Listen To The Copper Robot Interview With Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk

The Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk, talks with the Coper Robot about career advice for Baby Boomers and Generation X, why people who comment on blogs are jerks, what to do when you're unemployed, the benefits of blogging, and why it's a bad idea to use the phrase "oral sex" in a blog headline.

Penelope is the founder of three startups, most recently Brazen Careerist, a Web service to help companies locate hard-to-find find job candidates.

Prior to Brazen Careerist, Penelope worked at marketing for a Fortune 500 company, played professional beach volleyball, worked on a French chicken farm and spent time in a mental ward to control her bulimia. She's written candidly about all those experiences, as well surviving 9/11 -- she writes that she was "standing at the bottom of the World Trade Center when it fell" -- and the end of her marriage, and her post-marriage dating and sex life.

Read some of her career advice:

The connection between a good job and happiness is overrated.

Social skills matter more than ever, so here's how to get them.

Bad career advice: Do what you love.

Want more Penelope? Buy the book.

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