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7 Ways to Maximize the Time You Spend Commuting
When people ask when you're joining the rat race, it sounds like such a dark and unpleasant way to describe working life. If you don't make the most of the time you spend on unfortunately necessary evils like commuting, it's going to feel a lot like a rat race taking part in a city's filthiest sewer.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Journal
How to Start Blacksmithing for Under $50
Will Turner, from The Pirates of the Caribbean. Whenever I try to think of a blacksmith, he's the one who comes to mind. And man, does he have a nice shop. Hundreds of hammers, hundreds of tongs, a giant furnace, and seemingly enough steel to outfit the entire English Navy with fine steel cutlasses and bayonets.
By D.C. Perry7 years ago in Journal
How to Rock Your Freelance Portfolio When You Have Zero Experience
Let me start this by telling you that my entire "so-called career" was shaped by the oddly adequate relationship I have with the people I work with. I never had to show my portfolio to a stranger inside some cold and distant office that took me three hours of insane traffic to reach for a chance to ghost write an op-ed for an adult magazine that nobody actually reads. I also never had to have drinks with the editors at some night club to talk about a feature I thought had a decent chance to be featured on the front page of a newspaper.
By Lovelli Fuad7 years ago in Journal
How to Exponentially Maximize Your Vocal.media Income
Let me be honest here. I joined Vocal.media back in December of 2017. I wrote several articles over a period of three months during rehab from knee surgery. I am a writer-producer by profession. However, I could not focus on my more business-related creativity and so I experimented writing content for this website.
By Joel Eisenberg7 years ago in Journal
Have You Always Wanted to Write a Book?
Has writing a book been on your bucket list? Helping people get their books written, published, and most importantly marketed so that they sell, is a passion for me! I spent way too long in the quagmire of 'I don't know what to do' so I didn't do... anything.
By Amanda Rose7 years ago in Journal
Surviving Working Retail During the Holiday Season
I've been working part time in retail for two years now at a local mall that is relatively busy year round. The store I work at is pretty popular, so things tend to get busy after Halloween. I remember how hectic my first holiday season was at work, but I can promise you, you can (and will) handle it. Here are five ways to help make this holiday season in retail one to remember.
By Suzanne Gayle7 years ago in Journal
It Happens to the Best of Us
We all know that people make mistakes; many of us make mistakes on a daily basis. Because of this little fact of life, this makes it hard to receive negative feedback (especially at work) when one or more of those mistakes lead to loss of a sale, a potential partnership with another company, one's self or another employee getting injured while at work, and the like. We instantly feel as though such mistakes can happen to anyone, and thus when it does happen, we should not be blamed or treated badly because of it. We certainly don't want to feel like we are somehow less capable than we thought we were!
By Jackie Barrows7 years ago in Journal
Fantastic Resumes and How to Send Them—5 Tips. Top Story - November 2018.
Just to give a little bit of a credibility, I used to work in an HR company as a talent acquisition associate, and later as a recruiter. So I've seen a good deal of CVs. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. Some of them were just so awful and ridiculous that I decided not to do it ever again. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit, but still! Here are the things which made me go for "no" and a few more suggestions.
By Anna Dvorakova7 years ago in Journal
