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I got the following question in my Ask Brian email.
Please help! I am a thirty something male with questionable fashion sense of my own, and thus do not feel qualified to offer any guidance in this area.
Perhaps a reader more qualified than I can pass along some advice in the comments.
I have a question. […]

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I wrote about this before.
It’s time to get excited!
If this sort of thing keeps up, we might have all you can eat (voice, data, text messaging, etc.) plans for less than $100 by the end of the year!

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Reader Iris writes in:
I went for an interview about a month ago and got invited for a second interview which I had two weeks ago. They initially said that a decision would be made in a […]

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When a company is doing well, it will rhapsodize often about how its “most valuable asset” is its “people.” But when a company is doing badly, those “assets” quickly become their most expensive (and thus expendable) expenses.
I thought this post from Valleywag summed it up so nicely, I have to quote the whole thing:
Nortel, the […]

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WiseBread has an interesting post up outlining 5 ways you can save money by taking advantage of office resources.
Now, we all know it’s not a good idea to steal pens from work or make copies for your kid’s science project on office machines. At least too much.
Right? We’ve all done it to some extent. Taken […]

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Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. Hopefully, you weren’t also affected by the FPL power outages.
It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but […]

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I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Modite. She has a great post up about real world networking. As I was reading her tips, I was reminded of my own experiences networking and the networking methods I’ve seen work for my clients over the years.
It occurs to me that most people think the […]

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Last week I had post about asking for a raise. Reader Rachael had this comment:
Is there a general rule about how often raises should be requested? I’ve been thinking about asking but I don’t know if […]

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A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
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You’ve probably seen the first video, but if you haven’t, it’s here.

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/40_Things_I_Wish_I_Knew_When_I_Started_My_Career’;A conversation with some friends this weekend led to this list forming in my head. Feel free to add your own in the comments. If I like them, I’ll add them to the list.

The career you think you’re going to have? This is not the career you’re going to end up with. The […]

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