Penelope Trunk: The Brazen Careerist
Penelope Trunk’s blog is what I strive my blog to be. I discovered her blog a few months after I created mine, and I was amazed at the quality of posts. She writes what I want to write about, and she is able to do it in a clear, no-nonsense way. She is able to express her thoughts much better than I can. Of course, she is a professional writer, and I write as a hobby. Also I was never a good writer, so I started my blogs to improve my writing. But that’s just my excuse.
If you don’t know about Penelope Trunk, she is a young, professional writer that also writes about career development. Like me, she writes about the new trends in career development. Her posts may be controversial and brazen, but I believe it’s the reality of the job situation today. Her blog is for millennial job seekers, but it’s relevant for people of other generations.
She even wrote a book
- Bad Career Advice: Do What You Love
- Twentysomething: Why I regret getting straight A’s in college (written by Jon Morrow)
- Stop thinking you’ll get by on your high I.Q.
- Stop worrying that your twentysomething is lost
- Twentysomething: The rising rift between gen X and gen Y (written by Rebecca Thorman)
- Yahoo column: Are MBAs becoming obsolete?
- Strategies for survival on an entry-level salary
And of course she has millions of other articles at her site. So check them out. I highly recommend them.
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I too like Penelope’s articles. Although she does get a lot of flack from people, especially in her Yahoo columns.