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Post Layoff ā€“ To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that Iā€™d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. So look at companies with advancement opportunities and positions that pay accordingly. Do your homework.

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No Pain, No Gain. Life Lesson on Endurance

QAspire

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. ā€œ You get almost nothing without going through some kind of pain, unless you win a lottery.ā€, replied the man who was himself a fitness freak. He neither had space nor money to start out.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks.