Career Ideas for People Who Love DIY
Working with your hands can be a relaxing task and is easy to incorporate into your day-to-day life. A lot of people who like to work with their hands enjoy doing a variety of DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects.
DIY projects involve...
Sometimes You Need to Swallow Your Pride and Take the Job
We’ve all been there. When you’re up on the mountaintop and everything seems to be going your way, it’s hard to imagine things being anything but good. Then your world starts to crumble. Maybe you lose your job, or...
Working During School Hours: How to Find It and Make It Meaningful
I left my corporate job after my first child was born. My company was so great and wanted me to feel special, so they threw me a retirement party. At 30, I had no idea what was in store for the future, but retirement felt...
What Job Opportunities Are Available with an Engineering Degree?
The number of students opting to study engineering courses is back on the up as young people are answering the call for more people to take the Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects. Part of the attraction of...
Workplace Hacks that will Change your 9-5 Forever
Unless you win the lottery, you will spend a total of 12 years at work in your lifetime - according to a Daily Mail study conducted earlier this year - not to mention the time you spend getting to...
Are You Interested in a Career in Gambling? 5 Tips for Getting Involved
Gambling isn’t something that most people would ever consider a ‘career choice’. But the fact of the matter is that some people genuinely do earn a living that way! Here are five ways of getting involved if it sounds...
The Joys of Clueless Co-workers
Ah, nothing beats a rough day at work – all the wonderful deadlines, expectations, and demands of your co-workers and superiors, and the joys and thrills of enforced human interaction. And what makes a rough day at work even...
A Morning Routine for People Who Crave Relaxing, Productive Days
What’s the first thing you do when you open your eyes in the morning?
Push the snooze button? Hug a loved one? Pushups?
Everyone goes about their business differently in the morning, but it’s rare to come across someone who’s perfectly...
Working for a Miserable Boss – How do You Deal with Them?
You would think (and hope) that in the professional world, the people that you work with would be, well…professional. But unfortunately, the tyrannical bullies that occupy elementary school playgrounds run amuck in the work place as well. What makes...
Staying Home with the Kids vs. Going to Work
At some point every parent is faced with a decision to make. Do they continue working, slaving away hours for monetary compensation or do they try to trim the fat off the family budget and make being a stay...
Understanding the Difference Between Needs and Wants
If you look at the current economic condition of the world, it is obvious that very few people have an understanding of the difference between needs and wants. It seems that most of us skipped on the basics of Economics 101 which says a thriving economy is based on...
Refinancing a House – How to Save Money on Interest
Refinancing a House is about as mind boggling as buying the home in the first place. There are a lot of questions that run through the mind of an individual about to embark on one of the more important financial decisions of a lifetime. In many cases, refinancing a...
If you think Your Day Job is Tough, Try Staying Home with the Kids
So, you made it though yet another day in the life of a stay at home parent. For some reason, you are tired. Exhausted really, despite the fact that the house still looks like a war zone. The sink is full of dishes yet again, there are still clothes...
