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The Three True Job Interview Questions

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Although this article about Executive Recruiters might not apply directly to you the advice it contains does.

When you’re looking for a job it would do you good to ask yourself these three questions:

1. Can you do the job?
2. Will you love the job?
3. Can we tolerate working with you?

The article goes into a little more detail about what each of those questions entail. But really, the meaning should be self-evident from the questions themselves.

If you answer ‘No’ to even one of those questions then I’d say the job isn’t right for you. And if you take that job you’ll end up leaving it unhappily. You have to pay the bills but you should do your best to make sure you’re happy doing so.

Juggling

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Although I never promised that this blog would be updated regularly I still feel I should explain (to anyone reading) why updates occur haphazardly.

Let’s start with this blog as Commitment #1. (Although I feel it’s too early for this blog to be considered a ‘commitment’ – it hasn’t been around long enough that I feel I have committed to it. I intend to commit but time will be the judge.)

Before I began this blog I immediately ruled out the possibility that it would be updated daily. Not only would that be immensely time consuming but I don’t have enough worthwhile things to say.

College is Commitment #2. Right now I am taking five different classes at my university – no small feat. And in order to stay current with my studies I must attend class and produce whatever homework is required. Continue reading →

A Rule to Live By

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“Nothing good happens after 2 a.m.”

This idea comes from the TV show How I Met Your Mother, and is an idea which I think is pretty self-explanatory. Although I found the idea funny when I first heard it, I didn’t really consider it to be ‘true.’

However, as time progresses, and I analyze and evaluate my adventures past 2am, I have come to whole-heartedly agree that nothing good happens after 2am.

This can be true for many reasons. To name a few: people are more tired after 2am.

Ok, that wasn’t a few reasons. It was only one.

I’m sorry, I’m a little tired myself.

It’s after 2am. I’m up, restless, and hoping this entry serves as proof:

Nothing good happens after 2am.

Amazon Makes Selling Fun

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Right now I’m surrounded by old textbooks.

Textbooks from the previous four years of my college life. Some textbooks I don’t think I ever opened. Some textbooks I think I used at most three times. Some textbooks make me recoil with bad memories of professors (who weren’t the greatest teacher [but I may not have been the greatest student either]).

So what’s a college student to do with so many old textbooks – gathering dust and taking up space?

Sell them on Amazon Marketplace!

This has been on my to-do list for the past two weeks and this night the time was finally right. I did some brief reading over the past two weeks about how Amazon Marketplace works — gauging the level of difficulty and time it would take.

There was no way I could predict how easy Amazon makes it to sell things. It’s so easy it’s almost fun.

Almost fun – this post was written 3/4’s of the way through listing all the textbooks. It’s super easy, but also super monotonous and this is a nice break.

So, to all my college and ex-college friends out there: If you have no more use for your college textbooks and have a free evening: List your books! Aint nothing so sweet as making money. Except lollipops. They’re sweeter. (It’s because of the sugar.)

[Update 1: Less than 24 hours from listing my textbooks one has already sold! That was time well spent...]