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What can assistants expect in 2014?

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Anyway here we are in 2014 and I hope that everyone is settling back into work after the Christmas and New Year break. I think assistants will have an interesting 2014, particularly as it is the International Year of the Secretary and Administrative Assistant with lots planned for our professional development. PA Networking.

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The 10 Best Books on Personal Finance

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Retire Before Mom and Dad: The Simple Numbers Behind A Lifetime of Financial Freedom. In Retire Before Mom and Dad , Berger breaks down his easy-to-understand tips to help readers begin their journey toward understanding the world of finances. The same insights that popularized the site were then collected and condensed into a book.

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The U.S. Needs More Tradespeople and Women Are Answering the Call

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For every five plumbers or electricians that retire, only one young person comes into the trades behind them,” says Erin Izen, head of philanthropy and community investments at The Home Depot Foundation. Between 2014 and 2022, the number of female apprentices more than doubled, and in 2022, 13.8% population at the time.

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Redefining Wealth Means Empowering Your Employees to Leave Your Company to Start Their Own Businesses

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Success is not buying a sports car, taking your company public for $500 million or retiring early, but rather helping others to pave their own paths so they can impact the world in their own positive ways. This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated. I finally got it. Photo by @lermont51/Twenty20.

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Uncorking the Dream: Founding Ampersand Estates in Australia’s Wine Country

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They left Velrada together to launch a consulting firm, The Terrace Initiative, in Perth in 2014. Although it could have been possible, entering into retirement after she and Scheepers sold their firm back in 2019 was never an option for Bell. “I I quickly learned that retiring at 38 was not for me,” she laughs.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

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When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I You may want to think about building your business in stages if you can,” Marshall says.

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