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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
This site is here to help you make a career change or
go back to work while keeping a healthy life balance of
priorities, family and relationships.
Whether you are an empty nester who is re-entering the workforce, an
entrepreneur who is looking for a way to network, someone who has been
recently laid-off, a person seeking their first job, starting all over, starting a
business, going through a divorce, looking for career opportunities, seeking
career advice and education, or simply someone who is setting new life
goals the FREE worksheets, articles and advice here will help you get to a
destination faster while also balancing other important areas of your life.
Learn to take your interests and channel them into productive career goals
on a fast track. Reach out of your comfort zone to achieve proven and
practical strategies for success. We invite you to share your insight, take
advantage of the resources here and continue to develop yourself and grow.
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Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
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* Starting over in
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"Worksheets and
Articles."
FREE resources on
this site are:
* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Articles
Don't Just Do What You Love - Study and Work Smart
Two of my children are in college and two are in high school – all in
formative career setting years. They are convinced that the only qualifier in
considering the pursuit of a college education is that their major be
something they love. Sounds good but it’s not entirely realistic. More than
2.6 million people who lost their jobs in the U.S. in 2008. The economy is
not yet on a steady road to recovery. None-the-less universities are happy to
sell students a college education in any number of professions that could
cost them anywhere from $4,000 to $50,000 a year. And most of those
students and their parents are borrowing money to pay the tuition. Is your
profession a recession proof profession? It is something to consider
especially if you are going to have to pay back school loans. We have all
heard the stories of young people working three jobs to pay off school debt.
If you are considering a college education for yourself or a loved one, make
sure you ask the administration office what the average salary is for that
profession upon graduation and what is the rate of placement. Doing what
you love is only “lovely” if it affords you a place to live, a car that can get you to
your job, expenses for the home and car, food, etc. Studying what you love is
only “lovely” if you can get a job in that profession upon graduation. If you
need a graduate degree to get a job, is the salary going to be there to pay off
the loans that you took for 5 years of college? Figure it on paper. Have the
bank help you put it on paper. Hang the paper where you can see it
everyday. If it doesn’t make sense, you have alternatives. You can switch to
a more affordable college. Can you consider community college for two
years to keep the cost down? You can switch to pursuing a more
employable profession. Or you can switch to pursuing a higher paying
profession.
Please don’t live under the delusion that all you need to do is follow your
dreams to be happy unless you are an heiress or a count. Define what you
love to do and then write down what you love about it. If you enjoy the fine
work in the human services or public sector is it because you are helping
people? Can you do this professionally and still afford to pay back your
school loans? If the answer is yes – terrific! Or do you volunteer to help
people on the side while your day job is to develop management strategies
for a corporation, giving you experience that will help your non-profit pursuits
a well. Some corporations as well as the federal government will
sometimes pay for employees to get a graduate degree. If you like baking
cookies is it because you are creative and like making people happy? Is
opening a bakery the only thing that you would love? You might explore
professions that allow for creativity and people contact such as art teacher,
community leader, public relations manager. Or do you truly want to be an
entrepreneur? These are all things to consider.
Pursue what you love with your eyes wide open. It will keep you from crying
when the first paycheck comes alongside the first loan invoice. You are
smart enough to know not to let your loan schedule be a shock. Do what you
love by working smart. Write your plan and its costs down on paper. And
look at it and revise it until it feels right. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Worksheets: “Recession Resistant Careers” and “On an
Interview Ask More Question Than They Ask You” go to Mary Lee's web site
at: www.startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com
Two of my children are in college and two are in high school – all in
formative career setting years. They are convinced that the only qualifier in
considering the pursuit of a college education is that their major be
something they love. Sounds good but it’s not entirely realistic. More than
2.6 million people who lost their jobs in the U.S. in 2008. The economy is
not yet on a steady road to recovery. None-the-less universities are happy to
sell students a college education in any number of professions that could
cost them anywhere from $4,000 to $50,000 a year. And most of those
students and their parents are borrowing money to pay the tuition. Is your
profession a recession proof profession? It is something to consider
especially if you are going to have to pay back school loans. We have all
heard the stories of young people working three jobs to pay off school debt.
If you are considering a college education for yourself or a loved one, make
sure you ask the administration office what the average salary is for that
profession upon graduation and what is the rate of placement. Doing what
you love is only “lovely” if it affords you a place to live, a car that can get you to
your job, expenses for the home and car, food, etc. Studying what you love is
only “lovely” if you can get a job in that profession upon graduation. If you
need a graduate degree to get a job, is the salary going to be there to pay off
the loans that you took for 5 years of college? Figure it on paper. Have the
bank help you put it on paper. Hang the paper where you can see it
everyday. If it doesn’t make sense, you have alternatives. You can switch to
a more affordable college. Can you consider community college for two
years to keep the cost down? You can switch to pursuing a more
employable profession. Or you can switch to pursuing a higher paying
profession.
Please don’t live under the delusion that all you need to do is follow your
dreams to be happy unless you are an heiress or a count. Define what you
love to do and then write down what you love about it. If you enjoy the fine
work in the human services or public sector is it because you are helping
people? Can you do this professionally and still afford to pay back your
school loans? If the answer is yes – terrific! Or do you volunteer to help
people on the side while your day job is to develop management strategies
for a corporation, giving you experience that will help your non-profit pursuits
a well. Some corporations as well as the federal government will
sometimes pay for employees to get a graduate degree. If you like baking
cookies is it because you are creative and like making people happy? Is
opening a bakery the only thing that you would love? You might explore
professions that allow for creativity and people contact such as art teacher,
community leader, public relations manager. Or do you truly want to be an
entrepreneur? These are all things to consider.
Pursue what you love with your eyes wide open. It will keep you from crying
when the first paycheck comes alongside the first loan invoice. You are
smart enough to know not to let your loan schedule be a shock. Do what you
love by working smart. Write your plan and its costs down on paper. And
look at it and revise it until it feels right. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Worksheets: “Recession Resistant Careers” and “On an
Interview Ask More Question Than They Ask You” go to Mary Lee's web site
at: www.startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com
Mary Lee's
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!