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When I was growing up in Grosse Pointe, a suburb outside of Detroit, I lived on a street where all of the other families were married, and my mother was the only single mother on the street. At some point it became clear to me that the other families...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 5 CommentsI have been working since the time I was around 9 years old. When I was 9 years old, I wrote my age down illegibly on an employment application so that I could get a job delivering newspapers for the Detroit News. At the time, you needed to be 11 in order...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 1 CommentSeveral years ago I realized that there was something horribly wrong with my life during the Super Bowl. I was watching the game on television with my fiancé at the time and noticed that there was a van parked far off in the distance. I could not concentrate...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons Leave a CommentPlanning, Grass Seed, Saunas, and Your Career
We are always fixing things. Always. We are always doing everything within our power to fix this or that, and we are continually trying to improve things because nothing is ever perfect for us. However, one of the biggest explanations for this is that...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsHow to Find Public Interest Jobs and Nonprofit Jobs
If you have a passion for a certain issue, such as civil rights, the environment, helping the poor, or animals, public interest can be an excellent career choice. In public interest you will be working with others who share a passion for an issue like...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 2 CommentsDo Not Trust Appearances: My Visit to Deep Springs College
The first time I visited Las Vegas was in 1988. The city was far different back then, with an old Western vibe–not at all like the modern strip with all of the new casinos and so forth. Las Vegas, in the late 1980s, was more tired and run down;...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 16 CommentsYou Need to Be Connected with Others at Work
Early in my career I used to work directly with attorneys who had lost their jobs or were having extreme difficulty finding their first job. If certain people were persistent enough, and I saw they had real potential, I would generally invite them into...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentHe Who Sees True Opportunities Shall Always Prosper
People lose their jobs. Often people are released, even from the best jobs they might have ever had. People may find themselves in a position where they cannot find a job that is as good as the one they lost. What is important, however, is what people...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 4 CommentsA Message to Garcia and Your Career
One of the most inspiring true stories I have ever read is A Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard. It is a short essay that discusses the initiative of a soldier who is assigned a difficult mission of delivering a message and comes through, completing...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 5 CommentsThe Secret Career Tactic of “Lock In”
In my experience, some of the smartest and most dangerous people in the world are insurance salesmen, copier salespeople, and auto salespeople. They have a secret called “the lock in” that you can use to seriously enhance your career. Insurance Salespeople...
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