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How to Write a Resume — Part Two — What to Put in It
Many of us, when we’re first starting out, find ourselves scrabbling to find something, anything, about us or our experience that an employer would be interested in. The 16-year-old first launching into the work world lists the 4-H Livestock Show, the babysitting, and the steady paper route. The 44-year-old recently let-go middle manager does not.
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Posted in Art, Business, Family, Growth, Life, Personal, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged artist, business, education, employer, experience, middle age, middle aged, resume
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Facebook Friends
When I troll through someone’s site and see that they have 555 Facebook “Friends,” I think — how do you keep up with all of these people? And, because the number of friends is open for others to see, there is the very public pressure to add to one’s list so that one does not look pathetic.
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Posted in Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Facebook, friends, high school, junior high, middle age, middle aged, popular, social butterflies
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How to Write a Resume, Part I
Your purpose in writing the resume is not to get an A out of Mrs. Polansky’s class but to stand out in the stack — so rules are soft, but the primary unbreakable one is to make sure that everything you do contributes to your resume being easy to read and understand. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Life, News, Personal, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged English, middle age, middle aged, resume, rules, work
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“People Can Be So Unkind!”
It’s the small things in life that add up to make the big ones. Leaving little compliments and happy thoughts strewn about not only improves the lives of those around us, but ours as well, directing our thoughts toward calmer pastures and away from the many and sundry distressing elements of day to day life.
Posted in Christian, Culture, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged At Seventeen, encouragement, Janis Ian, junior high, kind, mean-spiritedness, middle age, middle aged, unkind
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Impatience Is Its Own Virtue
Patience is a virtue, but impatience is n unusual, quirky, difficult-to-control gift. Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, impatience, middle age, middle aged, virtue
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Joie de Vivre is Bittersweet
I would say that this Empty Nest thing is not all it’s cracked up to be, but from what I’ve heard and read, it’s generally a bittersweet thing, so yes, it is what it’s cracked up to be. Continue reading
Posted in Christian, Culture, Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Personal
Tagged college, daughter, empty nest, heaven, middle age, middle aged, spring break
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Is Common Courtesy Still Common?
The other day I was at a small business, attempting to pay for my purchase. I say “attempting” because, even though I was at the front counter . . . checkbook to the ready the sales associate was so deep in conversation with her granddaughter that I was an obvious nuisance. Continue reading
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Tagged courtesy, customer service, kindness, knitting, middle age, middle aged, quilting, Runaway Bride
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