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24 Tips For Being Happy At Work (Healthy Living on Shine)
Of course, being happy at work depends mostly on how much you like your job. But there are also smaller steps that can boost your happiness, as well.
Your work space:
? Check for eyestrain: put your hand to your forehead in a salute. If your eyes feel relieved, your space is too bright.
? Get a good [...]
JOBS BILL UPDATE: Even The White House Admits It’s Weak (Yahoo!/AP)
There’s a problem with the bipartisan jobs bill emerging in the Senate: It won’t create many jobs.
The bill includes tax cuts to please Republicans and its passage would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory. But even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed [...]
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Jobs Bill Won’t Add Many Jobs (Yahoo! & AP
It sounds great: A big jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed victory and please Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But there’s a problem: It won’t create many jobs.
Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would [...]
CAREER DIRECTION: Blue Collar Jobs in Demand for 2010 (AOL/Payscale)
Ready for a career change but dread getting another desk job? Then how about trying your hand at, well, working with your hands?
“There is a blue collar renaissance going on right now,” says Joe Lamacchia, author of Blue Collar and Proud of It: The All-in-One-Resource for Finding Freedom, Financial Success, and Security Outside of the [...]
JOB REPORT: Cities Where Jobs & Income Are On The Up! (Forbes)
Professional success often requires some degree of sacrifice. Surprisingly, one of those sacrifices might include moving to the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio. Living in Delaware County is, in some ways, a smarter career move than packing up and heading for Wall Street or Silicon Valley.
With three-year income growth of 11% between 2007 and 2009, Delaware [...]
13 Careers That Will Survive The Next Decade (Kiplinger)
Few decisions are more important than choosing a career. And especially in these uncertain and changing times, no decision may be more difficult.
U.S. companies, saddled with increasingly onerous costs of employing people, are downsizing, cutting employees’ hours, hiring temps, automating jobs and sending work offshore. Meanwhile, technology is redefining existing jobs and demanding new skills [...]
Obama Ready To Unveil Plans For High-Speed Rail Plan (AP)
A day after delivering a State of the Union address aimed at showing recession-weary Americans he understands their struggles, President Barack Obama intends to award $8 billion in stimulus funds to develop high-speed rail corridors and sell the program as a jobs creator.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden plan to announce grants for 13 major [...]
They’re Hiring! Four Bright Spots In the Job Market (Yahoo!)
4 Fields That Are Still Hiring
By Lawrence Ross
Over the past year, bad news – bank failures, job loss, and a down housing market – has hovered over the economy like a dark cloud. But good news is on the horizon. According to Newsweek magazine, the stock market has rallied up 44% since March 2009. And [...]
10 Don’ts of Job Searching (Yahoo!/The Savvy Networker)
Old-school job-search advice is the worst. We read and hear it everywhere, yet no one can trace its source. Who made up the rule that we can’t use “I” in a resume, for instance? What’s worse is that most traditional job-seeking advice doesn’t work.
Here are my top 10 most useless job-search rules to break as [...]
Obama ‘Crashes and Burns’ With Job Speech (Huffington Post)
Here’s the key takeaway from President Obama’s jobs talk on Monday: It’s too little, too late.
Obama proposed an unspecified amount of new spending on infrastructure projects, more tax breaks for small businesses and a “Cash for Caulkers” program that would offer tax incentives for making homes more energy efficient.
It’s wonderful that the president is finally [...]
