Marty Nemko
Contributor at Medium
Award-winning career coach, meritocrat. Author of 34 books, including Careers for Dummies and What's the Big Idea: 39 reinventions for a better America.
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6 days ago |
medium.com | Marty Nemko
on life, issues, and media biasMy tweets represent my distilled thinking. Here are my 21 most recent:Here are two potent “games” to play with someone, even a stranger: Each of you gets to talk for three minutes uninterrupted while the other listens carefully. Or you each get to ask each other a question, which must be answered honestly. If a person doesn’t want to answer, the game ends.
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1 week ago |
medium.com | Marty Nemko
In discussing branding, I am not referring to slamming a hot poker on a cow, although I do hate that — What’s wrong with a microchip like they put on my doggie? How would you like a hot poker burned into your body? BrandingBut I digress. The branding I want to talk about is raising the price of a commodity so it can generate more profit without providing any benefit to the buyer. Sugar and salt are the same whether Domino, C&H, or unbranded.
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1 week ago |
medium.com | Marty Nemko
After the book of that title. It’s easy and palatable to offer reasons for optimism. Harder but perhaps more valid are reasons to think we’re doomed:— The lowest achieving have the most babies. — Weapons of mass destruction are ever more miniaturized (e.g., bio, cyber, and nuclear), making it easier for even a lone wolf to wreak havoc.
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2 weeks ago |
medium.com | Marty Nemko
Marty Nemko·Follow4 min read·--Courtesy, LariatThis is a difficult time for parents. Your kid has stopped working hard at school — “But mom, I’m already into college. Second semester doesn’t count.” A valid answer seems too lofty for a teenager to really hear: “You don’t work hard mainly for grades. You do it for learning and for the pride of having a good work ethic.
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2 weeks ago |
medium.com | Marty Nemko
Marty Nemko·Follow2 min read·--I’m one of those people who lives to work, not works to live. I take after my dad, who always felt best when productive. Why? I guess because working feels virtuous, uses my abilities, and sometimes I even get paid for working. But honestly, I’d pay to work. I think that if I had no better option, I’d even pay to shine shoes. Of course, I’d probably be thinking of how I could open a chain of shoeshine stands.
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By choice, I'm usually in a state of whelm. What keeps it from devolving into overwhelm, I think of what's my next one-second task. It could be easy, exigent, or that will lead to my quickly crossing something off my to-do list.
My Poised Pen https://t.co/89eZWRo7hP via @YouTube #hypocrisy,#DEI,#merit,#virtuesignaling,#writing,#utilitarianism
Four More Hard Cases in Finding a Career https://t.co/23zQnnCDAg via @YouTube older job seeker, self employment, job hopper, career advice