Advice at the intersection of work and life

Seminar: How to make your 20s count

This seminar will show you how to make the most of your 20s so that you can set yourself up for an engaged, fulfilling life. We’ll have four days of live video sessions with chat from June 10-13 at 9pm-10pm est …

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Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk founded three startups. Her career advice runs in more than 200 newspapers. She lives in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons ...

  • Coaching

    What Startup Life is Really Like

    Brazen Careerist is my third startup. People ask me all the time why I gave up my position as CEO. If you knew what startup life was really like, you would ask me why I was CEO for as long …

  • Career advice

    Voices of the defenders of grad school. And me crushing them.

    It’s pretty well established that non-science degrees are not necessary for a job. In fact, the degrees cost you too much money, require too long of a commitment, and do not teach you the real-life skills they promise. Yet, I …

  • HOMESCHOOLING

    In our house school is punishment

    My son outgrew his violin.  It's always a bittersweet time when we move up a size in violins.  I saved his first violin.  The whole thing is the size of an adult hand.  At the