See if you can start work at an off-peak time to avoid rush hour, or explore whether telecommuting may be an option.

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Once you start work, you can see at first hand all the different jobs and which one takes your fancy, so my advice would be to keep the degree general.

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Then you realize they like to start work at noon instead of ten and they leave dirty dishes in the sink.

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Suppose you start doing work for client A at 10 a.m.

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Manufacturers are only too happy to indulge these desires, with refrigerators that let you surf the Internet for recipes, ovens that will keep a meal cool while you're at work and start roasting it in time for your arrival home, and sinks that turn into dishwashers --look Ma, no loading!

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If you work in-house at a small company, then start by interviewing a founder or CEO.

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Don't start reading this at bedtime if you need sleep before going to work.

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Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

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Now, before you start dismissing this as soft-as-tofu logic that just randomly happened to work at Coca-Cola, other experts at this small conference held at the Venetian chimed in in agreement.

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If you work at a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization you might want to start reaching out to Apple employees.

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