Getting clear on your short-term goal can help you evaluate whether to volunteer for a committee or take on an extra work assignment.

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Travel expenses: If you had to travel away from home on a temporary assignment for work, you might be able to deduct related travel expenses.

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It was my first major assignment since returning to work after a serious stroke earlier that year.

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Gabi will begin work immediately, reporting for her first assignment at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 12.

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Although there is no magic answer, let me suggest one basic guideline: Whether you are commissioning or receiving the work, spend extra time shaping an assignment at the beginning.

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Her success in life thus is the product of continuous hard work in a career where she never turned down an assignment.

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His service in the United States Army from 19431977 included an assignment with the Office of Strategic Services that involved parachuting into occupied France to work with the Resistance to support the Allied invasion.

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