Master's degree Required/Some Heavy Lifting

Instructor, Caroline BenderThere is a lot I don't remember anymore. Not like a blackout, or even "it's all a blur." I still remember the facts of things every day, snapshot incidents that characterize how it all dissolved.I remember that I used to get the dry heaves in the morning, just before brushing my teeth, and that I cried at my desk at least once a day. I remember that once I did hide in the footwell and found the enclosed dark space very comforting. But the real feeling of that pain -- say, the feeling that drives you to leave the building in the middle of the workday to go to a poolhall to shoot people with video guns -- I don't have...

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Want to manage? Consider these five things

By Ms. Trienta Y. HeureuxDirector of Department Zed, Geldstrafe CollegeI am a manager.I manage people, programs, money, staff developments and staff meetings. I hire, I fire, I hold people accountable, and I tell them when they’ve done well. I make decisions, sometimes going against what others think. I am able, and sometimes required, to make people do things that they don’t want to do, don’t think make sense and actually, in some cases, hate.I manage up.I deal with politics, with relationships, and with protecting my office and my staff. I manage those above me in areas different from my own who still believe that because they are higher on...

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When work is your life

Fireside chat with Ms. Minchin, Miss Minchin's younger, hipper sister. Let's start with a quiz. For each question you answer "yes" to, give yourself 5 points. For each "No" give yourself 0 points. Workers in philanthropic or life-saving jobs are exempt.1. I think about work anytime I am not at work. yes/no2. I talk about annoying things that happened at work every night when I come home. yes/no3. I drag myself to work in the morning because I hate it there. yes/no4. At lunch with my co-workers, we only talk about things we hate about our company. yes/no5. On the weekends, I mostly spend my time recovering and preparing for the week of work ahead,...

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