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MY FATHER'S ADVICE... 1. Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations and go with the flow. 2.Reduce bitterness from your life, that shit delays blessings! 3. Dating a supportive woman is everything. 4. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule - Never lie to yourself. 5. If your parents always count on you, don't play the same game with those who count on their parents. 6. Chase goals, not people. 7. Your 20's are your selfish years, build yourself, choose yourself first at all cost. 8. Detachment is power. Release anything that doesn't bring you peace. 9. Only speak when your words are more beautiful than your silence. 10. Invest in your looks. Do it for no one else but yourself. When you look good, you feel good. Normalize dressing well, you're broke not mad. 11. Some people want to see everything go wrong for you because nothing is going right for them. 12. Being a good person doesn't get you lov...
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Shortly after the turn of the century, I left Wall Street to work from home.
My husband had finished his Ph.D., and his best job opportunity was in Boston, not New York City. Well established in my career as an investment analyst, with an Institutional Investor ranking, I wanted to continue to work for Merrill Lynch and was able to persuade my boss to let me work from our new home in Boston.
This doesn’t sound especially exotic today, but it definitely was then. Relatively few people were working remotely; fewer still were working for large, fast-paced, team-collaborative companies that way. The technology was available, of course, but compared with the tools of today, it was primitive. A tech specialist from Merrill Lynch had to come to my home and spend a full day getting me set up.
These days, the organizational challenges are more difficult than the technical ones. And now that I run my own company, with employees in more than five states and the possibility of expanding internationally, I’m thinking about these issues not just as an individual contributor but also as a manager.
For my firm, home base is Lexington, Virginia, but only 15% of us are colocated, so most of our work is done remotely. We’re certainly not alone. A 2018 study found that 70% of professionals globally are telecommuting at least once a week; 53% work remotely half the week or more.1 Swiss office service provider IWG, sponsor of the study, clarified that the numbers refer to full-time employees — not freelancers and the self-employed. Add these other types of workers, hired on a temporary, part-time, or contract basis as critical contributors to many business teams, and the number of remote employees balloons.

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