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Are You Asking Life for What You Want?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

For example: She used her bonus to put in a new laundry room, even while worrying about sending her high school senior to college. CEOs like Marissa Mayer (Yahoo); Virginia Rommetty (IBM); Irene Rosenfeld (Kraft) and Ursula Burns (Xerox) no doubt are others who have learned how to ask life for what they want! Sometimes I wonder.

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Do the Rich Use Debt Differently?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When I was a mainframe computer programmer and project manager, we used a relational database product from IBM called DB2. One of my nieces did this when borrowing for college. Programmers would code a call to DB2 and the software it had would figure out the best way to go get the data and present it back to the program.

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Cutting the Gender Wage Gap

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

At my last employer, unbeknownst to me at the time, many of the executive level officers all attended the same private college. Mary Barra (GM); Meg Whitman (HP); Virgina Rometty (IBM); Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed) and Ursula Burns (Xeorx) didn’t sideline themselves. Know what others doing your job are being paid. Career Tips'