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How to Choose Your Ideal Career

They say that most people do complete and total career changes at least once often twice in their lifetimes. Very few people chose the ideal perfect career for themselves when theyre in high school and blissfully happily work those same jobs for the rest of their lives. With the way that technology and everything else […]

How to Be Prepared for a Layoff

If you are concerned that your company might be planning a layoff, your best course of action is to be prepared. Employees often see warning signs that their jobs may be at risk. Such signs could include poor company performance, earlier rounds of layoffs, conflicts with their manager, increased manager intervention and involvement, and poor […]

Wanted Free Agent

Once upon a time, it was reasonable to think a person could grow up, get a job and work at it the rest of his life until retirement. Those days are quickly becoming a thing of the past. According to experts, a person who begins work today can expect to have as many as fourteen […]

Any Job is an Honorable Job

Seeing your job as an honorable job, adds more meaning and peace to your life. Also, seeing the honor in what you do now, creates an ideal foundation upon which a career change can be built.
At fifteen, my first job was that of a waitress at a local truck stop. One day, back then, I […]

The Path to Your Right Livelihood

Find Fulfilling Work from Within
Seeking meaningful and fulfilling work can become a discouraging, confusing and overwhelming journey. Beware spending too much time looking for your answers outside of yourself. Ultimately, coming to know our right livelihood is the inner work of our whole being.
In order to nurture our well-being and come to our right livelihood; […]

How to get a job offer from every interview

About four years ago a friend told me one night that she had an interview the next week and was looking for some comfort as she was extremely nervous, as most people are about interviews. I thought back on my my carreer and realized that in the nine year of my career I had been […]

Turning Their Loss Into Your Job Gain

Turning Their Loss Into Your Job GainCopyright 2004
It isnt the end of the world, even if it seems like it. Losing your job can be a heart-breaking experience. After all, your security in life and your abilities is now in question. You can feel disillusioned and there is the ever-nagging question of: What do I […]

Architecture for Ships

What is Naval Architecture? Many folks will not have a slightest idea.
Its a field of study that involves Physics, Mechanics, Engineering and Legislation.
Architecture involves design of buildings.
Naval Architecture is slightly different. Many considerations need to be made when we construct a ship that can travel through stormy seas, maintain the stability with constantly […]

When Youre the New Employee or Temporary

Its amazing what people dont think to tell you when youre new to their place of business. Everyone should be required to work somewhere new for a first day about once a year to remember what its like. Someone whos worked in the same office for months of years forgets, so youll have to remind […]

Transitioning portable careers for global military families

Mention virtual business or portable careers in the military community and typically you think of the military spouse, veteran, or military retiree jump-starting their own business - - keeping in touch with clients, colleagues or a combination of both. How? Electronically of course.
The evolvement of home office technology presents a wealth of opportunity for the […]