Eve Tahmincioglu

Eve Tahmincioglu writes the weekly "Your Career" column for msnbc.com, aiming to tell daily grinders how to make work life work for them by sleuthing out career-ladder secrets rung by rung.

Tahmincioglu has written about workplace issues for nearly 20 years for a host of daily newspapers from New York to Florida, covering everything from auto plant strikes to office dress codes to the explosion of overtime.

Her book, “From the Sandbox to the Corner Office,” offers insights from more than 50 CEOs on how life’s screwups and stern parents are really lessons in disguise.

She’s a regular contributor to the New York Times and BusinessWeek’s SmallBiz magazine, and her blog, CareerDiva.net, offers another place to hash over matters of life and its toils. Despite her dwindling free time, she is forever hopeful work/life balance is more than a cliché.

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