Penelope Trunk The Brazen Careerist

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Penelope Trunk writes counterintuitive but effective career advice for a new generation of workers, where she explains why old advice -- like pay your dues, climb the ladder, and don't have gaps in your resume -- is outdated and irrelevant in today's workplace.

After spending 10 years as a marketing executive in the software industry, Trunk subsequently founded three companies of her own. She's endured an IPO, a merger, and a bankruptcy. Prior to that, she was a professional beach volleyball player.

Trunk began writing business advice when Fortune magazine ran an open call for a woman to write about her life as an executive. She auditioned with a piece about her brother's stupid Internet ideas and another piece about her boss's sex appeal, and won the job. Today, in addition to writing for Yahoo! Finance, she's a columnist at the Boston Globe and her syndicated column runs in more than 200 publications worldwide. Her forthcoming book, "Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success," will be published by Warner Books in May 2007.

Trunk has spent roughly 10 years each in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York City. Most recently, after heeding her own advice about how to leverage scientific data to choose a job and place to live, she landed in Madison, Wis. The first word her baby learned in Wisconsin was "cow."

Penelope Trunk is dedicated to helping people find success at the intersection of work and life, because that's what she wants for herself. Visit her blog at blog.penelopetrunk.com.