Having worked many different jobs in many different environments, I can honestly say, based on my own personal experience that I prefer working with guys or prefer the majority of staff to be male, rather than female. Or an almost even number of males and females on staff. My current workplace is male dominated with only a few females. The…
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The 2008-2009 recession can be considered as the worst recession since the Great Depression. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Great Depression, it began in 1929 and lasted for 10 years. Here’s a little blurb taken from About.com on the Great Depression of 1929: “Its kickoff in the U.S. economy was ‘Black Thursday,’ October 24, 1929, when…
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You might have heard about the “underground” job market. According to the Harvard Business School, 65% to 85% of jobs are filled without them ever reaching the market. So how did employers fill them? Well, through networking. They hired friends, ex-colleagues, acquaintances and even a friend of a friend. As an introvert, you might protest that the system isn’t fair….
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A January post is well overdue for me. Like many bloggers, I felt I had to recover from December which was absolutely nuts. It probably wasn’t the best time to take possession of our house, move in and try to organize everything in the house, but we chose a date in December. My full time and part time job made…
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In a 1789 letter to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Leroy, founding father Benjamin Franklin wrote, “. . .in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Of course, unlike the rest of us, Ben never went over a fiscal cliff and into a new economic world where even taxes were anything but certain – or at…
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