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The First Step to Finding Your Dream Job

Posted September 23, 2009 - 12:00 by Xin Lu

Career Building

In the current economy, many of us are happy just to be employed, but at the same time very few of us are working at the elusive "dream job". For many people their jobs simply provide a paycheck and not much more. So how do you find the career that makes you truly happy? I think the first step to finding your dream job is to define what it is.

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Best of Personal Finance: The Cost of Things

Posted May 7, 2009 - 15:47 by Andrea Dickson

Personal Finance

Stuff costs a lot. Stuff we buy, stuff we have, stuff we want to get rid of, stuff we don't buy because we can't afford it, stuff we bought that we can't afford, stuff that isn't stuff, but is actually a service of some kind. This week in the Best of Personal Finance, we looka t the cost of stuff, even stuff you don't really think about.

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What Is Your Dream Job?

Posted August 6, 2007 - 07:13 by Lynn Truong

Career and Income

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I honestly don't know what my dream job would be. I started with wanting to be an actress to producer (my last job squashed any glamorous visions of the Entertainment industry), to psychiatrist to writer and now...I don't know. All I know for sure is what I don't want to do: have a long commute spend all day doing things that don't matter to me not have any decision making abilities on the projects I'm completing work for someone I don't respect doesn't challenge me daily and help me grow into a better person in general What I'm doing to get my dream job: I'm not doing any of the above.

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What you need to know about getting what you want at work

Posted 2 years ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Career Building

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Yesterday, I had a one-on-one with my boss. The first time I had one of these (and the last, until yesterday), I was, quite frankly, intimidated. Then, I didn't know what to expect and I knew that I was getting my yearly review, so I basically nodded and smiled at everything my boss said. Now, it was almost all positive so it wasn't like I was letting him run me over. But I wasn't proactive in getting what I wanted, either.

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Adaptation: Lessons learned from being unemployed

Posted 2 years ago by Lynn Truong

Filed Under: Career and Income, Lifestyle

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Almost 3 years ago I quit my 9-6 job to "take a break." I quit not because I hated that particular job, but because I hated the 9-6 part. It also didn't help that my commute was 3 hours round trip and I didn't get paid well. I thought I just needed some time to figure out what I wanted to do. I was still under the assumption that I should be able to find something I loved to do and get paid well doing it. Hell I was even quoted in the LA Times saying something to that effect. Something about my generation demanding more from a job than just job security. We want the works: good location, cool coworkers, fun duties, excellent pay. I suppose I was naïve to think that I could be different and settle for nothing less. On the other hand, I've yet to go back to that life, so perhaps that dream is not so elusive after all. Only time will tell.

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