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Friday Night Links Pfeffernuesse Edition is all about a cookies and links! This time of year, pfeffernuesse is eaten in Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands. It is a small round biscuit, spicy in taste and many recipes call for ground nuts. Some even have a chocolate base. There are many … [Read more...]
Friday Night Links Boomer or Late Bloomer? Are you an older worker? Even if you aren’t, you may have to work longer for retirement. Congress wants to raise the Social Security retirement age to 80 years old. What are you going to do? It should make you think and do something such as start … [Read more...]
Every Friday is Mega Swag Bucks Day. What does that mean? It means they give away 400,000+ Swagbucks in Mega bills (from 30 to 1000 Swagbucks at one time) every Friday. What is Swagbucks? Click here for more information…it’s basically a search engine powered by Google and Ask where you … [Read more...]
Friday Night Links When Did Cheap become Chic? I remember when cheap was an insult! In the last few years, cheap has become a proud syndrome, condition or characteristic. A dictionary definition of cheap is: Cheap means costing very little, of little value or someone who is unwilling to spend … [Read more...]
Deconstructing your job search and starting over is actually a very common piece of advice I give a lot of job seekers. Think about it. We often get so set in our routines doing certain things a certain way, we never stop to ask the question, “Is what I’m doing actually the BEST way to do … [Read more...]
With many of the decisions I make or the directions I take in my life, I weigh it with the perspective of what I call ‘The Rocking Chair Factor’; in other words, when I’m an old man looking back on my life, am I going to be in a rocking chair with a smile on my face reminiscing … [Read more...]
Last month we reported on what we were fairly certain was a parody, and no one’s disproven our hypothesis so far. But the line between parody and reality is almost nonexistent in 2011 America. Case in point, the idle hundreds who have decided to do their part for humanity by making Occupy Wall … [Read more...]
Friday Night Links Thanksgiving Edition. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. By now you ate too much, spent too much time with family and spent too much on Black Friday! I really hope you didn’t go overboard. We spent Thanksgiving with family and friends. Our children came to visit and we … [Read more...]
Friday Night Links is officially premiered. I decided to start with the Old Guy Edition. Nearly two weeks ago, I turned sixty-five (65) years old. Reflecting on my career and life makes me realize it went by very quickly. I am not complaining! I am healthy, happy and looking forward to a lot of … [Read more...]
How to beat the job search sabotage: negative stinking thinking This past week I participated in four different speeches and seminars. During the question-and-answer portion of these events, I had separate questions that went something like this: Job Seeker: “I’m having a hard time … [Read more...]
