The Best-Laid Plans
Jan 18, 2012 Job Reviews Leave a comment | Tags: Plans
The best-laid plans of travelers often go awry…a truth you will most definitely learn on the road. Traveling long term is different than a vacation. In a vacation you normally have to maximize your short time very carefully; transportation, lodging, tours, and sometimes food is often planned. However when you are roaming from place to place over the period of 3 to 12 months, planning each detail becomes much harder.
Here are some things to consider when trying to plan:
Sometimes when you plan too much in advance, the universe has a way of laughing at those plans. T
Trumka Dissents from Jobs Council Report
Jan 17, 2012 Career News Leave a comment | Tags: Report
The 72-page report, issued yesterday by the Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, makes many solid suggestions for how to address our nations jobs crisis, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. But Trumka says the fundamental focus is so flawed that, as a member of the council, he issued a dissent to the report. In sum, Trumka writes:
I believe the report downplays the need for a proactive role for the U.S.
4 Most Rewarding Designer Careers Path
Jan 13, 2012 Career Tips Leave a comment | Tags: Designer, Designer Careers
It is easy to believe that designers just sit around and draw art all day. A minority of them do. But most commercial designers do not just sit around and draw art all day. In general, they take instructions from their clients or bosses before they draft out ideas. Once their ideas are rendered, they are presented to the client. The finished products are seen in our everyday lives.
Want to know where to find designer careers in everyday life? Picture this: you are at a bus stop. You turn to your right and you see an advertisement of an airbrushed athlete wearing running shoes. A career woman standing beside it is decked out in Armani suit, fiddling with her diamond wedding ring.
Walker, Kasich FAIL
Jan 3, 2012 Career News Leave a comment | Tags: Fail
How does a top Republican operative describe grand gubernatorial failures? Four words: Scott Walker, John Kasich.
A recent memo from Pennsylvania Gov.