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Here’s a different philosophical take. From the make lemons from lemonade department…
A bad job market might mean you’re not going to get your dream job for a while. But maybe you should take this time as an opportunity to figure out where you want to see yourself when the bad times end.
The storm will pass. […]

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Last week, Lifehacker wrapped up their annual coolest cubicle contest.
The workspace pictured to the left is not the winner of that contest, but this is the workspace I want.
This guy rigged up his workspace atop a treadmill.
Another guy did a similar thing.
The thing about this setup, is you don’t have to set it to run […]

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The annual US News (do you still have to say “and World Report”) career guide is out. You can read most of it online here, but I recommend going out and purchasing the issue.
USNews seems to make it’s whole living by doing annual lists. Amongst the lists in this issue: 31 Careers With Bright Futures, […]

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Well, I think the lines through the text problem is fixed (earlier discussion here). Thanks to Mark, Chuck and Chris!
I believe it’s fixed, but I’m sort of bummed about it.
The culprit was a plugin I added called Popularity Contest. I loved it. It tracks the most read posts in real time. Great plugin.
Unfortunately (nerdy coding […]

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It’s a well-established fact, but probably a little-known one.
Your job search expenses can be tax deductible.
We’ve been telling our clients this for years: if you get your resume professionally produced, the cost of the resume is tax deductible.
SavvySugar has a rundown of the details:

Your job search must be for a position in the same field […]

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A couple of readers have alerted me that there is some sort of problem with the webpage. They’re reporting something about lines through the text, making some posts unreadible.
Is anyone else experiencing this? I can’t seem to replicate it, and I’ve tested it on IE, Safari and Firefox.
If you are experiencing this problem, please let […]

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I offer up this post, not as an endorsement of kissing butt, but as an informational essay.
Let’s face it… we all have negative feelings about ass kissers. And yet, we all know that, as a strategy for getting ahead in life, kissing butt can’t be beat. People wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
I’m in […]

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I’m sorry gang.
I’ve got some crazy ResumeWriters.com business stuff to take care of today (and yesterday, if you noticed).
I’m hoping that by tomorrow I’ll be at usual posting prolificacy.
For now, I do have to acknowledge that I stole the pic from Valleywag.
LOLcats parody humor always makes me laugh.
Not necessarily LOLcats humor. But parody humor.

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Also from BusinessWeek (good stuff from them this week)…
Lets think of offbeat places to look for work. Every time I’m in the mall, I see that little store that makes keys, and fixes shoes and repairs watches.
I always wonder… how do stores like that survive? Every mall has them. I’ve never given them more than […]

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This week’s BusinessWeek has the first solid statistics I’ve seen that prove that health care is the new plastics. (The Graduate reference) By that I mean, health care is finally fulfilling its promise as THE growth industry of the next 50 years.
For about 15 years now, prognosticators have sworn up and down that, for population […]

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