Turning Around Your Financial Life (Part 2 of the story)
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Yesterday’s post, Bad Debt Leads to a Bad Job and a Rough Life, hit home [...]
Bad Debt Leads To A Bad Job And A Rough Life
Chris felt like he had been kicked in the stomach when he saw how much he and Lisa would have to pay each month. “How are we going to make it? We have almost no disposable income as it is after car payments and insurance and the credit card!” Lisa tried to calm him down and told him that “things will work out somehow, they always do,” but Chris was inconsolable. “I’ll just have to get a better job,
7 Common Interview Questions For The New Graduate (or anyone else)
This is the second article in a series on Life Skills for the New Graduate by The Life Skills Network. All week we’ll be featuring tips for new grads. See the bottom of the article for details and a sneak peak at the coming lineup!
This post was graciously included as an EDITOR’S CHOICE in [...]
Advance Your Career With These Two Words
Drum roll please . . .
Thank you.
Those are the two words. Thank you. From the end of your first interview to the conclusion of your retirement party, those two words can do more to advance your career and endear you to the hearts of your bosses, co-workers, and subordinates than many others. Saying them isn’t [...]
7 Career Myths Exposed
We have manage our careers just like we manage other things in our lives. We manage our finances by closely scrutinizing our income and expenditures in relation to how we would like them to function, making adjustments all along the way. We manage our time by observing how we spend it in relation to how [...]
An Open Letter From Employees To Bosses
We, your employees, are in the position to make you look very good. We want to do so. You have the power to enable us to make you look good, and to protect us from silly bureaucracy and ridiculous management power struggles.
Many of us have been hired from outside the company, supposedly, because of what [...]
4 Reasons Your Job Doesn’t Pay Well
Aside from obvious job related performance issues and aside from a lack of job experience, there are 4 reasons your job may not pay well. These reasons are standard regardless of job and they hold true in virtually all economic situations.
People complain about a certain “important” job paying less than an “unimportant” job. They complain [...]
How I Cram for Those Mid Term Exams
OK, sometimes you’ve gotten distracted, or maybe you’ve had a personal problem. At any rate, you’ve fallen far behind in preparing for an exam, or a presentation, or a meeting of some sort. What now?
The first rule is don’t panic. Panic won’t get you anywhere and is even more distracting when you’re trying to absorb [...]
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 6 - Steps I Use to Cope With Stress
All stress is not bad. The human mind needs to experience some stress just to stay focused and sharp. I’ve read recently where some university studies have shown that the only completely stress free people in the world are dead. Wonder how much that study cost?
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 3 - How I Learned to Study
When I was in college I stumbled upon a study technique that consistently produced A’s in my classes. It did require a lot of work, but when I fully developed and followed these ideas, I aced my classes. I’m not talking easy 101 type classes either, I was excelling in 300 and 400 level courses. Your mileage may vary, but here’s how I did it:
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