White Collar Job Market Getting Bluer

These aren't what anybody, except the top 1%, will ever call 'the good ole days' by any means. We've seen the factories close, the stores close, and even the car dealerships representing brands of cars we grew up with close. The 'blue collar' workforce has taken a significant hit and many have been out of work for upwards of a year now. The lesser publicized group of impacted individuals come from the 'white collar' domain, made up primarily from manager up to CEO's. What do these folks do when the headsman comes a swingin'? They either collapse from the inability to market themselves efficiently or they come out swinging. The new emphasis today is leadership, not management. You can teach and idiot to manage (many have seem such a manager) but you can't teach one to lead. Organizations need qualified leaders that are ready to bring their company's out of the darkness and successfully motivate those that they lead into a well oiled labor machine, primed for the new era to come.

In the past what B.S. grads would do is continue into a MBA program while they worked and figured that would be the golden ticket to brilliant careers and riches. There are MBA's working for McDonalds just to make ends meet right now. This is the truth! It has come to that and in some cases worse. What these people did was to touch upon Organizational Development, which was not enough! Not enough for the future job market and new business strategies about to become realized. The driving force behind tomorrows future business leaders is Organizational Leadership! That's right - LEADERSHIP! A knowledgeable and confident leader draws people to them! They put their trust in them! They want to succeed WITH them! With busy schedules and work demands the only way any motivated self-starters can achieve this training is by Online masters programs run by qualified centers of education that are keyed into the marketplace and it's demands for time and money. Instead of saying a few years down the road how you wished you'd done something back then, you could say you were glad you did it back then when others didn't. Who would have the choice of careers then?

A Win, Win Situation!

I've been playing the lottery for a long time now and I know the odds are against me even breaking even. I guess that's why my buddy Bill won and I didn't. It wasn't a huge win, ONLY $10 thousand before taxes, but he always seems to hit scratch tickets and quick numbers. Well, I got an offer from him I didn't expect. He's hiring me to take him to Tallahassee, FL to claim his winnings (and pay the taxes) and in return he'll pay all gas expenses and put us us up in a couple of suites in a nice beach hotel to celebrate. I guess he wants to stay in the area instead of going to Miami/South Beach or the Keys or something. Now I just have to look up hotels in Panama City beach FL, he likes white sand, I could care less! It would have been better for my car if there were an office nearer to Tampa Bay to claim winnings but what the heck, I've never driven that far north in the gulf side of the state. Now, I just have to work out how I'm going to take a Friday off without appearing to have already made a commitment to party. We'll see what happens.

Bright, White Teeth Ads

Have you noticed how many web sites have a personal story that they can guarantee that the treatment they found recently will whiten teeth like never before? It's nothing new, in fact the stories go way, way back in history where nobles would rinse their mouths with urine and let the ammonia in the pee bleach their teeth white. I kid you not, it's true. The downside is that it got your teeth so white that it ate the enamel away from their teeth and left them with a rotted, painful mouth of pebbles once called teeth. Today we get professional oral practitioners that can whiten your teeth safely, if that's what you really want. You now see ads from cities around the country like the Atlanta cosmetic dentist, the Boston cosmetic dentist, the Charlotte cosmetic dentist, and the L.A. cosmetic dentist. The list goes on and on but one thing needs to be followed when doing this kind of procedure to your one set of teeth, make sure the person doing it is a licensed Doctor of Dentistry or else you may be spending money on a charlatan who'll leave you in pain and causing expensive restorations to your teeth.

First of the Month!

White Rabbit! The Brits will know what I mean. :)