If you are looking for flooding solutions, don't count on buyouts
We can all take a lesson from Eli and the rest of Big Blue.
If you look up the word "resilient" in the dictionary, Job's picture will be there. He's got to be the patron saint of bouncing back, an inspiration for us all!
Four years after spending Super Bowl Sunday in a coma, the only ice I hope to see this year is floating in my water glass.
Today I feel like I'm "running on empty." I need some down time, just for a little while, before I continue with the job search: time to refuel my energy and enthusiasm back to normal levels.
Four years to the day after a sudden illness took my legs, hands, thumbs, wrists and most of my throat, 'Here I am'.
Walking on two prosthetics in the dark while going downhill is not what I would call a "good hair day."
Taking the time to experience something outside of your usual routine, or even something as simple as daydreaming, can open your mind to new ideas and perspectives.
Are you unemployed, underemployed or underpaid?
I used to think of "99-weekers" - people who'd maxed out at 99 weeks of unemployment benefits - as sad, failed, almost tragic figures. What do I think now that I'm about to become one of them?
In the world of disability, roles have a tendency to change. Sometimes in an instant.
A look back on the ups, downs and everything in between of 2011
How do you measure your worth as a person? As we continue the job hunt In 2012, let's never forget the value we add -- yes, even without a job! -- to so many people's lives.
"Merry Christmas" is not a curse!
There are a few things quite as memorable as someone getting out of a wheelchair and seeing them walk for the first time.
Contrary to what you may think, the holidays are supposedly the best time to get hired. So I'm getting busy in the hope of discovering the gift of employment under my Christmas tree this year.
Life lately reminds me of that old song, "That's Life" -- "I'm riding high in April, shot down in May" -- only for me it's more like, "I'm riding high this morning, shot down this afternoon."
Thanksgiving was an uplifting, pleasant interlude in the midst of the usual daily focus on the job search. How can the unemployed keep that positive feeling going?
It's hard to keep looking for work when there's nothing to show for your efforts. But it's even harder to figure out what else to do (or not do).
It was almost an out-of-body experience for me when I ventured briefly, last week, into the world of retirement planning. It made me eager to get home and send out more resumes.
Plenty of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters are there because they're unemployed. Should I join them?
I'm tough, but I'm human. If the way I'm going about my job hunt isn't working AND is making me feel bad in the process, then it's time to find a new way.
This is not your preschooler's alphabet! Join me for a lighthearted yet serious journey through the ABCs of Unemployment.
I'm still going on interviews but I still don't have a job. I'm not sure if I even expect to get a job anymore. But I won't -- I can't -- admit this, either to you or to myself.
Next week the President may propose a program to "help" us long-term unemployed. If he wants to pay somebody to hire me, then I don't think I want that kind of help.
Could it be that I haven't found a job because I'm applying for the wrong ones? It's hard not to experience occasional self-doubt while job-hunting when nothing seems to be working.
A lengthy, fruitless job search is so tiring. Yet when my efforts seem most useless, that's when I must dig deep and keep up the hunt.
As an involuntary expert on unemployment, I've compiled a few helpful questions and answers for you newcomers to the jobhunting scene.
The state of being unemployed can raise a multitude of trivial and not-so-trivial concerns for the job seeker.
It's Harry Potter time...do you know where your parents are?
Yesterday's job interview went really well. Or did it? I think so, but why haven't I heard anything more yet? If only I could turn off my fretful overactive imagination...
Remember the myth about Sisyphus, doomed to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it roll back down and then push it up again? Why does that remind me of job-hunting?
Am I on the verge of starting a new chapter in my life, or am I fizzling out? Prolonged unemployment can make your past, your present and your future look and feel fuzzy.
These days I feel like a kid playing "dress up" when I go into an office for a job interview. Then it's time to play the "Goofy Questions Game" with the interviewer!
They've tried it their way for two-and-a-half years and the economy is only getting worse. Could our government please try something else now?
The job search is rarely a linear process for me; it's more often like following the bouncing job ad. Still, I feel encouraged today by a relative's good news and the start of a new week.
Real people's stories about finally getting a job can be encouraging; but because we're talking about real life, not everyone's story has a happy ending.
Choosing between the truth and a lie is simple when you consider the probable consequences.
It's so hard to stay optimistic and not worry about my job prospects when more bad economic news comes out every day.
Ever wonder how to present yourself as an outstanding candidate for the job? Me too. Here's some common-sense professional advice to help you stand out.