Additional Unemployment Benefits Include Your Health

Some people have actually enjoyed the experience of being laid off because they get out from under the stress of the job and the pressure of completing projects and tasks on sometimes unreasonable time lines. When I was laid off, it was difficult for me as it was for others, to think that your [...]

Working away from home

Working away from home has its challenges
If you find yourself in the ranks of the laid off or unemployed, you may not be able to find work in the locale that you live.  This is especially true if you are skilled, and the company which laid you off let go a good number of people [...]

What Do You Tell the Kids?

Recently many people have been laid off from their job, and the devastation for some is tremendous, especially for those who never saw it coming.  A lot of us have grown up with college in mind, then off to the dream job which will carry them into retirement.  But the job market in recent years [...]

Economic Downturn Equals Opportunity

I was recently introduced to an award winning documentary called RE: Invention, produced and directed by Michelle Maine and Catherine Goerz. This well done documentary digs into the subject of economic downturn and how to turn it into something positive. I found it very interesting.
Photo courtesy Flickr Photographer Scott Wills
Enough said – [...]

Who is watching to see when you’re not at home?

Who knows where you are?
Growing up for most of us included mom, dad, or some other influential person reminded us that “others don’t need to know what we are doing”. As we grew older we found out that it wasn’t always being secretive. It was also to keep other from helping themselves to your stuff. [...]

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