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Career

Love or Money – Which Do You Work For?

August 26, 2010

Is it better to work for money or for love of craft? There was a time when I believed it was perfectly noble to pursue a career mainly for money, but life’s experience has changed that belief. Anything you’ll put in as much time as you will a career needs to be spent doing something [...]

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Time Is Money – What Are We Spending It On?

July 4, 2010

Creative avoidance. It’s an uncommon term used to describe an extremely common practice that most all of us engage in to one degree or another. It’s the time and effort we put into activities that will keep us from doing the ones that are really, really important—the kind that may even change our lives for [...]

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You’re Self-employed EVEN if You Work for Someone Else

March 30, 2010
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You report to work everyday as required by the company. You work on assignments and projects given to you by your boss or by other managers in the company. Your paycheck comes from your employer, and your retirement plan and benefits package are handled by them as well. You’re an employee, right? Not necessarily! You’re [...]

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12 Ways to Become a College Entrepreneur

March 9, 2010
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This is a guest post by Joel who is a Certified Financial Plannerâ„¢ that owns 4 different companies and is currently working on various web related projects including a website for finding car insurance rates and a website for comparing health insurance quotes. He would encourage everyone to consider starting their own business even if [...]

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The Secret to Success. Hustle.

February 4, 2010
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This is a topic I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. What makes a person or a business successful and I keep coming back to the same word: hustle. I don’t mean that you’re working some kind of racket or scam. Rather I’m talking about busting it with everything you’ve got, every time even when [...]

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The Career Diaries: Concierge, Front Desk, Doorman, Greeter

January 19, 2010
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The career diaries profile different professions giving you an insiders view of various jobs and careers. The goal being to give you a better view of a potential career by giving you more than the 10,000 foot view offered in vocation guides and top 50 job lists. A job is much more than a paycheck, [...]

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The Career Diaries: The Architect

November 18, 2009
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The career diaries profile different professions giving you an insiders view of various jobs and careers. The goal being to give you a better view of a potential career by giving you more than the 10,000 foot view offered in vocation guides and top 50 job lists. A job is much more than a paycheck, [...]

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The Career Diaries: The Network Engineer

November 5, 2009
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Today I’m starting a new series on FiscalGeek profiling different professions giving you an insiders view of various jobs and careers. The goal being to give you a better view of a potential career by giving you more than the 10,000 foot view offered in vocation guides and top 50 job lists. A job is [...]

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Boost your Income for a Season

August 13, 2009

If you’re driving towards a goal such as debt reduction, emergency savings, vacation or merely putting food on the table there’s a lot to be gained by temporarily boosting your income. There are certainly a lot of standard part time jobs like the old favorites: Pizza Delivery and Lawn Mowing but have you considered some [...]

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10 Interview Questions You Better Be Ready to Answer

July 17, 2009

Presented here are a sample of standard job interview questions you might be asked in a typical interview. These focus more on you, your experience, and how you handle yourself in various situations. Obviously you will probably be asked more technical questions related to the job at hand but through my over all experience as both an interviewee and interviewer these are some I’ve been asked and have in turn asked myself.

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