2 Mar, 2012
New New Message
For most people, new is intriguing. It is full of wonder, possibility and opportunity. And even if new is not any of those things in the end, it could have been and that makes us interested.
So when we see that we have (1) new message, the optimist in us believes that this is it. The big voice message, email or text that will lead to our next job. And a path out of job search transition.
Of course, you can become obsessed with new messages to the point where your excitement over them exposes a true desperation on your part. It causes you to over-react to opportunities and have a negative Pavlovian response every time the little red light blinks or the little checking mail graphic starts to move.
Read my post from 2009 about the blinking red light on a Blackberry and how too much focus on new messages can be a negative.
But today the focus is on how your being fresh and new can be a real positive. How
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27 Feb, 2012
Assistance Selfemployment Assistance
Self-Employment Assistance is a special program that helps eligible unemployed workers, including those with disabilities, attempt to become self-employed while collecting state unemployment benefits.
Typically, unemployed workers must regularly seek new employee jobs to remain eligible for receiving state unemployment benefits.
Under the Self-Employment Assistance program, unemployed workers may instead attempt to become self-employed, such as by starting up small businesses or becoming independent contractors. Better yet, they may receive free help and encouragement from local workforce investment boards in order to succeed at it.
State unemployment offices are not required to participate in the Self-Employment Assistance program, but may do so voluntarily.
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27 Feb, 2012
College Work Experience
College students take note: Prior work experience may be a requisite for getting your foot in the door with employers, a new Accountemps survey suggests. Nine in ten CFOs interviewed said it’s important for entry-level accounting and finance professionals to gain practical experience while in college. The survey was developed by Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance, and bookkeeping professionals. Read full article…
22 Feb, 2012
Congress Congress Keep
WASHINGTON (AP) — Relishing a political victory, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress “did the right thing” by extending payroll tax cuts for millions of Americans. He urged lawmakers to push forward on more measures, from assistance to struggling homeowners to increased taxes on the wealthy, saying the looming election was no excuse for inaction in Washington.
“Don’t stop here. Keep going,’” Obama said during a White House event marking the passage of the tax cuts.
“Keep taking the action that people are calling for to keep this economy growing. This may be an election year, but the American people have no patience for gridlock,” he said.
Obama was celebrating a tax cut that is already in place, but due to expire at month’s end. H
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20 Feb, 2012
English Major Major
I live in the Seattle area. I have worked at a bookstore for four years, since I graduated college with an English major. Retail has become more and more stressful for me, and I have told myself many times over the past few years that I should try to find some other job, maybe in copy editing or proofreading. But I do want to go to graduate school in the fall, probably for environmental sciences, so I would not be able to stay at whatever job I take for more than six or seven months.
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