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Asperger's at work: 5 ways to be less annoying

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- The first step to growing a good career in the face of Aspergers Syndrome is to recognize that this is a social skills deficit, by definition, and work, by definition, is a social skills decathlon. I have written before that for me, the biggest problem at work stems from my own sensory integration dysfunctionsomething that typically tags along with an Aspergers diagnosis. But for someone with Aspe...     11-25
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This is what it looks like to have a hard time making a change

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Some days I look through old posts, reminding myself of posts that I’ve written that I like and that I should link to. Often, this process serves to let me procrastinate writing while pretending to be engaged in writing. If I were a body builder, this would be me looking in the mirror instead of lifting weights.Yesterday I was trolling for posts, and I remembered this one, about hiring a babysitte...     11-20
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How to know if you'll be good at sales

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- It’s clear to me that emotional intelligence is the most important skill for success in adult life. And the consummate career application of emotional intelligence is the sales department. So I’m fascinated by sales. I used to think I’m not that good at sales. For example, I’m an open bookI have very little ability to bluff or play my hand close to myactually, what is that expression? I don’t even...     11-20
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What makes a blog successful?

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- I have always thought that blogging is a way to reach your career goals. It’s hard to write a blog if you don’t have a goal. You need to know what blogging success looks like to you, so you know what youre aiming for. Like most goals in life, my definition of blogging success has shifted as the circumstances of my life have shifted. 1. Post regularly without messing anything up.My first goal was s...     11-17
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Don't be a snob about career advice

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- I have found that the best way to manage myself is by asking for a lot of help. The question is, how do you know who to take advice from? The answer is not always intuitive. For example, youd think that if Bill Gates wants to give you career advice, you should take it, right? I mean, the guy’s had a pretty decent career. The problem is that if he doesn’t care about your career, he’s going to give ...     11-17
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How to make business travel manageable

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Last year I traveled almost every week. Some weeks I traveled to three different cities. If you are excited about business travel, thinking it’s a free ticket to see the world, you should stop reading now. But if you are having trouble maintaining your personal life in the face of tons of travel, these tips from a cynical traveler will make life easier for you. 1. Stick with your priorities. When ...     11-12
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Shifting the balance of power. (Mainstream media stinks.)

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- I wake up Wednesday at 4am to a phone call: The Guardian, in London, asking for an interview about my miscarriage twitter. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station. And then the phone kept ringing. I tell Now Magazine (I think it’s basically People magazine for the UK audience) to call back after I got the kids off to school. I ask my housemanager to come early because I cant handle the slee...     11-06
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We overestimate the gap between nonprofit and for-profit jobs

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- My ex-husband worked in the nonprofit sector for a while. And you know what? He rarely got health insurance. At one point, we were completely stressed out about not being insured, and he asked his boss what everyone else was doing, and she said, “Can’t you get insurance from your spouse? That’s what we do.” That’s appalling. Being a non-profit is no excuse for treating people poorly. And it’s not ...     11-03
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First, be honest about what you want

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Someone once asked me to think of a moment in my childhood that was really nice. I thought of one. Wait. You think of one, now. Quick. Just any one So I thought of a time:  it was in my grandparents’ huge yard with fruit trees and flower gardens and grass for running. And it was so peaceful. What you remember as really nice tells you something about where you belong. Whatever you thought of, learn...     11-02
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The shrinking difference between nonprofit and for-profit jobs

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- My ex-husband worked in the nonprofit sector for a while. And you know what? He rarely got health insurance. At one point, we were completely stressed out about not being insured, and he asked his boss what everyone else was doing, and she said, “Can’t you get insurance from your spouse? That’s what we do.” That’s appalling. Being a non-profit is no excuse for treating people poorly. And it’s not ...     10-30
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Asperger's at work: Why I'm difficult in meetings

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Eighty percent of adults with Asperger Syndrome do not have full-time work. This not because they can’t do the work. It’s that they can’t manage to be socially acceptable while they get the work done. ‘ Countless studies show people would rather have pleasant and personable co-workers than a co-worker who is always right. I try to keep this in mind each day, and consequently, I spend a lot of time...     10-30
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Why men should give women flowers

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Here’s the deal with giving flowers. Women like receiving flowers. Men think flowers are stupid. Men think: Flowers die, they don’t do anything when they are alive, they are expensive, and they are a cliché. Men know that women in general like flowers, but men also believe that women they know personally do not like flowers. The women they know are the exception to the rule. I think it’s safe to s...     10-29
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How to deal with doubt: Take a leap

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- The farmer broke up with me five times the first five months we were together, last year. So I learned that he had huge commitment issues. I tried to do the advisable thing to do when you’re with someone who has commitment issues. I tried to fall in love with someone else. But I didn’t. I only missed the farmer more. So I told myself that it’s okay to be with someone who has commitment issues, as ...     10-23
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4 Lies about social media

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Everyone knows that the best way to get a job is to leverage your network. And almost everyone knows that social media is a great way to build your network. But many of you are making lots of social media mistakes. I know because so many people tell me that social media is a waste of their time. They’re wasting their time, and continuing to make mistakes, because there’s a set of common lies that ...     10-22
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The Internet has created a generation of great writers

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- The best writers in the history of the world are graduating from college, right now. So everyone can just shut up about how no one can write anymore. Newsflash: No one could write in the Middle Ages, when the good writers wrote in Latin and everyone else spoke colloquial languages like French and English, which priests told them were too lame for real writing. It’s the same situation today in that...     10-19
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4 Types of questions get us in trouble

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- How far you get, in almost anything, is limited mainly by your ability to ask good questions. The problem is that we are not taught to ask good questions. We’re trained to answer questions. But only answering questions doesn’t make an interesting life. After all, if you have all the answers, and you’re spewing them all the time, then you are not learning anything new. Asking questions is how we ge...     10-13
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Obama. Wow. And one thing about work.

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- I was in the process of setting up Dora the Explorer for my four-year-old so that I could make breakfast. But when Yahoo popped up on the screen, I paused. Then I said, Look. Theres President Obama. He won a big award. My son said, For what? Then he pointed to an advertisement for Targeta boxing glove that punches images of the flu. He said, Did Obama win for killing that stuff? I saw a teaching m...     10-10
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Blogs without topics are a waste of time

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Stop thinking that you are such an incredibly wide-ranging thinker with so many interests and insights that you cannot be pinned down to just one topic. The top bloggers are all wide-ranging thinkers. That’s why they are interesting. The more information and angles you can draw from, the more interesting your insights are. I challenge you to think of a popular blogger who lacks focus on their blog...     10-06
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My miscarriage — on CNN, ABC and AOL

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- Embedded video from CNN Video I dont usually post clips of myself when I go on TV. But Im posting this one, where I talk about trying to get an abortion in Wisconsin and end up with a miscarriage at work instead. It was a difficult interview, which is why I like it. And, remarkably, I have good hair without trying, which is another reason I like watching the clip. For those of you who have no idea...     10-02
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Asperger syndrome in the office: How I deal with sensory integration dysfunction

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist -- A lot of people ask me how I manage to keep a job when I have Asperger syndrome. So Im doing a series this week on the topic, because it’s true that most people with Asperger’s are not doing well at work. The work place rewards social skills, and people with Asperger’s have a social skill disorder. I will never have great social skills, but I make them better by ensuring that I’m in my best social...     10-01
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