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Highlights
Whose Career – Yours, Mine or Ours?
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Whose career – yours, mine or ours? is a fundamental question that every dual career couple needs to answer.
Working as a Team Even When One is Away
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No decision to move away from family, friends, career is ever taken lightly. However, the reality of our choices often feels like it’s more than we bargained for...
Making a New Place Home
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About 36,000 feet somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, my tears began to flow. I wasn’t surprised....
Does being a third culture kid better equip you…
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An interesting question has come out of Covid times: Are third culture kids (TCKs)—children who accompany parents into another culture due to a parent’s job—better able to cope with the interrupted life situations we have all faced during Covid?
Fact Meets Fiction: WBGFN Member Transforms Life…
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Members of the WBGFN often find themselves at a career crossroads when they accompany their partner to a new posting far from home. For Gina Wilkinson this experience was key to forging a new path as a novelist.
The Beginning of a New Journey
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I am Sadaf Khalid. I am currently enjoying my life as a home maker, along with globe-trotting, meeting new people and sharing different experiences...
Same, Same But Different…The Challenges of…
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Accompanying your partner/spouse overseas presents unexpected challenges and partners/spouses in this position often experience the loss of one’s sense of worth, and professional identity.....
Say Your Name, Your Real Name: my Back-to-School…
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You sigh as you watch your teacher struggle over a name. She didn’t even have to utter a sound. It has to be you.
An Odyssey of 30,000 books
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In a little-known corner of the World Bank’s J Building Basement 3, a volunteer team enthusiastically carries out its mission...