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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 2

January 9, 2010

Continued from Part 1 of When Resigning is harder than getting the boot. Baskas says it took her a year to leave. “It was hard,” she remembers. Looking back, she says she can see that she was afraid to walk away. What nagged her was: “If I don’t have that structure, the title and the [...]

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I’m outta here! When resigning is harder than getting the boot – Part 1

January 8, 2010

Choosing to leave your job can be tough when it’s who you are and not simply what you do. I met Seattle–based journalist Harriet Baskas in New Zealand. The pair of us, along with four other journos, were invited guests on a media trip covering an Air New Zealand promo (see Sex, Social Media and [...]

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