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No Salvation from Productivity Improvements: The Failed 35 Hour Work Week...

Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect improvements in productivity to result in shorter work hours? The quick answer: No. It’s up to us. The famous French 35 hour work week has recently received yet...

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Working Weekends – Free Professions Have Become an Ironic Oxymoron

Thoughts from my first (yeah, I’m lucky) weekend working experience I’ve just finished my first experience of working in the weekend. What once was a personal taboo of mine is no more. I’ve worked...

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Email Becoming a Distraction? Here’s How to Keep Control of your Inbox and...

Are you wasting 8 and 1/2 hours a week figuring out what you were doing moments before? Email have very quickly become one of more useful tools of our everyday lives. In the office, the omnipresent...

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Success: Who Dares Wins?

Following the crowds won’t get you there After a couple of hours spent on a certain report or analysis I usually take 5 minutes to browse through my favorite news and finance sites to update on recent...

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Is Rationalization the Key to Happiness?

Rationalization is a powerful defense mechanism which comes at the cost of self deception. Does honesty with oneself comes with a price in happiens? I’m incapable of rationalization. Perhaps it would...

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Challenging Happiness – Exploring the Irony of Human Nature

The irony of human nature – anxiety for those that have everything and depression for those that have nothing The human state of mind has been cleverly characterized by someone to be either anxiety or...

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Carnival of Financial Planning – May 16, 2009 Edition

Welcome to the May 16, 2009 edition of the Carnival of Financial Planning. Today I’m having the pleasure of hosting the Carnival of Financial Planning on The Personal Financier. The Carnival of...

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Why Enough is Never Enough

A short tale on leg space, social status and the irony of human nature Pressing up against the window trying to create some space between himself and the man sitting next to him, Joe Aspiring kept...

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Personal Finance Advice when Initiating Career Changes

You probably know that personal financial planning is important at all stages of employment, including when you will be changing careers. Nowadays, you should examine the big picture in personal...

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How To Ruin Your Resume

What are some things people are doing to have their resumes trashed? Here are some of the more common mistakes recruiters find in many resumes: 1. Applying jobs for which they are not qualified Many...

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