Home Based Business For Busy Parents

Working from home isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be – especially when there are children in the mix! Scraping spaghetti-o’s, off the ceiling when you’re up against a deadline might make you laugh, but it really does happen when you work at home with your kids. If you want the best of both [...]

Career Tips from Co-Workers Show Room for Improvement

Career tips are most valuable when they are specific and come from people who are familiar with your industry or working environment.
Career Feedback
Readers were inquiring about the results of the 360 degree feedback survey I ran when I left my job so I thought I’d share some of the responses.  A little background, I was [...]

How Quitting Your Job Can Make You a Better Employee

When you leave a job behind, if you don’t solicit feedback from your co-workers, you’re missing out on a golden self-improvement opportunity.
Last Day of Work
Today was my last day at work, after working for this company for almost nine years I’m making a change and trying something new.  As I filled out my exit [...]

Working From Home – Making Money While Working In A Job That Fits Your Life

Working from home. For many people it’s just a pipe dream, a fantasy that they don’t know how to make happen. It doesn’t have to be that way though. There really are a ton of ways to legitimately work from home.
Let’s talk about a few of those options, and some ways that you can [...]

How to Make Your Job Better or Find a Better Job

If you love your job, consider yourself lucky, there are many people that hate their boss, their job, and what they do. If you are unhappy with your job, you owe it to yourself to figure out what it is about the work that you don’t enjoy and change it.  Life’s too short to spend it [...]

Federal Unemployment Assistance – Frequently Asked Questions

Being “laid off” is one of the most dreaded phrases in the English language.  No one wants to hear it, but as we all know, life happens. 
Losing Your Job
Thankfully, we live in a country with a relatively low unemployment rate, about 5 percent, but the low rate is little consolation to the people who are [...]

Disability Insurance – Protecting Your Income If You’re Unable to Work

What would happen to a surgeon that lost his hand in a home project accident? What would happen to a construction worker who lost the use of his or her legs? What would happen to a single mother who became ill for an extended period of time and couldn’t work as much as she needed [...]

Health Insurance Plans Offered by Employers – Network Based Managed Care Programs

Thanks to a reader named Matt, a health actuary, who shared his feedback on the health insurance for a new job post and takes a look at the network-based managed care programs.
PPO: What you described here is actually more like a traditional indemnity plan (which are rare these days). A Preferred Provider Organization actually does have [...]

Health Insurance: Planning For Coverage During a Career Change or Job Search

Health insurance is the single most important benefit that you must take care of during a job search or career change.
Risk of Being Uninsured
I have a friend who underwent major surgery about two years ago, and it was during a time that he was transitioning from one job to another. He didn’t elect [...]

Investing in Company Stock – How Many Shares Should You Own?

Buying company stock is often touted as one of the benefits of working for a profitable corporation that lets employees own shares of the company.  While it can be a benefit when profits are increasing, it can also have a negative effect on your investment portfolio and financial situation when times aren’t so good.
Owning Company [...]

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