My kids are in 5th and 3rd grades so their reality for what school is like is a little different than mine. Kids love field trips. Its an opportunity for them to do something different at school, see something new and learn something without knowing they are learning something. For them the bus ride is a [...]
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After being out of college for 19 years I was actually nervous about going back to school to become an independent insurance adjuster. Its not that I haven’t had to continuously learn throughout my career in Information Technology, attend classes, get certified on software and the like. There was something different about this, first off it [...] I have two kids ages 10 and 8 and they are in 5th and 3rd grades respectively. When I chose to go back to school and learn a new profession, insurance adjusting, they had some adjusting to get used to themselves. If you are going back to school and have younger children, do not underestimate their [...] Every 2 weeks I would hop on a Continental flight with three connections to get to upstate NY. Yes, that’s 6 times a trip I would get on and off a airplane with all the coughing kids, grumbling parents and generally grumpy travelers who don’t seem to know what “No liquid or gels” through TSA means [...] So the layoff is done. You desk is cleaned out and your years of serviced have been reduced to a couple of cardboard boxes. What comes next will vary for different people and will depend on the type of position you had. If you had a position that was middle to upper levels in the company [...] So you are getting terminated or as some may call it, a causality of a Reduction in Force. I cannot begin to tell you now important it is to get things in writing, even emails are better than nothing when you are getting RIFed/lay-ed off/fired/terminated or whatever the term of the day is. Having both your [...] There have been tons of articles written on the subject. Some by people who have been through it, others who haven’t. Personally, I have been on both sides of that desk, so I do know what is running through peoples heads. Take the following as my personal spin on what is going on during the actual [...] According to wikipedia : RIF – A generic reduction in force, of undetermined method. Often pronounced like the word riff rather than spelled out. Sometimes used as a verb, as in “the employees were pretty heavily riffed“. This is the second time in my 20 year career that I have been RIFed. The first time was part [...] |
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