Is US Unemployment Still Awful? Despite some attempts to gloss over the current US unemployment rates as an improvement – at 9% instead of 10% – most experts do not feel we have anything to celebrate about yet. In fact, the way that the government accounts for employed and unemployed people makes the situation...
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Meet Steve Martinez How Steve Martinez Turned A Love Of Art Into A Second Career As A Painter A new friend recently asked me to tell them about my journey that has brought me to painting. After several days of procrastination, and realizing that most of you won’t read past this sentence, I’ve sat...
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The Do’s and Don’t Do Too Much’s of Over 50 Jobs Hunts Hunting for a new job after age 50 is still a challenging and frustrating task for hundreds of thousands of Americans. In our society, a 55 year old is hardly old. And yet, older workers are having the hardest time bouncing back...
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Some Old Jobs Are Back! When I was a young professional in the computer field, my coworkers and I all talked about how it was almost impossible to go into our father’s profession as some of our own fathers had done. So many professions, it seemed, were drying up. New professions, like working with...
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How’s Your Business Buzz Word IQ? If you are still walking around the office telling your coworkers that their efforts to meet deadlines and quotas are just swell, you may need to update your office slang. Of course, some of these terms are not that new. But some of us have missed the business...
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Would You Just Love To Get Paid To Write? Many people dream of writing. They don’t, of course, just want to write. They want to get published. Of course, also getting paid to write would be a great bonus. This may seem like a dream or something that only a very few published authors can...
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