Career Ramblings

January 4th arrives in 2 hours (for me, anyways) and I was thinking: what are YOU doing to do it up in 2008? I really want to know, not only because I have some massive plans for this year but also because I always feel refreshed and ambitious come the start of a new [...]

How I wonder who you are?
Do you ever think back to your high-school or college days and wonder what all your friends (and enemies) are up to? Applications like Facebook, Classemates, and MySpace have certainly made it easy to recreate old connections and bridge gaps that have been created between former friends, but there’s [...]

One thing I’ve always found interesting is that the big businesses - the ones that are worth billions and billions of dollars - never seem to miss a beat. A new trend emerges and you can bet that world-wide giants like Microsoft and Google are going to have some kind of product designed to [...]

So after a huge mash up of my business I’m forced to sit down and completely rethink everything, from product planning to marketing (and literally everything in between). At first I was quite upset by all of this and was finding it hard to think clearly, but then I realized that this change, though [...]

He said/she said, they said/I said, we all said drama. No matter where you go, office politics and drama will follow. Someone will decide not to like you because you looked at them wrong or because they simply don’t like your name; someone will say that you said something that you didn’t; and [...]

Hey everyone;
I took roughly 10 days off and flew across the country to visit some friends and family. I had a great time, filled with mechanical bull riding, tequila shooters, candid moments on the lake, relaxing drives, and a complete revitalization of my mind, body, and business soul. I also realized that the [...]

Some of you may have heard the hit song “Hey There Delilah” and thought that it was good. It’s easy to manipulate and put in your own style and flow. I can’t even recall how many times some friends of mine and I would butcher this song. I’ve decided that today’s post [...]

Jeff Kee recently dedicated a video to me which I did not find as amusing as this one. Now this really reminds me of Jeff For those that know Jeff, let me know what you think.

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Borat at Job Interview in US and A!

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Everyone hates paying taxes! Especially when you don’t know where in the world those hard earned tax dollars go. Who does it help? Where does it all go? Is it paying someone to do something? Well, The U.S. government has a specific process of where all of those billions of [...]

Our motto at Career Ramblings is: “If you ask, you shall receive.” After receiving numerous requests to integrate a newsletter sign up list, we have finally done so on the very top of our sidebar. Our Newsletter is free and we will send you an issue about once a month. Obviously we don’t want to [...]

Our intentions with Career Ramblings have always been to provide helpful career resources for our readers, regardless of what stage in your career you are in or in what industry you are in. There are times when our efforts are rewarded. And I don’t mean rewarded financially (although not frowned upon), but rewarded [...]

Most people have either dated a co-worker or have thought about pursuing a co-worker, but there seems to be an underlying hesitance to do so because of the “sexual harassment” fear. It is perfectly okay to ask a co-worker on a date as long as you do not make them feel uncomfortable or imply [...]

*****UPDATE (11:45pm PST): Gunman has now accounted for 31 dead and has shot himself.
This morning, a gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman was killed but it was unclear if he was shot by police [...]

Those of you that are familiar with blogging have most likely stumbled upon John Chow dot com and his lessons on how to make money on the internet. It’s a very popular site for bloggers and many are enticed to leave comments since it provides a linkback to your site for being one of [...]

The Career Ramblings community of readers have given us great feedback and have been very interactive. This is the exact environment we were striving for when we started this site just 3 short months ago. We have a question for you - How did you first hear about Career Ramblings? Go ahead and take [...]