Sep

15

Switch careers before it is too late.

September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

If you wake up one morning and think you may be on the wrong career for very important reasons: you may be.  And it may be better to jump ship while there are lifeboats available.  You do not want to find yourself without a job and trying to go back to the same career you [...]

Sep

4

Those Jobs Will Never Come Back – New Ones Will

September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

National unemployment rate jumps to 9.7%.  If you count those that are working part time or gave up looking for a job, it jumps to 16.8% – and you can probably keep increasing that number if you count the people who where not even intending to work.  I think this nation is having a difficult [...]

Aug

31

If You are So Smart, Why Don’t You Take His Job?

August 31, 2009 | Comments Off

Many acquaintances complaint about the poor management of the companies for which they work. I feel bad for them for two reasons:

If management is really bad, you should run for cover — or at least a better job. Bad management tends to destroy companies and with them the jobs of the people working for them. [...]

Aug

20

A Door

August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

One of the most important things to visualize in business (or employment, where you trade your time for money) is a Door.  Some mornings I even draw a door on the notebook paper I am bringing to the meeting, just to keep it as a reminder of my real Door.  With Door I mean, the [...]

Jul

22

Networking Events: Some Are Not Worth It

July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Situation:
With a networking event I mean those by open invitation, where you pay a small fee for a couple of hours of chit-chat with fellow networkers and spill out your 30 second elevator speech hundreds of times while guzzling appetizers and drinking cheap wine (others describe it similarly). If you are lucky, the [...]

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