You borrow a lawn mower.
You walk down the street knocking on doors.
You ask people who answer the door, “May I mow your lawn?”
Most people will ignore you, some will slam the door in your face and a few will threaten to call the cops.
Persist.
Probably between the 20th [...]
Continue Reading →Forget taking college courses.
Forget reading books.
Forget job fairs.
If you want to succeed, find the people who have done or are doing what you want to do and do what they are doing. Very simply, copy success.
If you want to own a dress shop or sell luxury real estate, [...]
Continue Reading →I have a nephew who works for State Street Bank.
The CEO of State Street, Jay Hooley, has vowed to see how he can effectively run his company with as few employees as possible.
In the first round of layoffs, my nephews department shrunk from five employees to three. The same amount of work and [...]
Continue Reading →Watching television this morning, I saw a young man being interviewed about his voting preferences. He said that he was voting for Romney because he was a recent college graduate and he didn’t have a job.
The young man was wearing a baseball cap slightly askew. Did he look like an idiot? Pretty close.
He [...]
Continue Reading →The Gap Year is that that twelve month period between high school and college or between college and graduate school or between college and getting a “real” job.
Some students actually feel that they are entitled to take a gap year as a sort of respite or vacation after the rigors of academia.
Continue Reading →What is the salary enjoyed by the elite practitioners in your field? Be mindful. This is your benchmark.
Elite mindful plumbers may make $200,000 a year.
Elite mindful law partners may make $500,000 a year.
Elite mindful teachers may make $100,000 a year.
Know the figure. Be happy with the figure. If not, [...]
Continue Reading →Can’t or won’t
Find another industry. You work in the steel industry or for a newspaper, video rental, tobacco or clothing company, consider packing your bags because technology and foreign competition are killing these industries. Forget the wishful thinking and the politicians empty promises. Get off the ship.
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Will the president’s next new job plan work? Could a Republican in the White House do a better job?
Is Microsoft hiring while Bank of America is firing?
You can anticipate and hope. You can lament. You can feel betrayed by teachers and parents and politicians. You can feel sorry for yourself. You can wait. [...]
Continue Reading →Living in the United States, in 2011, how much money do you need to afford a decent lifestyle – nothing fancy – just decent?
You want to make enough money to:
1. To pay your bills.
2. To invest so that at some point your investments work while you retire.
3. To spoil those you love. Yes, [...]
Continue Reading →Read today’s headlines …
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN JOBS.
Read tomorrow’s headlines …
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN JOBS.
To get a job, you’ve got to be prepared and calculating.
To advance in a company, you’ve got to be prepared, calculating, smart and have a high [...]
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