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- Ask for a Raise or Change Jobs? - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAsk for a Raise or Change Jobs? Mid-level employees with two years or more of experience have never been in a better position to ask for a raise. The percentage of the U.S. labor force that is working is at the highest in decades, companies are looking for workers, there is a real ...
Views: 11 - Overcoming Shyness in Life and Business - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithOvercoming Shyness in Life and Business Perhaps the best example of a person who has overcome shyness is the performing artist who stands naked on stage and presents his art before an audience of half-drunk New Yorkers in the wee hours of the morning. Whatever the artistic merit of the ...
Views: 24 - Alternate Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAlternative Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between? Alternative reality is an opinion that may or may not be supported by facts. A new phrase, alternative reality, entered the language with the Trump administration. It is used to describe statements often issued by the president that ...
Views: 25 - Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAds for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money You can have ads for your business or service that circulate worldwide, contain exactly the content that you want, stay up forever and pay you money. Money- generating advertising can have graphic, written, video and audio sections ...
Views: 26 - Entrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithEntrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness Useful work to fill the hours of our days is what your body would tell you it wants if it could speak. In 2018 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the CDC, declared that loneliness was the second most significant ...
Views: 47 - Stay or Move With Your Job: Increasing Your Options - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithStay or Move with Your Job: Increasing Your Options When you work for the largest company in your city or town and they decide to close their production lines and move elsewhere, do you move with your job, or stay put and hope you can find work at another company? When you went to work for a ...
Views: 67 - Taking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithTaking Control of Your Own Life: Making the Transition from Punching Bag to Fighter A fighter who quits can never win. A fighter who stays in the ring may win and will learn from the experience. Wm. Hovey Smith, Author of Create Your Own Job Security. If you ever played high school ...
Views: 42 - Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown-Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithJob Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker If you were one of the 800,000 Federal workers involved in the recent, and maybe continuing partial government shutdown or are a former Sears or K-Mart employee and have lost your job, you are joining tens of ...
Views: 45 - Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithProperty Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine and what’s theirs is mine if I can get it. Our canines’ views of property rights are quite different from the usual Western legal constructions where property is transferred by sale, exchange, ...
Views: 40 - From Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithFrom Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger My 2011 Ford Ranger Sports Truck was purchased used and modified to be a one-guy outdoor truck. As a 76-year-old fellow who mostly hunts by himself, I do not need, or want, a huge pick-up truck. The Ranger that I purchased was equipped with a ...
Views: 430 - An Older Guy Balances his Physical, Intellectual and Social Life - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithAn Older Guy Balances His Physical, Intellectual and Social Life Writers don’t retire, they just die. I am one of that tribe. At 77 I find myself living alone in Central Georgia while facing the tasks of earning money, keeping up my house, fighting off the ills of an aging body, maintaining ...
Views: 51 - Regular Order: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithRegular Order According to the Dog All actions by my humans must be done the same way every day. Just as the sun rises and sets each day, our canine companions feel that their humans should also keep the same schedule and become disquieted when we are not compliant with what they view as ...
Views: 32 - Canine Supervision: Natural Law According to the Dog - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2019 from Wm. Hovey SmithCanine Supervision: Natural Law According to Your Dog For the safety and wellbeing of the household no human should be allowed to work except under the close supervision of one or more canine supervisors. Because of the pitiful lack of basic sensory functions in humans such as the ...
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