“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison The beauty of a “functional job” (like Technology, Finance, HR, etc.) is that you can either work for a company that specializes in what you do (Technology Companies, Financial Institutions, Executive Recruiters, etc.) OR you can practice [...] [...]
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“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” – Winston Churchill By the time I finished my undergraduate degree (the last half of which I did at night), I knew that I did not want to have a career in my selected major (imagine). Since [...] [...] “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford “And the winner is . . .”. How many times have you heard those words? Better yet, how many times have you heard them followed by your name? It’s great to be the winner, “the best”. Not all [...] [...] “Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.” – Henry Ford The longer you’ve been out of work, the harder it is to find a job. True or not? Hard to say as there are several factors that impact the validity of that statement. First, a long job search can lead to [...] [...] ” The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein As you’ve no doubt figured out by now, there is a list for everything. I’m not sure if it is just that the lists are more accessible via the Internet or if the Internet has inspired more lists (I’m sure it’s a [...] [...] “Let the good times roll, let them knock you around” – The Cars If you are one of the thousands of people who graduated from college this last May (and you are not working on the “next degree”), there is a very good chance that you’ve not found a job yet. Still one of the worst [...] [...] “The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.” – Socrates It’s still a tough job market out there, and although many companies reduced their workforce last year, many actually added jobs. While not every company on the Best Companies list added jobs, many did. Today’s list [...] [...] “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.“ – M.H. Alderson I think that being #1 is somewhat overrated. After all, if you are in the top “anything” that is pretty good. When prepping for today’s post, I was trying to think of something where I came in first during my life and the [...] [...] “Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” – Serge Gainsbourg Imagine, you are at your company’s annual sales conference. Hundreds of attendees from all over the world are attending this event in Las Vegas. It is several days and nights of drinking, gambling and boring conferences (did I mention drinking?). Anyway, tonight [...] [...] “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools” – Douglas Adams Competition. We were taught from a very young age that that’s what it’s all about (weren’t we?). From our first sporting event (did you win or lose?) to your grades in school, [...] [...] |
 
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