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Recession-Proof Your Career

This article provides some good advice on ways you can be proactive versus sitting and waiting to be handed your pink slip. There's a lot you can do to keep your job as well as have something waiting before you're forced into unemployment.

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• #6 Comment from jsurfh2oey 
  4/11/08 12:18 AM | Permalink

  Everybody falls down at some point, you only fail if you don't get up and try again.  Layoffs seem to be part of a vicious cycle that comes around and haunts hard working people that need to provide for their families.  It is not a good feeling to be laid off, I know.  Finding a quality job these days is difficult, these are indeed tough times for a lot of people.  However keep that chin up and look forward don't look back, remember what your dreams are find a way to achieve them.  
  
  If you are searching for a way to reach your dreams you must look for other opportunity's and be open minded.
  
  What if I told you that you could own your own successful business for less than the cost of dinner out. http://wonder.ownanewbusiness.com
  
  Would that interest you?  
  
  This is a completely risk free opportunity, and you have nothing to lose.
  
  What changes if you check it out and you decide that it isn't for you?   Nothing.
  
  Can you afford not to?
  
  I feel that everybody should be given this opportunity, it is truly amazing!
  
  http://wonder.ownanewbusiness.com
  
  
• #5 Comment from fernlilli669 
  4/2/08 3:44 PM | Permalink

  My husband was  in lower level management for a transit company in the  north east. He was pink slipped, and to this day has yet to get even so much as an interveiw.
  The company he worked for paid for a youger guys college education and needed a place for him to go. It certainly didn't hurt that my husbands counter part at work had already made numerous comments about his age. (my husbands)
  She and the newly graduated college student went to the same school.
  Oddly enough the problems that supposedly he was pink slipped  for still exsist according to an inside source,and we are for the most part with out a home, with a school age child at home.
   
  I'm not sure how a person can prepare for that, I don't even know where if we will ever get work again, i know I'm scared.
  If you have any sugestions we would be glad to hear them, I never thought that we would ever be where we are now.
• #4 Comment from fernlilli669 
  4/2/08 3:42 PM | Permalink

  My husband was  in lower level management for a transit company in the  north east. He was pink slipped, and to this day has yet to get even so much as an interveiw.
  The company he worked for paid for a youger guys college education and needed a place for him to go. It certainly didn't hurt that my husbands counter part at work had already made numerous comments about his age. (my husbands)
  She and the newly graduated college student went to the same school.
  Oddly enough the problems that supposedly he was pink slipped  for still exsist according to an inside source,and we are for the most part with out a home, with a school age child at home.
   
  I'm not sure how a person can prepare for that, I don't even know where if we will ever get work again, i know I'm scared.
  If you have any sugestions we would be glad to hear them, I never thought that we would ever be where we are now.
• #3 Comment from willnax 
  3/17/08 4:54 PM | Permalink

  Call me ish male I think a Recession sould be some thing of a last re-zelort and i all so think by bloging to day i am really work on this Economy so yell a your bank for nickel and dime you every time you lose money because your account is you if you hit zero it meun the end  for you so do all you can to live a happy life sould it end qiuct lee wood be a blunder #
• #2 Comment from skisoccerlive 
  3/10/08 6:15 PM | Permalink

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=ddLx6IOIoQc