Several years ago I was advised that it would be better if, in professional situations, I downplayed the fact that I practice yoga.
For many years, I worked in professional kitchens where the Robot-Coupe, a big red and white plastic monster of a food processor, was always ready at hand.
For example, since I will be thrown out into the professional world in just a few short months, I feel that I should be applying to every job I see posted or else I will be one of the millions of college students who graduated but cannot find a job.
So I take the phone call in my best professional voice - Monica Crowley here.
"I keep myself right at the (professional) level, in case somebody feels froggy and says, 'I think I'm going to whup the old man, '" he says.
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"My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time, " the California Democrat said.
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Roughly 6 weeks ago in a Forbes Sports Money piece, I argued that the Chicago Cubs were one of the biggest anomalies in professional sports for their inability to find consistent success despite favorable local market conditions (i.e. a large market size coupled with an enthusiastic fan base).
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I've always been a very hard-working person, but I have been amazed at the degree to which on Saturdays and Sundays I find myself involved in professional activities.
Indeed, my professional life, and I venture to say the professional lives of almost all of those individuals in the top 0.1% of earners, has been blessed and made immeasurably more successful because of the secretarial and administrative support we were fortunate to have.
In the 17 years I've been a professional journalist, I've seen unqualified white men, white women and, yes, minorities hired and promoted, and affirmative action had nothing to do with it.
And I'm also a music scholar in my professional life, and so I've been running Soul Sides the audio blog now for - since about 2003.
As I examined their stories, as well as the stories of others in the public eye who have achieved high levels of professional success, I became even more convinced that an easy, charmed life is far from a recipe for greatness.
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"I think there was not a single professional player in the team in 1996, " he said.
"I think 80 percent of the countries in Europe have a professional army, " said Oliver Bendt, 42.
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Being a professional in the retailing industry, I also consider online shopping part of my career.
"I can't think of any previous such incident in the professional game off the top of my head, " an FA spokesman told CNN.
Now, I should say right up front as the professional forecasters in each of our offices who contribute to the forecast frequently say, we are economists and not soothsayers and all forecasts have to be understood to be subject to substantial margins of error.
The professional singers I spoke to describe their coaches in nearly identical terms.
It was an abysmal investigation and it's the first time in my professional career that I have used such an expression to describe a police investigation.
As a clinician and a professional in the field of public health, I have seen those challenges first hand.
I'll bet that Jason Collins will be the first in a string of professional athletes to openly acknowledge their homosexuality.
As a professional school teacher, I am saddened that the public in most African countries does not ask hard questions.
It was in that same professional capacity that I felt it my duty to warn the press of the novel's potential to provoke anger among some Muslims.
But in most countries the governing body works with the professional game and I'm convinced that we have to work together.
When I had failures or trials in my professional career this book helped me to have the courage to pick up and move forward.
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"I've been in professional football for 20 years and Cardiff and Swansea are the best two teams we've seen in a long time, " he told BBC Wales.
After I retired from the Park Service as an Assistant Regional Director for External Affairs in the Intermountain Region, I went back to school to learn to be a professional chef.
After at least a dozen turn-downs seeking thirty million dollars in bank financing for a professional football team that I represented, I faced the fact that my initial approach was not working.
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"Although we're not full time pros, we are trying to be as professional as we can in every way and I'm sure the PFA will be able to help us in that respect, " said White.
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