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  • Working Women And The Recession: What’s Next?

    Many women have had to face the reality of either returning to work or working longer hours in order to make ends meet.  This may be due to a spouse or partner losing their job, or their own job loss.  But where does this leave [...]

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  • Unemployment + Bad Credit UPDATE: States May Ban Credit Checks On Job Applicants

    Remember this story?  Most of you were fired up, and rightfully so. It’s a$$inine to bar someone to get a job because they have bad credit. This is why we have criminal background checks. Perhaps a remedy would be to give the person a mandatory [...]

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  • 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women

    Marie Claire has a very interesting article that details the 5 Secrets of The Highest Paid Women and I agree with their rationale. 1.  Be Yourself. In order to achieve anything in life, you need to be authentic and true to who you are.  This [...]

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  • Find Your Passion: Love Your Work: Tips Galore!

    So I know you’re saying, find my passion? Ginger, I can hardly find a job I like much less talk about my passion! Those of you that do have jobs, I know these days may find it hard to tolerate let alone fathom adding the [...]

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  • Discussion: “If you smoke or are overweight, then you cost me money and I cannot hire you.”-Fair Or Not?

    With Obama’s recent visit to the Cleveland clinic, who will cease hiring smokers as of September 1, the Today Show is speculating that this may become a corporate health care trend. Here’s the message from Dr Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President at the Cleveland Clinic: [...]

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  • Read This: Unemployment + Bad Credit = No Job

    Yes you read right!  If you are unemployed and have bad credit then you have another hurdle to get past:  employers unwilling to higher you because of bad credit. It’s important to note that this is the kind of bad credit where the potential employee [...]

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  • Having It All: Giving Up Peak Earning Potential To Have A Baby

      If you’ve been reading this blog for some time then you know that I am truly on a  quest to “have it all”.  I want the man, the house, kids, degree and picket fence all by 30, and I got started at 26. But [...]

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  • The High Life On Less: What Can You Afford To Live Without?

    What can you afford to live without? We were faced with this question while visiting some friends in Manhattan this weekend.  This was our first time visiting their apartment and we were pleasantly surprised to say the least.  So much so it made us go [...]

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  • SAHMs Read This: ‘Economoms’ Back to the Job Market

    Hard times and shrinking paychecks are forcing some stay at home moms to return to the job market.  Meet the Economommies. They are women who chose to leave the workforce in order to focus more on child rearing but with recent market downturns, scrambling to [...]

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  • Recharge Your Resume And Get Back In The Game: 7 Tips

    If you’ve been out of work for some time or recently fired/laid off then this post is for you. As the time goes by and job fairs are posted it seems as though they can’t get here fast enough. You focus so much energy on [...]

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  • How To Make A Layoff Payoff: 6 Surefire Tips

    Readers Digest has a really fabulous article about getting on your feet after a layoff.  Sometimes we see it coming and there are others for whom it comes out of the blue sky with no warning.  But in this economy, everyone should have a clear [...]

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  • Save Your Ass Series: How To Avoid Being The Office Bitch

    Now isn’t the time to be the office bitch.  You have a job to keep, bills to pay and a peace of mind to maintain.  It also isn’t the time to be the office wallflower, never in the know about the next axe to drop.  [...]

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  • Feminism 2.0: Highlighting Society’s Issues and Women’s Voices

    If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, [...]

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  • Do I Stay or Go? One Woman’s Struggle To Step Out On Her Own (Video)

    How likely are you to leave a bad marriage if you have no education or poor career prospects? I realize there may be other factors such as children, years put into the marriage and each party’s willingness to work things out. But let’s put that [...]

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  • Career Couples: Who Becomes The Trailing Spouse?

    (image: pro.corbis.com) Who’s career is more important in your household?   Is it yours?  Significant other’s?  Well, according to this CNN article: Career couples fight over who’s the ‘trailing spouse’, more emphasis is usually placed on the man’s career. What do you think about that?  [...]

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