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	<title>Smooth Harold, The Blog of Blake Snow &#187; work</title>
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	<description>Husband, father, writer, and proprietor.</description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s one way to get your work-a-holic boss to comply</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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Make sure s/he pays you overtime for every email and after-hours request they send. Like they do in Brazil.
How you like them &#8220;Order and Progress&#8221;?
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		<title>The secret to life is working to death, experts say</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROVO, Ut. — Want to get ahead in this world? Work lots of extra hours — even nights and weekends — experts say, and it will all be worth your while.
&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to forget what&#8217;s most important in life,&#8221; says Bill Loney, a certified life coach who hasn&#8217;t quite made it in life yet. &#8220;Family, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever played hooky just to read a book?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have. On many occasions, in fact.
It all started in college. I&#8217;d head to class early to get a jump on my studies, get bored within 30 minutes, then open to whatever novel, biography, or paperback I had bookmarked for personal enjoyment. In the course of my four year, 63-credit undergraduate education, I&#8217;d do this several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s what I call a stand-out resume</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/now-thats-what-i-call-a-stand-out-resume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
More here
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		<title>Should longterm unemployment affect qualifications?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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This is wrong.
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		<title>Dangling the video game carrot to achieve real productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/dangling-the-video-game-carrot-to-achieve-real-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/dangling-the-video-game-carrot-to-achieve-real-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is so win, particularly for the Mark Twain reference at the end:
“One of the most profound transformations we can learn from games,” he says, “is how to turn the sense that someone has ‘failed’ into the sense that they ‘haven’t succeeded yet.’”
Some schools are starting to borrow gamers’ system of quests and rewards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It pays to have friends—literally</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/it-pays-to-have-friends%e2%80%94literally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/it-pays-to-have-friends%e2%80%94literally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[village people]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC recently cited a study that found the more friends you have, the more you earn. After observing 10,000 U.S. students over a period of 35 years, the study showed that the wealthiest people were those that had the most friends at school. Each extra school friend added 2% to the salary.
The take away: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working harder for your dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/working-harder-for-your-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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MSNBC published a story yesterday that confirms what many of us already know: The almighty dollar is a lot more elusive these days, as Americans are working harder for less money. That&#8217;s been my experience, as I have to scrap a lot more now to make deals happen. Thankfully, there are still deals. For that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I became an entrepreneur (aka self-employed)</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/mailbag-how-did-you-become-an-entrepreneur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/mailbag-how-did-you-become-an-entrepreneur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smooth Harold reader Derek Bobo asks via email:
I was wondering when and how you made the leap of faith to work for yourself. When did you know you were safe financially? What was the deciding factor, etc? I&#8217;m right on the brink but can&#8217;t seem to get myself to take the leap of faith.
Excellent question. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching the internet for four and a half days was liberating</title>
		<link>http://www.smoothharold.com/ditching-the-internet-for-four-and-a-half-days-was-liberating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smoothharold.com/ditching-the-internet-for-four-and-a-half-days-was-liberating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blake is abandoning the internet until Monday,&#8221; I wrote Wednesday afternoon on my Facebook status. It wasn&#8217;t a pithy attempt to grab attention. I meant it. And I&#8217;m happy to report that I stayed the course.
In doing so, I was able to unconditionally enjoy my family&#8217;s company during Thanksgiving. It also reinvigorated my professional spirits, [...]]]></description>
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