Continuing signs that the economy is recovering

With reports coming in from Wall Street of three plus days of above negative figures from the Dow Jones Averages, the NASDAQ, even the Russell 2000, we are seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel of things getting better. Now I don’t claim this to be a blog about the US economy nor [...]

Workaholic and the end of the recession

I don’t know about you, but I am feeling mighty good lately with the news leaking out about the economy “bottoming out.” If you recall a post I made a while back, I stressed that whatever goes down must come up!
So take this as a path you need to go on now….be proactive. Think about [...]

Top USA Companies hiring now 2009

Just when you are at wits end on where to go to apply for a job, we get word on who is hiring now. CNN Money dot com has recently published a short list of which national American companies are hiring now. They range from 150 positions available to thousands. Although we still have a [...]

Workaholic and Stress

By now, you must be reeling from all the kaos and confusion about the economy here in the USA and the world. I just spoke with a good friend of mine and we “compared” notes about the economic situation and our work.
We found that we shared the same worries and fears about the future. [...]

Are we really rich?

Just read a post from John Chow dot com about how we live in our current down economy here in the USA. He makes a great point, which I always knew about our country. We still live in the greatest country on the planet. Even with our 7% unemployment rate, over one million people laid [...]

Wall Street gave $18 Billion to executives

President Obama is ticked off today, big time. The latest news came down about how the bailout money is being spent.
So today, we know that out of the billions of dollars that our US Government gave out to bail out the Wall Street and financial institutions, these institutions in turn gave out over $18 billion [...]

What jobs are in demand now?

According to some recent national reports, most jobs that will be in demand (USA) for 2009 will be:
1) Corporate turnaround consultants – These jobs involve developing strategies to save money for the company and start making profit, sooner than later. Pay scale can be tremendous.
2) Bankruptcy attorneys – This is an obvious one. With record [...]

Working in a down economy – continued

It seems that, with the down economy we are having in the USA, we have to be more careful in planning our work day. It will be more important to do this, especially for the self employed in order to accomplish more with less distractions while making more profits.
I have always used a scratch pad [...]

Recession is finally recognized – from last December?

I just read the newspapers and heard the radio shows talking about the “experts” telling us that the recession has arrived to the USA, only it was back in December of 2007. How interesting that our government and national media hold off telling us the recession is here only today! As you remember, all year [...]

50,000 more laid off from Citicorp

So more news of layoffs. The news media paints a broad brush on how “down in the dumps” we are as a country.
Yeah, we are facing some tough times but we’ve faced tough times before — even tougher. The business owners who survive are always the ones who believe in and seek out the [...]