Today, I am pleased to share with you my new book — a Boles Book for Becoming Job Ready — and I wrote the book to help young people learn how to wend their way into a new job marketplace, an area that is getting tougher, and more crowded, to survive in, and conquer, every day.
Five Thirty Eight is a new website that uses data quantification to make qualitative evaluations of our human lives. A recent article concerning people really only wanting to date themselves captured my attention.
Continue reading → Opposites End in a Vacuum of Ashes: Quantifying Human Compatibility
For each job offered in the marketplace today, there are 5.5 applicants. How do you best winnow the applicant pool? Some companies are actively choosing to reduce the number of job applicants by only accepting applications from people who already have a job. Huh?
I have written about New Year’s resolutions in the past but with this article, it is all going to end. My new years resolution this year is to never write another article about the problems inherent with New Year’s resolutions. Wait — let me rethink that. On second thought…
Continue reading → Destroying the Typical New Year Resolution
Working together in a collaborative manner is always wrought with perils and pitfalls. Finding common ground often involves the downward negotiation ideals, the shredding of core values and a watering down of fiery ideas to meet a melting, middling, middle-ground.
For nearly five years I worked from my apartment, wherever that was. I moved from one place to another and yet I still was working in the privacy of my own home with no one to tell me that I couldn’t work in my boxers if I wanted to. Somehow, boxer working never lost its appeal to me. It all changed when my main client could no longer afford to pay me and I had to get a job in “the real world” — a scary place where people wear trousers and can’t stroll into their kitchens for lunch.
Continue reading → Surrounded by Taco Hell and Eating on the Cheap
Have you ever noticed how “Busy People” — people that always reply to any inquiry or favor with, “I’m busy!” — are really the least busy people on the planet?
The business of writing is not mystical or special. Writing is tough and thankless work and I don’t know a working writer who has time to stop to attend a writer’s group because the author is either in the middle of a deadline or is collapsing after just hitting a drop-dead date.
Google are making many surprise moves early in 2009 and I love them all. The latest Google gift is the ability to use Google Gears to work offline with Gmail and your Google Calendar.
Google Gears worked up offline access for Docs last year and now, as you can see below on my Mac Desktop, I have direct access my mail, sked and workload 24/7/365 and I could not be happier.
Bruce Springsteen is back. His latest album — “Working on a Dream” — is acoustic and impressive. The haunting in his voice is everlasting.
Continue reading → Bruce Springsteen Working on a Spill in Aisle Two
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