say hello, he would either look at you in a strange way or completely ignore you. You felt invisible. To him, you barely existed.
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Episode 48: How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting Your Job

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Quitting My Job over Coffee

Welcome back to Episode #48 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting. How to have that conversation in such a way that you continue the relationship with your boss and company, even if you can’t stand your job! This is a dialogue that you want to get right when you are leaving your job and moving on to another opportunity and I tell you step-by-step, word for word, how to have this talk. I also teach you how to have this chat without using the words “quit” “resign” even once! [Read more…] about Episode 48: How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting Your Job

Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

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Starting over is a scary prospect. Our human nature wants to move forward, one foot in front of the other and off we go. We want to blaze trails. We want to climb mountains. We want to sail the seas. We want to fly the skies. And we intend to climb up not down the ladders in our careers and move up not down the financial scale in society.

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So by nature, starting over does not appeal to any of us. Least of all to me! I should know, even though I was spared the brunt of the situation because I was just a kid. My Dad was 40 and my mom in her early 30s when we left Iran for an initial 2-week vacation to Turkey that turned out to be a “vacation” of a lifetime. My parents left everything behind. When they closed the door to our beloved sweet home at 13 Lida Street in Tehran, [Read more…] about Starting Over: It Is Not Too Late for A New Career

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