Career Advice Archives | Welcome to Unemploymentville https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/category/career-advice/ Useful Ideas for Unemployed or Unemployed Folks - Unemployment can be a beast. Don't go it alone. Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:33:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Best Career Advice Quotes https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/best-career-advice-quotes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-career-advice-quotes https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/best-career-advice-quotes/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:56:46 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2463 5 of my favorite quotes on work and career. From Walt Disney… and Sheryl Sandberg… I love this one For the writers and dreamers and for the sport fans and those who want to achieve… SHARE THIS with YOUR BEST FRIEND

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/best-career-advice-quotes-just-5-more/feed/ 0 I’m $50,000 in Debt and Reconsidering the Value of Higher Education https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/im-5000-in-debt-and-reconsidering-the-value-of-higher-education/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=im-5000-in-debt-and-reconsidering-the-value-of-higher-education https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/im-5000-in-debt-and-reconsidering-the-value-of-higher-education/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:39:29 +0000 http://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2701 After I graduated from college, I stumbled, tripped, and smacked my face on a painful $50,000 debt bill. I went from being a young adult to a full-fledged debt payer in a matter of months.  Living paycheck-to-paycheck in the hospitality industry is a whirlwind you feel like you’ll never get ahead of, especially when you have two degrees.  I worked full-time at one restaurant and picked up another job to pay off my monthly loan payments. I had enough and...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/im-5000-in-debt-and-reconsidering-the-value-of-higher-education/feed/ 0 How One Game Changed My Career and Life https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/how-one-game-changed-my-career-and-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-one-game-changed-my-career-and-life https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/how-one-game-changed-my-career-and-life/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:58:45 +0000 https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2874 Editor’s Note: While it was not unemployment that pushed Vinod Balan to change careers, I felt the key ideas of how and why he changed careers could help anyone looking for a job.  Here is his story. The Misconception I had worked in software development for about five years. The first few years were good.  But, after a certain point in time, I realized that this is not what I want to do in my life. I was always passionate...

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]]> https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/how-one-game-changed-my-career-and-life/feed/ 4 Inspirational Quotes for Job Loss https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/inspirational-quotes-for-job-loss/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inspirational-quotes-for-job-loss https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/inspirational-quotes-for-job-loss/#respond Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:32:20 +0000 https://www.unemploymentville.com/blog/?p=2928 Looking for Inspirational Quotes About Job Loss? Here’s a collection of ten, from people in wide variety of careers. Inspirational Job Loss Quote #1 Inspirational Job Loss Quote #2   Inspirational Job Loss Quote #3 Steve Jobs described his feelings of loss and abandonment in his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford: “We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get...

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