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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

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I loved learning and practicing persuasion, negotiation techniques and networking. I decided to use the opportunity and bought a one-way ticket to Panama – I wanted to learn Spanish. I had received my first salary, moved into a colonial house in Panama City Casco Viejo district next to the Pacific Ocean. I was (still am!)

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

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I am affiliated with local and not-so-local design firms on a contract basis, and also participate in direct-to-client projects. I also like the work I did (on cS) for a social networking site, where the brand name of the site was a pun on the name of an historical figure. And I am now officially a web designer as well.