Times are tough. Imagine you have a job: that is 100% commission you only work every four days, but the after the first two days you may have to go home with no money. only the very best are allowed to work the very same area you do if you...

I've recently retired from my job as a restaurant manager and have decided to do some travelling....

As you may have noticed in my status from time to time, I have been renovating my house for the past several months. I have advice for everyone who is looking to renovate...if you are doing more than one room, DO NOT live in the house during the process!...

http://cfphp.org/ Saturday Meeting: Tackling Large Scale Projects Come join us on Saturday, December 15, 2007 to see our very own Pat Narciso discuss Tackling Large Scale Projects. Although most web projects tend to be small to medium-sized,...

I have been working in Senior Care since the 1980's. It isn't easy finding the right skill set and temperament in employees for a career in taking care of our aging population. I know a lot of workers need a job, but usually their skill set from another...

If you have a vintage radio or know anyone who does you're going to want to remember Dennis G. Williams. He is one of a very few people you can turn to for expert, full-time antique radio repair and restoration. He has four decades of experience at his...

My husband and I met on Eharmony. We fell in love, and we had a wedding on May 13, 2009. Everything about our marriage is everything I dreamed it would be - except that we don't live together. He lives 190 miles away. We want to live together -...

From the wording of the question, I just knew she was going to be disappointed. "Are you still pushing that book with the high heels?" The person on the other end of the phone is a beloved relative who shall remain nameless, and I had just reminded...

Our bodies are designed to be active, but in this day and age of desk jobs and sitting in front of the computer we may very well be causing our own sleep issues. When we sit we do not allow our body to move fluids from our legs around out body. This...

I’ve been working for three whole weeks in a real job at a real corporation. For the first time in my life, I am wearing a badge and struggling to arrive on time, an ability that eludes anyone raised on an island. I have been spending my days parked in...

You all may remember that I have been searching for a job to supplement The Midlife Gals’ madness and-so-far-minisculey-funded creative pursuits (forgive my spelling of minisculey, but I believe I have just made a new word). Anyway, I’ve pounded the...

So off I went to Austria and Italy, and had a fabulous time. While in Austria we attended lectures at the University of Innsbruck and I found I loved being back in the classroom. That combined with all the workshops and programs I had been taking back...

Friday, June 6, 2008 Embellish I'm reading a wonderfully funny, bawdy book called, "My Horizontal Life" by Chelsea Handler...good light summer read about her one night stands, and because she knew they would only last one night, she...

Many people are facing tough times right now. Either it directly affects their immediate family or they know someone close like a brother, sister or friend who has lost a job, filed for bankruptcy or lost their home to foreclosure. People who are...

When I moved to Orlando in 1981, I got a job as a hardline artist for an ad agency. We represented the Belk Lindsey department store chain and by hardline, I mean I drew items sold in the stores like shoes, stereos and household items. Back then,...

I go to prove that you are never too old to keep trying. Although I have been writing songs and making music for over 50 years, it has only been in the last year that I have been able to have my dream come true - to record a CD and share my songs....

It’s a known phenomenon, and a strange one, that there is a percentage of men who die within the first 18 months after retirement, and it doesn’t have to happen. Too many people are still unaware of it, as I was, at the time of my husband’s...

Being an entrepreneur...or a “Jill of all trades and a mistress of none,” which is how I’ve always described myself...I’ve found myself involved in some pretty bizarre employment ‘opportunities.’My first job was on top of one of the Grand...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation...

You have been dreaming and planning for your retirement years all your life, and now that you are close to realizing that dream and fulfilling those plans, you are starting to wonder if now is the time to make that final decision. But how do you...

I've been a Red Cross volunteer for a little less than a year and had done several jobs prior to this deployment, but that's another story. This is just a bit of my experience as a volunteer in TN after the tornados of Feb 5, 2008, DR# 136-08 (that's the...

How many times have you heard a woman say she put her own dreams on hold so she could take care of her family? Too often we put off working toward our dreams because “family comes first” or we feel that it would take too long, or that we...

Over the past three months my son Daniel and I have been trying to get him funding for school in Phoenix. Without mentioning names we ran into a lot of problems. My son had gone online and submitted his application for federal loans through FAFSA and that...

Be careful where you take your vacation. You never know what (or who) you might come home...

There are three things in life that I've been pondering since I was old enough to think for myself. My beliefs about these ideas are in part what shapes the way I lead my life today. Although they are very different concepts to most people, I see them as...