Career Building

10 important signs your job might be worth staying at

So you don't have your dream job, and you're pretty sure you never will in your current corporation, but you're also not sure where else to go? You'd love to work at home but you're not sure where to start or if it's something you'd enjoy more than your current job? Love your boss and your coworkers but not sure you want to stay? Here are 10 signs that your current job might be worth staying at, at least until you have your dream job in the bag.

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How to Get Fired

In honor of the recent end of my employment, I thought I'd find some good tips on how to... well, to end your employment! Here are some of my favorites from around the interwebs:

Arrive late for work. Being on time is for wimps. Drag yourself out of bed whenever you feel like it. Stop to run an errand on your way to the office.

Don't forget the coffee. No not for your boss -- for yourself! You're already late so why not stop for a cup of coffee on the way to work?

Don't forget to get a muffin or a roll too (crumbs on your tie look really good).

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When to Splurge: Resume Writer

There are times when spending is the same as investing. And when it comes to putting your best face forward in a job search, you should invest in yourself.

Invest... in a resume writer.

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Want to land a good job? Learn to speak Ghetto!

Want a job that will earn you lots of money? A job that pays you to travel around the world? A job in which your knowledge and expertise will be valued by businesses across the Western Hemisphere?

Then you should study "the language of living in the ghetto", as grammatically and culturally challenged former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called the third most commonly spoken language in the world - the language that the rest of us know as Spanish. Hey, if that's ghetto, then I want to be ghettofabulous!

Seriously, though.

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Is This Job Worth It?

This post technically isn't about me. It's about a friend, a lousy job situation, and soliciting feedback from our readers for a friend of mine.

Tiffany is an engineer who works for a small start-up. She makes a very good salary, has benefits, and doesn't have a particularly heavy workload at the moment (her company is building a product, so the work comes in fits and starts, so she's been chilling for a couple of months while the hardware is being built). Anyway, Tiff is kind of bored right now, but otherwise OK. She's the only female in her office, and works with about 12 men who are much older than she is (she's 27, they're all about 45-57).

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How to survive (and thrive!) in a job you hate

Apparently, it's job day here at Wisebread.

Somewhere, sometime in life, everyone has a job they hate. Whether the hours are terrible, the pay is awful, the coworkers are wretched, or the boss is horrid, hated jobs are very much a thing of the present. We work them for different reasons, for different lengths of time, and with different levels of satisfaction, but almost all of us work them at some point. For many people, these jobs are a drag that make them feel like hollow shells of their former selves. However, there are a few people who manage to survive and thrive in jobs they really don't like. Here are a few of their secrets for making that hated job easier.

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Quick Notes: A Bonus Holiday Bonus?

This is for all of you who just so happen to A) get paid every two weeks and B) got paid at the end of the first week of December. Congratulations, my lucky friends! You get an extra paycheck this month. Get a head start on your New Year's Resolutions and invest it or use it as an extra payment on your debt.

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