Career & Money
105 Articles & Excerpts
Priorities : Family, Self, Work, Spouse by Paul Mauchline I have a question I would like you to ask yourself today. Answer the question honestly, without giving it much thought right now. Just give your immediate response, keeping in mind that there might be components to the question you currently do not have i
Everyone Can Have Charisma If Only…
Charisma: Seven Keys to Developing the Magnetism that Leads to Success by Tony Alessandra, Ph.D. You walk into a room and soon notice an animated conversation among a knot of several people. You're attracted to their energy and start to join them. Then you see that one fellow has already turned and is now talking to someone else.
There Is An Upside
Getting Fired: What to Do If You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign by Steven Mitchell While these developments are depressing, you should not despair. Some of my clients, out of frustration and anger, cry when they relate the facts of their firing to me in my office. This is understandable. Since most of us equate self-worth with our work
Big brother is watching - An examination into Corporate Spying by John D. Moore, MS, CADC Imagine sitting at your workstation one morning and composing an email to a friend, detailing the events of the night before. In your electronic correspondence, you reveal that you took a co-worker out on a date and engaged in sexual intercourse
Self-Esteem at Work by Crystal Woods Do you feel satisfied at the end of the week that you've accomplished something or made a difference at work, or is it a good week for you when you get as far as Wednesday before you wish it was the weekend? It amazes me (although I understand totally
The Psychology of Right Livelihood
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow by Marsha Sinetar, Ph.D. Work I disliked the most was work I wasn't suited for. Once, for example, I sold vacuum cleaners door to door. Now there's nothing wrong with that job, except I was painfully shy and basically introverted, and knocking on doors in strange neighborhoods
Who's Doing Your Thinking for You?
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted? Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never
Success: How Sweet It Is… Till Resentment Comes Along by Paul Mauchline Why is it that so many successful people I encounter are unhappy with their success and accomplishments in their lives? The answer is quite simple: because they allow the feelings of resentment from others to affect how they feel about themselves.
The Fifty-Year-Old Wake-Up Call
How to Find a Job After 50: From Part-Time to Full-Time, from Career Moves to New Careers by Betsy Cummings Your years are a priceless advantage! For all the job market uncertainty today, opportunities have never been better for Americans over fifty. So whether you've been shown the door or have decided to change your career, there is an endless array of option
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White Trash Etiquette by Dr. Verne Edstrom, Esq. Now unless you wanna spend your golden years like your grandma - living in a Pontiac in the scrap yard - decent trash knows they gotta earn so you always got money for cigs and meat. But a lot of people has a hard time figuring out what's the best career
An Overview of Current Law and Trends
Getting Fired: What to Do If You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign by Steven Mitchell Radio and television interviewers frequently ask me why I say that a job is like a romance. My answer is that companies woo applicants with promises of security, fulfillment, and riches. Then, when the honeymoon is over, even highly qualified people often
He sits at home on the computer all day playing games and is not looking for work by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D I have been married for 13 years. For 10 of those years my husband worked at the same job with me. Three years ago he decided he was burnt out and quit his job. He has had many jobs since but none have been steady. For the past 6 months he has been out of
Taking Control of the Rest of Your Life
Getting Fired: What to Do If You're Fired, Downsized, Laid Off, Restructured, Discharged, Terminated, or Forced to Resign by Steven Mitchell You will also learn strategies to help you structure a settlement to achieve maximum tax savings. And even if you are not able to negotiate more money in a settlement, structuring the settlement tax-wise can put additional funds in your pocket
She Says That She Can't Stand My Mood Swings by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D Ellen: I have been a stockbroker for over 15 years and my job causes me a lot of anxiety and stress. My wife has threatened to leave me for the first time in our marriage. She says that she can't stand my mood swings, which are tied to the stock market.
Believing in a Better Lifestyle by Crystal Woods How many of you have ever thought about the link between believing in yourself, and getting a good income? You would think that your income is based entirely on your skills, wouldn't you. Well, we know how true that one is.
Peace of Mind at the Workplace by Remez Sasson Work brings together people of different characters and behavior, and this often causes friction, resentment and stress. Sometimes the boss is too demanding, colleagues may be unpleasant, there might be too much work or the working conditions may not be
Why Enlightened Wealth?
Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth by Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen It's the vault containing everything you've ever wanted. On the other side of the huge door to that vault, a lifestyle of abundance and prosperity, wealth and security, awaits you. Behind that door is literally anything you want.
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The Future of Success; Working and Living in the New Economy by Robert B. Reich, Ph.D. If you think it's getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we're paying a steep price: we're working longer
Relationship Enhancement at the Workplace by James Lucoff When Dr. Bernard Guerney hit upon teachable skills that helped couples resolve conflict and enhance closeness in their relationships, it wasn
The New Yardstick
Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. The rules for work are changing. We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other. This yardstick is increasingly applied in choosing who will be
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| Advice & Discussions | should I move to California?? I'm at my uncle's place right now and my purpose of going here was to see my cousin get married. My uncle lives around LA and well, the music industry is here and there is a Sam's Club that I could transfer to over here as well. I love Cali and they do have a lot of people with tattoos/piercings and a lot of beautiful women here too :)
I have considered this before and I DID move to Arizona for tech school and got used to living there and I can live with my uncle and my cousins until I find a job. | Anyone with a bachelor's degree in economics? As the title says, who in here has a bachelor's in economics, and what do you do now/did you do when you got out of college?
Also, if anyone went to any sort of grad school, what did you study? | Having no luck in the job hunt. I went off to college got a degree, then went to grad school and picked up a master's (admittedly neither time was the major a HOT major) but I've been searching for a job since May 2005 and aside from a part time job (which I had to leave because the place was collapsing) and a freelance job (which doesn't provide enough work to live on, though it helps. | I Fear for my Future I've been extremely scared lately. Scared of simply being a failure, a loser, or any other negative term that can describe what I'm feeling. Why I'm feeling scared is hard to explain and has a bit to do with family and my standing in my family.
I love my family, don't get me wrong but sometimes they can really make me feel down. |
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