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When I was around sixteen years old, growing up in Detroit, my mother’s boyfriend for several years was a tugboat (also known as a towboat) captain. Since the job was unionized, my mother was always trying to interest me in this as a good long-term...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsDo Your Job Search on Heavy Ground
For the past several years I have been interacting with people who are looking for jobs on a daily basis. I have also been working with recruiters, who find people jobs. After many years of working with various people, it often occurs to me that those...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 12 CommentsThe most happy and successful people in the world are masters of sharing. The most unhappy and consistently challenged people, both emotionally and financially, are poor at sharing. When you find people who are alone and miserable, in most cases they...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 12 CommentsThe Importance of Disconnecting from Your Work
Some of the happiest, most well-adjusted, and most effective people I know are also people who have a profound ability to disconnect from their work. They can disconnect rapidly and put themselves in another state of mind that does not involve work. Some...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 3 CommentsMike Tyson, Distractions, Your Career and Life
I saw the most interesting documentary on Mike Tyson recently, James Toback’s Tyson. A review of the film in Time magazine relates: At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-pound weakling: an overweight street kid from the Bedford-Stuyvesant...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentWhy You Should Work Weekends and Holidays
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if you send this message to your superiors, you will be in trouble...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 7 CommentsInduction, Deduction, and Your Career
When you look at the way something has been in the past to draw conclusions about the way something always will be, or always is, you are using inductive reasoning. A standard example of induction would be: All grass examined thus far is green. This...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentThe Greater Your Purpose, the Greater the Obstacles You Will Face
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who had an older sister who was nothing short of incredible. She was a world-class swimmer and had set countless records in the state. She had times in swimming that would easily have qualified her for the Olympics,...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 14 CommentsDo Not Be Influenced by Others’ Negative Opinions of You
I have kept a journal for years. Today I opened the journal and found a quote that I had written down on July 4, 2002. I had written this quote down because at the time I had just gotten out of a relationship in which the person I was with had decided...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 8 CommentsHow to Answer the “Do You Have Any Questions for Me?” Interview Question
Generally, at the end of an interview, the interviewer will ask something along the lines of, “Do you have any questions for us?” It is very important that you always ask questions in an interview when given the opportunity. Incredibly, the most...
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