Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, Johnny Cash

Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, Johnny Cash I saw this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago: Funny. Do we have NO JOBS? Not the kind of jobs we had a while back, thats for sure. Do we have NO HOPE? You have to have hope.  Thats the premise of 101 Alternatives to a Real Job: to give you HOPE. Do we have NO CASH? Cash is king.. at least thats what we say in business.  In our personal lives, lets make sure that we manage our cash (and debt, etc.) well, so that when we are in a tough place, we have manageable money issues. Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, Johnny Cash I saw this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago: Funny. Do we have NO JOBS? Not the kind of jobs we had a while back, thats for sure. Do we have NO HOPE? You have to have hope.  Thats the premise of 101 Alternatives to a Real Job: to give you HOPE. Do we have NO CASH? Cash is king.. at least thats what we say in business.  In our personal lives, lets make sure that we manage our cash (and debt, etc.) well, so that when we are in a tough place, we have manageable money issues.

Give Your Personal Brand More Visibility with a Strong Call to Action - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Give Your Personal Brand More Visibility with a Strong Call to Action - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career A loyal following is like gold when it comes to building a personal brand. While online marketing is very effective in this process it’s also important to include a strong call-to-action with that, otherwise known as influence or permission marketing. In order to effectively harness the power of this method, it is important to craft your message the right way. How can brands attract followers who will return again and again? Through the process of understanding who your target market is and where their pain points are. The combined efforts of a stand-out website, great content, and a solid social media marketing strategy will all be enhanced with a strong call-to-action. And it’s even more important to have this speak directly to your brand’s audience. A personal brand should become in-tune with the needs of its audience and customers in order to be successful with this method. Marketing and branding has a lot to do with influence along with guiding your followers to what matters most to them. What Makes a Powerful Call-to-Action Creating a strong call-to-action is not enough to generate a buzz for your brand. Here are some key steps to focus on in order to be most effective: • Create a colorful sales page After determining the main message your brand will need to create a sales page directly on your website or through a service like LeadPages. The copy should be simple, to the point, and use strong, web-friendly colors. • Make it attractive As your personal brand creates a call-to-action across as many of your web pages as possible in a conversational way your prospects will be more likely to respond. Help them along in what action to take next, which works best with a nice incentive. • Tap into analytics tools The moment you have a new subscriber from a strong call-to-action the next step is to analyze the activity, and optimize from there. Google Analytics is one of the best resources out there for brands to accomplish this, and can also help provide insights into the competition. The purpose of a call-to-action for your personal brand is to direct your prospects where you would like them to go. Over time your loyal followers will begin to interact more on your content, and will be more willing to make a purchase.

7 Jobs that Require Nothing Less than Perfect Vision

7 Jobs that Require Nothing Less than Perfect Vision The freedom of having a good vision to enjoy life at its fullest without contacts or eye-glasses is something everyone wants. Vision is the most important of the human senses. Without it, it is extremely difficult to perform any  day-to-day activity. Bad vision can add complexities to anyones life. People with bad vision typically use corrective eye-wears to get through their daily activity, but there are few work fields where a perfect 20/20 vision is not just an option but it is a requirement. Astronaut: Astronauts are strictly prohibited from wearing corrective eyewear as they survive in a zero-gravity state or a fluctuating atmospheric pressure which could cause issues with eye-glasses as well as contact lenses. Pilots: Pilots are allowed to wear contact lenses but it is mandatory that their vision falls under the required parameters set by the regulatory board. Eyeglasses are a strict no-no as it becomes risky if they get damaged or lost. Pilots are responsible for the lives of thousands.   Any applicant for the job of a pilot is extensively tested for a 20/20 vision before getting hired. Air-Hostesses: Many Airlines do not prefer air-hostess candidates without good vision as this field is all about looking great and greeting people. Also, an air-hostess needs to be extremely vigilant throughout the flight which needs a great vision. Public Service Professions Public service profession includes law enforcing policemen and firefighters whose job requires being constantly vigilant. A police officer requires good eyesight as he may need to use firearms. Similarly,  firefighters need perfect vision in order to make accurate judgment calls to rescue lives. Also, being in close vicinity to fire and smoke is unavoidable for them. Both contacts and eye-glasses fail in such a situation. A good vision is an absolute must and an average or a poor eyesight just won’t do. Defense Force Personnel Defense force is one field where a small miss can cause huge damage to the nation. 20/20 eyesight is an absolute necessity in the defense field in most nations be it the Navy, Army or Air-force. Some of the strictest standards of vision are required if you decide upon joining the defense force. Sports Person and Athlete Athletes rely heavily on vision to excel in their sports. An average or a poor vision can affect their performance. Sports usually require concentrating on a fast-moving object for which having a dynamic vision is very important. Corrective eye-wear can be used to play basic sports but not suitable for a professional athlete. Improve your Career Options with LASIK: If one of the above-mentioned jobs is your preferred career choice and you use eye-glasses or contact lenses, it is highly recommended for you to undergo an eye corrective LASIK laser eye surgery to get rid of your eye-glasses and regain perfect eyesight. This surgery is painless and immediate. The recovery time is next to nothing and the results are highly accurate. Almost anyone can get a LASIK procedure done (except for pregnant or breastfeeding women). You can learn about this further here. If you want to get LASIK done, consult an eye-specialist to find out if you’re a suitable candidate for laser eye surgery and you can permanently get rid of those heavy glasses or uncomfortable contact lenses once and for all.

How to plan a career in your 20s to stay home with kids in your 30s

How to plan a career in your 20s to stay home with kids in your 30s Forbes just published a survey that shows that 84% of working women want to stay home with kids  . The new job that everyone wants is stay-at-home mom. This makes sense to me. Its clear that women dont want to bust through the glass ceiling, or theyd have done it by now. And its clear that men are not pulled by kids in nearly the same way women are, because womens careers tank when they have kids and mens careers dont. So now that we are acknowledging that women aspire to stay home with kids, the question remains, What should women do in their twenties to get to that life they want in their thirties? Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, is famous for telling women dont quit before you quit. She says women should see if they want to stay home with kids before they start fading out of the their work life. This is great advice for the 16% of women who dont want to stay home with kids. But for everyone else, it seems very smart to start preparing to shift your work life to accommodate the shift in your identity to becoming a mom. Heres how to make that shift work for you: 1. Know your personality type. Take this personality test. Its free. And reading your score is like going to a fortune teller. Itll tell you a lot about what its going to be like for you after you have kids. If you are an INTJ or INTP you are most likely to not want kids. And if you have kids, it wont be terribly difficult for you to compartmentalize and go to work during the day. If you are an ENTJ, less than 1% of all women, you are so performance-driven that you will likely keep working even after you have kids. For everyone else, its likely that you will want to stay home with kids. Thats where we get the 84% of women wanting to stay home. Sidenote: The personality type that will have the most difficult time managing kids and a career is ENFJ because you are ambitious and also very committed, so you will struggle between commitment to work and commitment to kids and youll have a very hard time giving up either or feeling like you ever got it right. 2. Understand that your job performance is ephemeral. For those of you who will fall into the 84%, understand that the life you have as a high performer at work (or a low performer) is going to end when you have kids. Priorities will change, and it will not matter that you are a high performer because you will not choose to sustain that when you have kids. Work is a place where you get external rewards for being smart and productive and a good team member. You do not get that at home. So you need to figure out how to get what you need in your twenties if you want to stay home in your 30s. Dont get addicted to people telling you how great you are. You have to give that up to stay home with kids. Kids do not give performance reviews. They give tantrums. The hardest part about leaving the workforce is not the money. Thats hard the first few months. Over the long haul, the hardest part is that you miss workplace accolades. Your identity as a strong performer at work will fade, because we dont have a way to rank parenting skills. So be careful to not make top performer an identity thats hard to give up. The harder it is to give up, the more you will be torn when you feel the urge to stay home with your kids. Sidenote: Go to yoga. Learn to be with yourself because you like yourself instead of to impress people. Really. Ive done Ashtanga for 15 years, and the biggest lesson Ive learned is how to get good at something because it feels good rather than because others believe youre good. 3. Live below your means. You know at age 23 if its likely that youll want to stay home with kids. Which means the minute  you get married you should adjust your spending for one income. This will always keep the door open for you to stay home with kids. The biggest reason that women who want to stay home with kids dont is because the family has become dependent on the second income. Dont let that happen. So living below your means isnt about frugality and savings. Its about making sure youll feel like you can stay home with your kids. Ways to get along on one income are living in a small house, living in a low-cost-of-living city, having friends who also live on one income. Because your sense of financial well-being is mostly dependent on you feeling as well off as your friends are. 4. Pick your spouse carefully. If you want to stay home with kids, dont marry a guy who cant earn a living. If you want to stay home with kids, make it clear that even though you earn more than the guy, the guy will be the breadwinner. If you want to stay home with kids then you put all your financial hopes in the guys career. Whatever his earning ability is, then that is your earning ability, because you are a team, and he is the breadwinner. Heres something about stay-at-home moms: they all want full-time nannies. Its indulgent, yes. But its nice. Really nice. I tell you this to let you know that if you marry rich, staying at home will be easier than if you dont marry rich. But you already knew that. Sidenote for women who dont want kids. If you have even read this far: Even high-earning women want to be with men who earn more than they do. 5. Start freelancing before you have kids. The best way to stay home with kids and not lose your mind from boredom is to pay someone to take care of your kids while you do freelance work. If you read the Forbes survey of women carefully, you can see that women want some sort of interesting work while they are home with their kids. This is also consistent with Pew Research surveys which find  that most women with kids would like to stay home with kids and have some sort of part-time work on the side. When you think plan remember that you should not plan to do anything more than break-even on this work. This is not moneymaking work. This is work that addresses the fact that you miss the workforce. Youll miss accolades for a job well done. Youll miss being paid to be smart. Youll miss being thought good at what you do. Establishing a freelance career to address those needs is reasonable and do-able. But you have to start early, before the kids start coming. Because once theyre here, you wont have time or energy to build up a new business. That is a full-time job and you wont want a full-time job. Freelancing with the clients you established is a very part time job. And that will make you happy. For every personality type there is a part-time track that will feel fulfilling to you. You just have to find it. Remember to be true to your type if youre an S you need to be following rules, if youre an N you need to follow your ideas. Learn your type and pick part-time work that caters to that, rather than striving to earn a lot of money. 6. Accept that you will fall behind. Women are performing at a higher level at work than men are right now. So, statistically speaking, when you decide to stay home with kids, the people you were better than will start moving ahead of you. It will kill you. Prepare for this. It works best to think of your career as a time in your life. You were a high performer when you did it, but now its over. Its like being the head cheerleader. You were great when you did it, but high school is over and youre onto the next challenge. The good news is that for women who hate work, and never find their place to fit in, everyone starts over when they have kids. No one has been a mom before, everyone has a new identity and you have a fresh chance to fit in and do well among the 87% who think staying home with kids is the ultimate job to have.

Women are Missing Out on Technical-Based Careers

Women are Missing Out on Technical-Based Careers Education is vital to society, which is one reason many people are debating the possibility of making higher education a right in this country. Of course, this is not the case yet, but there are several types of education opportunities springing up, especially in vocation education and apprenticeship programs. These types of programs are great, but the problem is that women seem to be missing out on these opportunities, which revolve around technical skills. Reduction of Technical SkillsBlue collar communities used to be filled with schools that offered classes in technical skills. This slowly faded away due to the introduction of private schools that offered similar skill-building classes.evalFurthermore, parents and school officials wanted schools to focus on academic studies. These are just some of the factors that began to slow down technical training in some high schools. It should be noted that many high schoolers, including women, were not interested in these types of skills.S ome students attempt to go beyond technical skills while other students just did not want to continue their education past high school. There is no denying that there is a cultural problem that seems to be making many young people devalue education.A Thwarted OpportunityAnother issue that women seem to face is in the workforce itself. There are a few schools offering some classes in technical skill, and those skills can be refined in vocational skills, but it seems that women have more trouble finding a job when compared to their male counterparts.This glaring issue affects women and their desire to invest their time in a career opportunity that could be fruitful. The connection between education and jobs is not as strong as it should be for women, which is something that needs to change since it is forcing some women to miss out on technical-based careers.Growing AidEveryone knows that there is a major gap between technical skills and the kind of skills that today’s modern world requires. This is the reason the government has updated laws to ensure that all vocational schools offer the skills that are actually needed to succeed.The bill that was introduced by the government goes pretty far in attempting to help Americans. US Representatives understand that America’s economy is based on people’s ability to work. This bill is definitely helpful, and it protects almost every group, but it does seem to lack some protections for women. It seems that lawmakers are finally understanding that the only way the economy grows is if those in lower economic brackets have enough jobs and are qualified enough for them. The problem is that those same US Representatives have not understood that at least half of the workforce of this country rests upon women, and they should be equally trained. A Woman’s Struggle evalThere is no doubt that women are facing a few obstacles that men do not face. This does not mean women should give up or not push through the barriers. Th e need to fill these types of jobs is becoming increasingly vital for US economy, making technical skills the go-to skills for a woman’s independence. There are a number of resources out there that are meant to help women, too. Course Hero, for example, can help women find the right education material or job opportunities to help them get that edge so that they are ready to compete in the real world. All this help is available online, meaning that a woman can still pursue other opportunities or educational interests while making sure to cover technical skills. Of course, there is hope that people will continue to point out the problem so that more people get involved in the fight for equality, but this equality is still not here, and you still have to make sure you can live. The reason that women are missing out of important technical-based careers has a lot to do with US culture and institution issues within the education system. Both of these issues need to be addressed, and hop efully, strong-willed people can rise above the challenges to improve America from the ground up.

Is Your Industry Growing or Dying - CareerAlley

Is Your Industry Growing or Dying - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. Image source: www.masters-in-human-resources.org This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Joey Trebif

What to Expect With a Firefighter Resume Writing Service

What to Expect With a Firefighter Resume Writing ServiceA firefighter resume writing service should always be provided for you when you apply for your first job after retiring. This can be a big help because of the flexibility that it gives you. Your employers are getting you prepared for a wide range of job opportunities.One of the most important things about this service is that you do not have to spend your valuable time writing it. Since it is already prepared, there is no need to worry about what it says.The job-specific fireman resume writing service is an amazing asset that can be used for the full course of your career. It will tell your new employer what you have accomplished in your career. This information can include the number of years of service, honors, awards, certifications, or just the highlight moments of your career.The career information, including the employment history, must be written specifically for the company you are applying for. The number of years of se rvice should be based on the requirements of the company. Also, the employer wants to make sure that you are familiar with their policies and procedures. A good career has a background of it's own and should not be easily ignored.The fireman resume writing service will not only supply you with a clear list of awards and honors you have received but will also give you some advice on how to use them to your advantage. You should expect to learn what to include as part of this service.If you have special skills that are needed for the job, the career services provide you with the training you need. Many schools have special programs to help their students become firefighters. They offer a service that can get you on the path to becoming a firefighter.The career and employment sections of the fireman resume writing service will be a great help in helping you find your way into the next phase of your career. The information can include special skills, areas of interest, and areas of conc ern. The section will be of great assistance to you in the form of assistance.Using this type of service can help you get through your career and education without having to spend a lot of time trying to find your way into the information that you need. This type of service should be provided to you before you even begin looking for a new job.