Marty Nemko

Fresh ideas about career, education, the life well-led, and improving the world.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

We Are All So Damn Fallible

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If something's excellent, there's nothing to fix. So I tend to look for problems. In recent years, I've trained my sights on th...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Job and Business Opportunities in Rebuilding Haiti

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The Chinese symbol for crisis is the same as for opportunity. If I were looking for a job or to start a business related to rebuilding Haiti...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

"Scanning" (Dabbling) is a Career Killer

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Self-help guru Barbara Sher encourages people to be proud of being a dabbler, what she calls a scanner: a person with the uncontrollable ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

I'll be Keynoting and Emceeing a Free Job Hunters Bootcamp

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On Jan. 28, I'll be emceeing and keynoting a Job Seeker's Boot Camp at the San Mateo County Event Center. It will be filled with pra...
Friday, January 15, 2010

"Show Time:" A Fast Way to Gain Confidence

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By nature, I'm an introverted, mildly sad person. Of course, if I were to behave that way at work, I'd be less helpful to my career ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

"Shark Soup:" A play about getting fired, hired, and giving the finger to Corporate America

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I'm delighted to say that my play The Sexiest Man Alive , about a couple with mismatched sex drives, is now in production. It will be d...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

One Way to Close the Racial Achievement Gap

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ABC News and the East Bay Express (a San Francisco Bay Area weekly) reported today that the Berkeley Unified School District is consideri...
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Marty Nemko
Oakland, CA, United States
I love being a career and personal coach and writing my Psychology Today blog: How to Do Life. My latest books, are "The Best of Marty Nemko" (3rd ed), Modern Fables, Poems Practical, and Careers for Dummies.. Some of my best recent work is linked to on this blog, but my older writings and the archive of my KALW (NPR-San Francisco) radio show are free on www.martynemko.com. If you would rather email me than post your comments on this blog, my email address is mnemko@comcast.net.
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