Archive for July, 2010

JOB TALK AMERICA

JobTalkAmerica is a new Internet radio program designed to help you reinvent, reposition and reinvigorate your job search and work life.

Our goals are simple:

  1. Help you get back to work
  2. Let you know you’re not alone
  3. Help you deal with the ups and downs of your job search
  4. Show you there’s more job hunting help than you think
  5. Help you find balance in your life

Hosts Ted Canova and Sam Zeff have spent their careers dedicated to connecting with communities across the United States.

TED CANOVA

SAM ZEFF

This is a great new job site by two award-winning journalists! Positive, informative and fun. Daily live broadcasts at 11 EST; available 24/7.

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Graduation Speech in a Nutshell

Several days a week I walk with my good buddy MC. Neither of us is shy with opinion. Frequent ruminations list lessons learned the hard way about work, life and success. For instance, MC and I met in law school as second-career attorneys. Let’s just say the marketing video fell short. After three years of oppression and a six-figure bill, we walked into an economy that offered contract work for which hundreds of newly-minted attorneys compete; the most recent pays $9/hour…for a licensed attorney…I still have the ad. This reality would have been nice to know up front.

MC and I have joined the ranks of entrepreneurs. Life experience makes that possible. But yesterday we wondered about the “kids”? If asked to give the graduation speech at our undergraduate alma maters (and to be clear, we won’t be) what would we say…beside “don’t go to law school”? » Continue reading “Graduation Speech in a Nutshell”

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