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Reminder: Bad Credit Can Affect Your Employment.

Bankrate.com’s Steve Bucci recently answered a question from a reader about whether bad credit can hurt your job prospects.
The reader’s roommate defaulted on 2 payday loans while he was out of work (ouch!), and subsequently relocated to Washington, D.C. (debtor’s capital of the world!). He managed to get a job, but two months into it [...]

15 High stress, low pay jobs.

I stumbled across this a few days ago, and thought I’d share it. It’s CNN/Money’s list of 15 jobs that offer high stress, and low pay.

I’m not sure what their criteria were or how they determined the amount of stress. The low pay aspect is fairly easy to determine, each is below the median household [...]

Are You a Duck or an Eagle?

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
~ Thomas Alva Edison
I’m currently reading The One Minute Entrepreneur, The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business by Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson And Ethan Willis.
There was a chapter that really hit home. In this chapter, the authors quote [...]

Does Your Paycheck Have an Expiration Date?

Meet Carl Clay,  a former medical director for a pharmaceutical communications firm. He lost his job in December of 2008 and it took him about 2-3 months to find a new job. The problem is that his new job is a temporary contract - 10 months, to be exact.
Money Magazine profiles Mr Clay in its [...]

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