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When Your Job is Like an Episode of The Office
Oftentimes there are moments at work when I think that I’m living an episode of The Office. Although I’ve never run an employee over with a car, embarked on an interoffice romance, or staged a suicide...
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Breaking Down the Professional Learning Curve
When you start a new job, you’ll always have a learning curve. For the most part, regardless of where you work and what you do, these curves take on the same trajectory: This is HR. Orientation: On...
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Work Diary, Sept. 22, 2009: Old School Pants Day
Female, 24, Midtown Manhattan, working in corporate finance. Career schizophrenic, occasional train wreck, and solicitor of any advice that convinces her to leave finance. 8:15 AM – I wake up late to...
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No Pity For Old Men
In 2006, I did an internship at a now-dead investment bank in New York. During my first week in orientation, I remember sitting in a large auditorium with the rest of my summer analyst class. We had...
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Take a Risk, Take a Chance, Make a Change*
* Yes, the title is from a Kelly Clarkson song. I’m not ashamed. During the summer before my senior year of college, I did an internship at a large investment bank in New York. To get the job, I...
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