Archive for the ‘Catch-All’ Category

your dream career . . .

Dream careers are not just for the lucky. There is no mystery or magic in the process. The starting point is generally the most difficult. You have to believe in yourself enough to follow a dream. So how do you find your dream career? Follow these steps. Believe that you will succeed Self-belief is crucial. [...]

more on money from home . . .

Good time to start thinking about methods for making money from home in 2012. Things are not getting much better in America’s employment arena, especially if you are somewhat older, so . . . For years, my at-home income brought in “spending money.” My day job just about covered expenses, but not much else. So [...]

so much for privacy . . .

Earlier I posted In Pajamas? Still Visible! dealing with our lack of privacy on the Internet. It was relating to a Federal Trade Commission stamp of approval to background checks using social media. Further to that, you might want to know that ANYONE can take a screen shot of your posts and post them on [...]

At random . . .

This was just sent to me. Grudge-Holding Crows Pass On Their Anger to Family and Friends . . . This article is from Discover Magazine: A few years ago scientists learned that American crows can recognize and remember human faces, particularly faces they associate with bad experiences. Now, new research published in the Proceedings of [...]

working from home

Job loss has been devastating to families and worker’s retirement plans have been attacked by America’s twisting, all of which is causing great stress among the employed. Jobs haven’t come back as promised by our politicians and it no one is offering miracle cures. Obviously, individuals will have to take more responsibility for their financial [...]

buzzwords or effective?

iContact.com offered a social media seminar this morning. So I’m sitting in. Basically, in case you don’t know, social media is viral marketing, i.e. you eMail your friends/subscribers. Your associates then share through Facebook, Twitter, Linked In icons which are included in your eMails and on your Web site(s). Including social media icons now is [...]

ongoing education

Now that Amazon.com isn’t functioning in California, we have to revamp 10 years’ worth of work on our oldest site . . . The Maritime Heritage Project. All links from that project and several other sites need to be moved away from any Amazon company/product/recommendation; we’re less than estatic about that. However, this provides an [...]

affiliate marketing & self-publishing

Part of my Prosper in Pajamas “career” includes affiliate marketing programs and publishing my own books and selling them through my Web site as PDF publications. It’s quite easy as explained in the Adobe Acrobat X PDF Bible. Companies such as Kobo with its KoboeReader.com offer more than 2 million ebook titles, which you can [...]

decline of the hierarchy

Excerpted from Forbes.com Rethinking Leadership By KARL MOORE and KYLE HILL . . . 21st century young North Americans, emboldened by the power of the Internet and social media, now have direct access to the most influential people on the continent. And this changes, among other things, how they want to be managed. . . [...]

time for change?

This just in from Health.com: 10 Careers With High Rates of Depression If one of these is yours, it may be time for change for your sake! Some are obvious. Some were a surprise. Nursing homes/child care workers Social workers Food service staff Health-care workers Artists, entertainers, writers:  Too much alone-time for most of them [...]