Over the next few weeks, I want to share with you my 25 year experiences in the Business world. Namely, I want to share with you how I have very rarely been unemployed in my entire life. I started my very first business when I was 8, and I have worked a steady income producing job since I was 15 years old. I have never worried about the economy and I never listen to the media. I have only listened to me and I follow my instincts. You can too! I can help you! I am a 41 year old business woman who really likes to help people find jobs. Do not let others tell you, you can't find a job. YOU CAN! I know a girl right now who did not listen to others and she is working full time with benefits. THE KICKER! She did not even finish high school! SHE found a medical job!!! Plus they plan on training her for advancement! I am not making this up. That is my point. This is not a pie in the sky story. Anyone can do it. And I am going to show you how. All you have to do is keep reading and actually want to work at finding a job. If you are unemployed, turn O off and get to work finding a job. It is not going to be easy... BUT it can be done.
I am going to give you every detail on how to find a job. If you want to try it, great. If you don't... no sweat off my back. I am doing this for fun. Maybe I will write a book one day. But, until then, I am giving you this for free.
First, let me say, I know the market it bad. Well, not just bad... it is terrible. But, it is not terrible in the way most people look at it. You have to remember there are still jobs out there. Businesses must still conduct business. Older people are retiring (especially now that companies are trying to save money by getting rid of older employees), and young families having Babies everyday (many times female workers will stay home after having a baby).
The problem now is not a lack of good jobs, but the amount of people applying for those jobs has grown to above normal levels. So, instead of walking into a job with 5other people applying for the same job, you now have 100 applicants! The job is still there, but your chances of getting that job has just dropped lower than a snakes belly.
So, how can you apply for a job and raise the chances that you will get a job.
You have to actually write down a daily plan. YEP... get out a piece of paper and write down your daily plan. Come on, I am waiting....
You may write something like this - Apply to at least 3 jobs by lunch. Look up three more jobs after lunch. Shake three hands today and tell that person I am unemployed. (No shame in being unemployed - and people are willing to help).
If you don't do this, you have already failed. If you don't have a plan you will fall into a rut of getting up late and sitting in front of the TV all day.
OK so you feel stressed and scared. SO set aside 1-2 hours a day (evening is best) for fun, and it is ok if it is TV. You need to take a little while to excape reality of the stressful events happening. BUT, put these items on your PLAN!
Now, the first thing on your plan today and everyday is...
you need to do is expand where you are going to look for a job.
On this post I am going to updating my arsenal of links for employment. Some of these links will be old school for most people, but some may surprise you. Save the link to this exact post. I will edit it as I find more links to add to it. All you will have to do is continue to check back and look for new links.
In the next few days I will show you how to use these links to your advantage. Heck, if you are reading this you are looking for a new job or are unemployed, so take today to really get familiar with the companies offering the jobs. This information will be important as I post more ideas.
Common Links for employment:
http://www.monster.com
http://www.careerbuilder.com
Uncommon Links for employment
http://www.usajobs.gov/
** One of my favorite little known employment websites. You get extra employment points for ANY amount of honorable military service! Mnay fantastic jobs do NOT require a degree **
http://www.sologig.com/
**Don't let the name fool you. This one has temp, contract, and permanate jobs.**
http://medzilla.com/
* This one has all kinds of medical jobs. Cute, young people with a college degree who are complaining; apply here, you can be a pharm rep. **
http://www.craigslist.org
** Many people overlook craigslist.org as a good place to find a job. DON'T! They have great jops all over the nation!**
Continue to check back. I am going to post more links.
PLUS, come back tomorrow for PART 2 of the plan.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Blind Pilot Lands Plane with help
I have included this link into "Happy Dance Stories"
http://news.aol.com/article/pilot-blinded-by-stroke-lands-safely/241734?icid=200100397x1212704838x1200839972
We are not all pilots, but this story is really a show of how humans can really work together to accomplish the impossible. Can you imagine how the other pilot feels that his eyes and the blind pilot's experience worked together for a happy ending? What a story! What if we all combined our knowledge and experience?
Imagine what we could accomplish!
The "seeing" pilot took a risk, if he failed he would have to live forever with the image of a man crashing and burning to death, BUT if he took the risk and won, the man would survive and he could live forever with the story of success.
What a wonderful choice he made!
Now that makes for a good day! :-)
http://news.aol.com/article/pilot-blinded-by-stroke-lands-safely/241734?icid=200100397x1212704838x1200839972
We are not all pilots, but this story is really a show of how humans can really work together to accomplish the impossible. Can you imagine how the other pilot feels that his eyes and the blind pilot's experience worked together for a happy ending? What a story! What if we all combined our knowledge and experience?
Imagine what we could accomplish!
The "seeing" pilot took a risk, if he failed he would have to live forever with the image of a man crashing and burning to death, BUT if he took the risk and won, the man would survive and he could live forever with the story of success.
What a wonderful choice he made!
Now that makes for a good day! :-)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Birth of a Blog
This blog is the final product of my time working on blogs and learning how they work. For almost an entire year I have been trying to figure out blogs, and what they really mean to me. I see people write blogs all the time, but I never knew I would ever want, or need one.
In January 2008, I hurt my back during a military exercise and my whole life outlook changed. If anyone has had any dealings with military health care, you know that it can sometimes be a big hassle to deal with. The regulations, the paperwork, and the constant updates that everyone is supposed to have at any given time will be enough to make anyone lose their mind. The process of getting any help for my back was becoming overwhelming, so one of my coworkers suggested I start a blog. Then she suggested, anytime I had an update, I could just send it out to anyone who needed it. This would serve two purposes; I could update everyone, plus new people involved in the case could go back and see all the previous posts without resorting to reading tons of e-mails. So, thinking this was a great idea, I went searching for a simple blog. Unfortunately, at that point, I had only made comments on other blogs. I never had my own blog. So, my education into blogs began.
I searched out how to create a blogs, and how to let others comment on my post. I even had some of the adjustments worked out. Eventually I figured it out, and my first military blog was born. At first I thought I had it figured out. Well, I was wrong. As my military case became more complicated, I wanted to share my experience more. I wanted to help others understand what soldiers go through to get medical help.
Throughout the ordeal, my thoughts and my life became more complicated. No only did I have my military blog, I had my family blog, and I also wanted a blog to keep me occupied while I was healing. Then I realized I was having fun commenting on news articles, and world issues, so I started a news blog. There was always something more that I wanted to do while I was healing. By the time I was finished, I had about 10 blogs on individual ideas and circumstances. It was too much for me to keep up with. I loved sharing my day and ideas with people I had never met, but it was becoming too much. I couldn't do it anymore. I was truly addicted!
I had become a blog junkie!
Instead of having fun, I was spending my time on my blogs, even if it was just to say Good Morning! The blog monkey had taken control of my life. The sad part is, at that point in time of my life, I had so much going on in my life, every moment was precious, but the blogs were keeping me sane. No one from work called to see how I was doing and because of this injury, I almost lost my career. This was an incredibly dark time in my life. I was fighting for medical help, I was fighting for my job, and I was fighting to hang onto my military career. But, on many days, I was in so much pain I could not get out of bed, and when I did, I would just lay on the couch. The pain in my back caused such terrible migraines, I would cry and wish I could find some relief. Sometimes, the only time I had any contact with other and had any fun was to blog with strangers. They did not see this tired, hurting shell of a person who was sad and discouraged. There were nights that the pain would not allow me to sleep very well, and blogging at 3am was the one thing that was keeping me sane. But, I knew, I had to give some of them up. My amount of blogs were out of control.
One day I wrote down exactly what I liked, and what I enjoyed about sharing my thoughts, my experiences, and my life. I had to consolidate what was really important to me at this exact point in my life. After some thought, I realized it wasn't one or two things that I found important, but there are many issues that need addressing from day to day. I may have an opinion about the military on one day, the government the next, and I may comment about general health care on the third day. I wanted a place where I could chat with others, and we could share our opinions about what is relevant about each individual day, not speciafically about each individual topic.
This Blog's name represents how I am feeling about certain issues in today's society. I have created this Blog as a way to share my thoughts and opinions with the world. Basically my husband is tired of hearing about all my opinions, so I am sharing it with you, the world. :-) I am also going to share my day, my thoughts, my diets, my children, my new ideas, etc. Yes, it may be boring one day and very scary the next. On all things, maybe we will agree. Maybe we won't. In any case, I hope we can agree to disagree. I also hope that together we can see the world in a whole new light.
So, a BLOG is born. Here we are. I hope we can form a group where we will be able to share our ideas about this crazy world we live in. So, come on in, sit right down, prop your feet up, and let’s do some Blogging.
Amanda
“Those who risk nothing, will never have anything to risk.”
- Amanda (I do believe this one is mine:-)
Please visit my military medical issue blog at,
http://veteranspersonalitydisorder.blogspot.com/
In January 2008, I hurt my back during a military exercise and my whole life outlook changed. If anyone has had any dealings with military health care, you know that it can sometimes be a big hassle to deal with. The regulations, the paperwork, and the constant updates that everyone is supposed to have at any given time will be enough to make anyone lose their mind. The process of getting any help for my back was becoming overwhelming, so one of my coworkers suggested I start a blog. Then she suggested, anytime I had an update, I could just send it out to anyone who needed it. This would serve two purposes; I could update everyone, plus new people involved in the case could go back and see all the previous posts without resorting to reading tons of e-mails. So, thinking this was a great idea, I went searching for a simple blog. Unfortunately, at that point, I had only made comments on other blogs. I never had my own blog. So, my education into blogs began.
I searched out how to create a blogs, and how to let others comment on my post. I even had some of the adjustments worked out. Eventually I figured it out, and my first military blog was born. At first I thought I had it figured out. Well, I was wrong. As my military case became more complicated, I wanted to share my experience more. I wanted to help others understand what soldiers go through to get medical help.
Throughout the ordeal, my thoughts and my life became more complicated. No only did I have my military blog, I had my family blog, and I also wanted a blog to keep me occupied while I was healing. Then I realized I was having fun commenting on news articles, and world issues, so I started a news blog. There was always something more that I wanted to do while I was healing. By the time I was finished, I had about 10 blogs on individual ideas and circumstances. It was too much for me to keep up with. I loved sharing my day and ideas with people I had never met, but it was becoming too much. I couldn't do it anymore. I was truly addicted!
I had become a blog junkie!
Instead of having fun, I was spending my time on my blogs, even if it was just to say Good Morning! The blog monkey had taken control of my life. The sad part is, at that point in time of my life, I had so much going on in my life, every moment was precious, but the blogs were keeping me sane. No one from work called to see how I was doing and because of this injury, I almost lost my career. This was an incredibly dark time in my life. I was fighting for medical help, I was fighting for my job, and I was fighting to hang onto my military career. But, on many days, I was in so much pain I could not get out of bed, and when I did, I would just lay on the couch. The pain in my back caused such terrible migraines, I would cry and wish I could find some relief. Sometimes, the only time I had any contact with other and had any fun was to blog with strangers. They did not see this tired, hurting shell of a person who was sad and discouraged. There were nights that the pain would not allow me to sleep very well, and blogging at 3am was the one thing that was keeping me sane. But, I knew, I had to give some of them up. My amount of blogs were out of control.
One day I wrote down exactly what I liked, and what I enjoyed about sharing my thoughts, my experiences, and my life. I had to consolidate what was really important to me at this exact point in my life. After some thought, I realized it wasn't one or two things that I found important, but there are many issues that need addressing from day to day. I may have an opinion about the military on one day, the government the next, and I may comment about general health care on the third day. I wanted a place where I could chat with others, and we could share our opinions about what is relevant about each individual day, not speciafically about each individual topic.
This Blog's name represents how I am feeling about certain issues in today's society. I have created this Blog as a way to share my thoughts and opinions with the world. Basically my husband is tired of hearing about all my opinions, so I am sharing it with you, the world. :-) I am also going to share my day, my thoughts, my diets, my children, my new ideas, etc. Yes, it may be boring one day and very scary the next. On all things, maybe we will agree. Maybe we won't. In any case, I hope we can agree to disagree. I also hope that together we can see the world in a whole new light.
So, a BLOG is born. Here we are. I hope we can form a group where we will be able to share our ideas about this crazy world we live in. So, come on in, sit right down, prop your feet up, and let’s do some Blogging.
Amanda
“Those who risk nothing, will never have anything to risk.”
- Amanda (I do believe this one is mine:-)
Please visit my military medical issue blog at,
http://veteranspersonalitydisorder.blogspot.com/
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