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

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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. The real estate and tourism in Panama were booming. They make all the difference in the world.

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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. If you are part of a design firm, and your affiliation is less than five years, be totally prepared to be thrown out on your butt the minute you turn 45, or maybe even 40. But not so, graphic design.