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"How to Find Work with a Flexible Schedule"

Posted by Penelope Trunk: "Most of us think of a dream career as one that affords us flexibility for personal relationships and high engagement for personal growth. And while flexible work used to be limited to women, USA Today reports that increasingly, men, too, feel stress from the personal impact of inflexible work. So the question for everyone is: What's the best path to get this dream career?

Retail is a great way to get flexible work, (which is why I think we should see a surge in educated people taking retail jobs.) But most people don't aspire to retail because the work is not intellectually engaging. On the other hand, most of the intellectually challenging work in this world comes with inflexible schedules.

So the trick is not to get flexibility, the trick is to get it without losing engaging work and avoiding a pay cut. Also, keep in mind that flexible work is not about the hours, it's about control. Because most of us are fine with working long hours as long as we have control over those hours.

Given these parameters for thinking about flexible work, here are the tricks for landing that sort of job:

Be a star...

Be relentless...

Know your bottom line...

Gear up for big risks...

Be careful what you wish for...

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist, 4 August 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).