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The Job/Employment Blog Week in Review for Feb 3 – 9

Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for February 3 – 9. This is our way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! You’ll see that I spent this week showing you how to do exactly what I do: Blog! I hope these articles were informative and helpful. If you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me! Thanks for reading! Saturday, February 3 Open Office: Your New Best Friend covers an alternative to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, … Continue reading →

How to Make Your Sample Blogs Stand out from the Crowd

Yesterday, I talked about the first half of the required application: The topic you want to write about, and the ideas you have for covering that topic. Today, I want to cover the most important part of your application: The three sample blogs! Families.com hiring page specifies the following: 3. Samples – Please send three sample blog entries or articles with varying styles related to each of the proposed topics you are applying for. I think people have more hang-up about this part than any other part. Honestly, it’s just that simple: Three blogs that if you were working for … Continue reading →

The Application Itself

This is part of a mini-series covering what it takes to be a Families.com blogger, and what the benefits are to being a blogger. If you missed the articles posted previously, check them out here. For today, I wanted to write about the application itself. For some reason, people seem to really get hung up on this. I think it’s because there isn’t a formal application that you fill out but instead just info you should include in your e-mail. One thing to remember is that Lisa is looking for someone who can follow directions, and so if your e-mail … Continue reading →

Start Your Own Genealogy “Newspaper”

Have you heard of Paper.li? I just recently started looking at it. You can use it to create a newspaper of articles, photos, and videos that interest you. In other words, genealogists can make their very own Paper.li newspaper and then share it with other like-minded people through social media. Start by visiting the Paper.li website. It will ask you if you want to sign up (or log in) through Twitter or through Facebook. I picked Twitter (since I am no longer using Facebook). Next, you will be asked if you want to authorize Paper.li to use your account. The … Continue reading →

Love Your Pet but Not the Cost? How to Reduce the Cost of Raising Your Best Friend

Have you ever taken the time to calculate how much your furry or feathered friends are costing you each month? There is food, vet care, that regular application of flea and tick protection, grooming fees, litter or bedding, and of course toys, treats and equipment such as carriers, cages and the like. Depending on where you live and how eco-friendly or upscale you want to go with food and supplies, expect to pay up to $1,500 for a cat and $2,000 for a dog during the first year. Rabbits, hamsters, birds and fish are somewhat less expensive. Let us take … Continue reading →

The A B C’s of Finance Part 5

We are continuing to move through the alphabet learning new financial terms and expanding our financial vocabularies. There will always more to learn about money, and it is important to periodically take time to learn something new. We are now at the letter “o”. An originator is a bank, savings and loan, or mortgage banker that initially made a mortgage loan that is part of a pool. Often times, with a mortgage or other loan, borrowers must pay a loan origination fee to the originator of their loan. If you get a package mortgage, you are getting a mortgage on … Continue reading →

Genealogists Who Quilt Have a New Project

Here is an exciting opportunity for genealogists who have a talent for sewing, quilting, or other fiber based arts. It is a fundraising project that is designed to help get the images in the FGS 1812 Preserve the Pensions digitization project online, (so that many genealogists can use those images as a resource). You can help! The FGS 1812 Preserve the Pensions digitization is a joint effort from several prominent genealogy organizations. The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS), the National Archives, and Footnote.com are all involved. People who are “Genea-Quilters” can help, too. There exists a series of around 180,000 … Continue reading →

Disney Youth Programs

Your kids could learn physics from a roller coaster Three times now I’ve written about special events offered by Disney World under the Disney Youth Programs division: Grad Nite/Senior Class Trip, STEP Classic, and Festival Disney. So what is Disney Youth Programs itself? Its official website doesn’t have an “about” section, but perhaps that’s because the name of the department is rather self-explanatory. Disney Youth Programs is the banner under which the Disney Parks offer a multitude of deals, discounts, and opportunities for youth groups and organizations. Youth Programs falls under four main categories: Performing Arts, Education, Celebrations, and Field … Continue reading →

Work to the Power of…

In the next two weeks I’ll be defending my dissertation proposal. It is one step in the lengthy and often confusing process of obtaining a doctorate. This proposal is the product of several drafts (four) and a great deal of research, writing, and helpful notes from smarter people than I. The proposal itself totaled twenty-five pages. Not horrifically long but not short either. Silly me, I thought I’d be done until I defended it in the coming weeks. What was initially relief at the completion of an accepted draft for the proposal quickly turned to more work. I needed to … Continue reading →

We Finally Found an Adoption Agency

So after we came out of the shock of the business aspect of adoption, and it is a huge business, we finally found the type of agency we were looking for. The agency we used was Homes of Saint Mark located in Houston. We live in Dallas and Houston is about 4 hours away but they did not treat it like a way to make money. Homes of Saint Mark placed infants that were given up, they placed children from CPS, they also matched birth moms who want to give their babies up through private adoption. We thought we were … Continue reading →