There are simple tricks to FORCE your boss to give you a raise... but you have to be willing to make a big sacrifice, KEVIN O'LEARY reveals

Dear Kevin,
I'm in my mid-thirties; I've been working at the same events firm of a hundred employees for the last three and a half years and I'm fed up.

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