Tales from the Wallet: Controlling Your Spending
What are your best tips for controlling your spending, readers?
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When Do Girly Clothes Become Unprofessional?
If you wear girly clothes, will you be seen as less of a professional? Reader A wonders… I recently parted ways with a company where I was being micromanaged, like my boss didn’t trust me to do anything without his help and supervision. He never said why, but he kept treating me like some incompetent…
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That’s Ms. Griffin To You: When To Use Last Names
When do you call work associates by their last name (such as Ms. Griffin), or by another title (such as Attorney Griffin)? Do you have a preference how work associates refer to you — and how do you communicate that? Does calling someone else “Ms. Griffin” make you look young? I’ve gotten a number of…
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How to Lower Your Voice
Have you ever thought you should deepen your voice (and make it louder) to be taken more seriously? Reader G has a great suggestion for a topic … I’m in my mid-thirties and had to work hard early in my career to be taken seriously. A big component of that is consciously “aging” my voice,…
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Open Thread: The Best Products for Summer
It’s May 1, and here in NYC the sun is shining, things are in bloom, and it seems as if Bare Leg/Flip Flop Commuting Weather has finally arrived. (Of course, we all know that you’re not supposed to walk for miles in flip flops, but everyone here does anyway.) I was thinking it might be…
