Category: Life Choices
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What Time Are You Leaving?
How to Avoid Killing Your Colleagues It’s Thursday afternoon at 3:50 PM. You’ve managed to end a phone call with a very talkative client who just happens to spend $3 trillion dollars with your firm every year. If you can make it out the door in the next 15 minutes, you’ll blow through the parkway…
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Toolbox Talk – The Dangers of Heat
Precautions for Heat Hazards So, you did it. You slept with someone at work. Are you feeling liberated? Great. Hang onto that feeling, because it’s going to last for about another 14 seconds. As women in a male-dominated field, we spend a lot of time talking about men who treat us badly or who make…
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Patterns for Success
Respond, don’t React by Mia Painter, Guest Contributor I was raised in a small family of women – mom, gram, two aunts, and a few cousins. My family had started out with some men, but the year I was two my grandfather and uncle died and my mom left my abusive father. I remember the…
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Our Sacrifices, Their Future
Driving Toward the Future by Ann Schmelzer, Guest Contributor Did you see the Super Bowl Audi commercial with the young girl driving the boxcar? Here is the link in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6u10YPk_34 The commercial drew some criticism in its pre-Super Bowl preview; Audi North America only has two women in senior leadership positions…
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United We Rock
Weaving Bonds That Don’t Break Family vacations in my childhood were spent in many different locations. The agendas were varied, the adventures were comical, (including the Exploding Station Wagon Incident of ’78), and the sibling bickering was typical. But the one constant among all the excursions was the inclusion of a visit to a historic…