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Would You Rather Have an Office Job or Home Job?

October 18th, 2008 at 06:33pm Under Employment

If you decide on a work from home job and become your own boss, you will have a different set of challenges ahead of you than if you work at a regular job in an office. For instance, when you work at home by yourself, you no longer have exposure to friends and co-workers and you will most likely be spending much of your day alone. This is fine for some people but others need the interaction with co-workers to make their day feel more fulfilling. Mothers who have children might be the best candidates for work from home jobs because it will give them the opportunity to stay close to their children and make some money too. Stay at home moms may also be a little more used to spending less time with friends their age and just spending time with their children.

Another thing to consider when contemplating working at home is that you may be considered self employed and that poses another set of problems to deal with. My post about being self emplyoyed outlines some of the difficulties some people never consider before they take the plunge. Most important of all is the ability to be organized and inwardly self driven. If you are your own boss, you have to get the job done on your own and be able to make yourself work even when you might not feel like it. In an office environment this may be easier for some people because they have a boss to answer to and everyone around them is working too. If you are working at home everyday, it is only you and you need to be able to motivate yourself to work.

If you are more inclined to work in an office, you need to be able to get the best job you can for yourself and keep moving up. Many people continue to further their careers by changing jobs and so you need to become familiar with all the different job search sites so that you can get your resume out there working for you. These job web sites are great because you can submit your resume to many of them and when an employer is interested they will call you. You can spend time looking on your own but you can also sit back and wait until a prospective employer finds you. Additionally, most of these job websites are free as the companies pay to place the ads.

Whether you decide to work at home or work in an office, it is great that there are so many more options for people than there were just 10 or 15 years ago. The Internet has been a wonderful advancement for so many people and given them the opportunity to make their own job choice. Stay at home jobs are a real possibility now for those who want to take advantage of this option

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How To Change Jobs To Get A Pay Raise

September 22nd, 2008 at 11:43pm Under Employment

Years ago, it was common for people to have a one or maybe two jobs throughout their working career. Many people in fact stayed with one company their whole life. For instance, both my father and my wife’s father stayed at the same company for more than 30 years. The company they worked for was their family and they were part of the company family.

The same thing can be said with baseball. Before free agency, players were much more apt to stay with one team for their whole career. Names like Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, and Carl Yastrzemski come to mind. Now days, players move around constantly and it is hard to keep track of who’s who and who is where.

The job market is full of free agents now as well. Everyone is on their own and moving from job to job is not only common, but also encouraged. Many people switch jobs as a means to move up the pay ladder quicker than they might if they stayed with one company. In fact, it might be said that the higher echelon workers move jobs on purpose to keep themselves fresh and to show the job world they are valuable. It is now even common for people to have work at home jobs, something that was never seen years ago.

With the Internet came the advent of the job search sites, which are now so important to finding good jobs. No longer do you type out your resume and hand it out door-to-door or company-to-company. With the job web sites, prospective employees submit their resumes online and search through thousands of jobs themselves. The employers also go online first when they want to hire. Classified ads in the newspaper have dwindled as the technically adept work force switches to their computers to find and get jobs.

The Internet has drastically changed the way people maneuver in the job market in the 21st century. If you are looking for a job, the first place you need to go is to the many job web sites and start looking. You need to be able to put your resume into different formats and submit it to multiple job websites online. That is where the employers will find you and where you will find them. You need to make sure your resume is up to the online standards that employers today expect and you need to become comfortable with corresponding through email and instant message. The more you understand and are prepared for this new way of job searching, the better your chances will be to land that job that you truly desire.

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