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College Be Mandatory?

 overing: Science, Mathematics, Economics, Religion, Literature, History , Western Civilization, and a foreign language, of course, Spanish, was necessary in order to graduate. Instead, I left that school before my grueling and boring second year, second semester. So, I attended a more appealing college, where I discovered more avenues to study the Spanish language, including taking more classes in basic Spanish and Latin American literature and going abroad. After graduating, I wanted to keep taking Spanish and was accepted to a public university where I studied to earn my Master's degree in Spanish literature and I taught elementary Spanish to college students. I earned enough to support my rent for my apartment, food and tuition. But according to the website thoughtcatalog.com, college is considered a "scam" because most students are blind when they go through a four-year college and still have no idea what they want to do as a career. They major in some subject area ...

What Employers Look For

 Awareness of the employers' expectations is essential to your finding a job. The older job hunting techniques focused on YOU, the person. They laid emphasis on your work history , accomplishments, academic background, and other credentials. It focused on your qualifications, and objectives. But that has undergone a sea change. Today, employers expect that you will know what THEIR needs are and tell them how you can fill those needs. What Employers Want: Energy: Displaying energy is the all-important first step. Energetic people exude enthusiasm , vigor, and drive, and that's what employers want. They want you to be active. They can easily sense this quality in a person almost as soon as they enter the room. So, if you are not an energetic type of person, it would be advisable to practice ways to look and act energetically in order to make a good first impression. It can make a huge difference, and sometimes job opportunities may be won or lost depending on the manner in which ...

Earning Income While You Sleep

 I am honestly not entirely sure what to say to folks that ask me how they can quit their job and make a living form home. It is a loaded question: The answer I often give them is not always what they want to hear. The question about working from home is really tied within the goal of working less and making more money. The idea of most people is to stop working and start earning. Unfortunately, I usually focus on keeping your day job while you begin to earn and create your passive income. It is possible to earn income while you keep your day job, the challenge is to stay focused on one action at a time and be consistent before you begin to move on to a totally different money making path. If you work to understand and apply what is currently being t aught by experts, you will see that it is often a life changing event that requires a new form of thinking. Even if you don't achieve the ideological goal of earning 1 million dollars a year, you can create a lifestyle that you can b...