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The Job/Employment Blog Week in Review for Feb 10 – 16

Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for February 10 – 16. This is our way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! Last week, the 3rd to the 9th of February, we started the series on how to become a blogger for Families. We finished that series this week and also covered how to keep the job that you got with Families.com! I hope this series was helpful to all blogger hopefuls. If you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in … Continue reading →

Nepotism in the Workplace

This blog is basically a rant about nepotism. Just thought I ought to warn ya ahead of time…. 😛 Nepotism (or the hiring of family members) is fairly common practice in small businesses (and large!) across America. I currently work for a small company–under 100 employees–and the owner of that company employs a family member to do a very important part of the business: The billing, a.k.a. how we make our money. This family member also does the payroll. Did I mention this was a very important position in the company? I have worked for this company for a while … Continue reading →

Finding Joy

I’m going to take a stab at a topic that is sort of close to my heart. This is close to my heart because at a certain point in my educational life I decided to pursue something that wasn’t about money. This was at one point a big struggle in my life. In my case this was theatre, but insert your own passion if you wish. I see many students agonizing over future careers and the choices they make now as being either maybe helpful or probably detrimental to their well being in the future (normally translated as their “financial” … Continue reading →