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The employment forecast

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The employment center hosted a job fair this weekend at the local college campus in the student center.  In addition to different booths set up for people to check out different employment opportunities, there were a lot of mini-seminars going on that you could sign up for and attend. One of the seminars that I attended was about educating oneself for the future employment market.

The speaker was talking about how the service industry will be growing, and as part of that industry the healthcare field in particular will be continuing to grow.  He was encouraging people to look into jobs in healthcare. Well, that means taking a number of courses, naturally, and he was suggesting that people go to a local college and see what their educational offerings include. He suggested that if one does not want to be directly involved in patient care, one could take a consultant interview course, or a medical teaching course. That reminded me that my next door neighbor recently retired from her job, and her job was to teach the teachers how to use computers in the classroom. Perhaps taking a teach the teacher course would prove beneficial. Then I started to remember how my ex-hubby’s mother used to help my sister-in-law research and write all of her papers for the medical management course that she was taking and how much that upset me to think that someone in the medical field would cheat in that manner. Isn’t it odd how random thoughts can go off on strange tangents sometimes!

 

Spell check and grammar check

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My brother has been encouraging me to try to make money by signing up to some of those pay-per-click advertising companies. He told me that he makes about $70 a month passive income on his blog. Well, that sounded rather interesting so I asked him to send me the link to the Home page of the company that he signed up with. I found the site to be most intriguing, but I was concerned about some of the errors that I found on the Publisher page. They were minor spelling and grammatical errors, but I noticed them and I had to wonder what impact those errors would have on the clientele of the company.

I didn’t find any errors on the Advertiser page, though. Just finding the few that I DID find on the other page was a really great reminder to me to run everything that I type through a spell checker and a grammar checker. I’m glad that WordPress has spell check; I wish it also had grammar check. Most of the errors that I find on most pages are simple things that a grammar checker would find, like when to use the word accept and except – they both sound the same but mean different things and are spelled differently. A spell checker wouldn’t find either one of those to be a mistake, but a grammar check should.

Quitcher complaining

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One of the things that really aggravates me about some of the people that I’ve friended on Facebook is how many of them complain that they are looking for work and can’t find a job. When I reply to them that there is a job opening near them someplace, or tell them about a work-at-home opportunity that they could follow up on, they reply that they aren’t “interested” in doing that type of work. Well, friends, if you really are sincere about needing a job, then you would go out and apply for that job. Work is not supposed to be FUN, if it was FUN it would be called PLAY. In these unstable economic times, if you don’t have enough money to pay your bills, then it is time to roll up your sleeves and put on your big boy/girl pants and take any job that will pay you some money. And then you work that job while looking for your dream job to come along. In the meantime, at least you have a paycheck coming in!

Retailers optimistic?

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I was hearing that the Black Friday sales this year were up from last year, and that the retailers are optimistic about that. I sure hope that is a positive sign that the economy is improving! So far I’m not seeing any evidence of that for myself, money is still in very short supply for everyone that I rub elbows with.  With so many people struggling to make ends meet, I don’t know how the economy is going to be able to rebound until wages increase and prices decrease.

So exciting

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Have you ever watched that new television series “Pan Am?” I’ve only watched it twice so far, but I did enjoy watching it. Most of the time I’m too busy to sit and watch television, and often when I have the chance to sit down and turn the television on it seems that I’ve just missed most of my shows that I enjoy watching! There was a point in time when I recorded my favorite shows, but then I found I never had time to watch the recordings, so I eventually gave up on that idea!

Well, the show brings back old memories of when I was quite young and the new International airport about an hour’s drive from our house opened up. My older sister found out about a promotion that united airlines was doing where for only a few dollars we we allowed about a twenty minute sample flight. That was a very exciting time in my life! That was the first of many flights to come in my lifetime. I remember daydreaming about getting a job as a stewardess, but if I recall correctly my ambitions towards that were deeply discouraged by my parents (sigh.) I still think that would have been a wonderful and exciting job to have!

But instead of having an exciting jet-setting career I had to settle for the dreary and dull life of an office worker, who has to confine her flying dreams to taking as many cheap flights as she can to various vacation spots. Oh well, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, isn’t it!