How many of you would like to take a year off to travel or just spend more time doing what you love? Yeah, me too. However, taking a year off isn’t in the cards for most of us. Besides not having the finances to put our careers on hold for a year, taking a year off usually isn’t a great career move.

Yesterday, I read a great piece on MSNBC

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As the father of two, I am well aware of the challenges facing today’s career dad’s. Over the years we’ve seen the rights of working mothers expanded and rightfully so. However, with more women climbing the corporate ranks, more men are taking a more active role at home. I think this is the result of many factors. Partly out of necessity, but

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If you are a freelance writer or any other type of freelance or telecommute employee then you might have to deal with slow paying clients. As a freelance business owner or contractor you need to make sure you money is in your bank account. Find out how to deal with slow paying clients when you are a telecommute freelance worker by clicking on

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For years time management has been the buzzword in working smarter.  But is this really the answer?  I say toss out time management and learn to work more effectively.  Cut out the things are time wasters and focus on the things that are truly important.  Pareto's law says 80% of anything comes from 20% of

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As more and more people work from home and take company calls from there, it's inevitable that we'll be hearing more and more interesting sounds in the background going on at people's homes. Everyone has heard the toddler trying to talk to daddy or mommy while they're on an important conference call.  Here are some of

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Yesterday, Jamie Harrop told us how we shouldn't aspire to work from home due to the lack of real life interaction that it brings. Today, he shares with us his eight tips to remove the boredom of working from home and become a much more engaged and motivated telecommuter. His eight tips come from over three years experience of

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Our economy has been dependent on cheap oil since we first started buying it from foreign sources. We have become accustomed to a standard of living made possible by cheap and plentiful oil–a standard that almost no other country in the world enjoys.







Have you noticed that “organic” and “green” have now become

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