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101 Tips for Becoming Your Own Career Coach

by Marquis | Jul 8, 2010 | career, career path, career-life balance, interesting articles, other blogs, other sites, professional advice

In the past few months, I’ve posted several articles about the iffy job market and, at times like these, we all owe it to ourselves to be as thoughtful as possible about managing our careers. I’ve built my career the hard way by making a lot of mistakes...

Message from a reader describing her comeback from "rejection" and pursuit of work-life balance

by Marquis | Jun 15, 2009 | career, career-life balance, reader feedback, real life stuff, shout outs to me

What’s going on, y’all. I’m writing this entry with a big smile on my face because today was the second warm day in a row here in Chicago. That may be a weird thing to be happy about, but y’all weren’t here on those days when the...

Balancing family life and the choice of a career path

by Marquis | Jun 14, 2009 | career-life balance, real life stuff

Hey there, everyone. I hope you’re all having a great Sunday and are getting some decent rest in before starting another week of work. As for myself, I’m on my way out to check out the Chicago Ribfest to likely eat waaaaay too much and do some major damage...

A couple of interesting articles sent to me by a reader

by Marquis | Jun 12, 2009 | career-life balance, interesting articles, real life stuff

Hello all. Happy Friday! If any of you have been grindin’ hard like I have lately, I bet you’re really looking forward to the weekend. I’ve been doing so much traveling lately that I haven’t had a chance to rest, so this weekend will probably...

So what’s the big picture now???

by Marquis | May 17, 2009 | About Marquis, career, career-life balance

What’s good, folk. Gotta love lazy Sundays, right? I’m especially relaxed this weekend after having witnessed the college graduation of my youngest sister, MYP. It had been a long road to graduation for her and my entire family came together to help her...

Reader weighing corporate vs entrepreneurial options

by Marquis | May 5, 2009 | career-life balance, professional advice, Reader comments, Stanford GSB

What’s good, peoples. Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!! I hope you all have a good time celebrating it tonight…I know that I will :-)Before diving into this entry, I’d like to thank everyone who responded to my last entry about why I don’t link to my...
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