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Today my friend showed me an article about a Toyota engineer who died from overwork. Apparently the 45 year old Japanese man was working 80 hours of overtime a week for two months
There's a certain class of ways to get free money or free stuff simply by paying attention, keeping track, and being careful. I don't do these things. It's not because they don't
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Many people are job hunting these days. I have worked with job seekers for many years and have found that these five common assumptions frequently derail a job search.
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I turn down free money
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5 Fatal Assumptions of Job Seekers
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