When blogging was fairly new, I blogged everyday. Not a single day has passed without updating my blog. It’s a nice feeling when you get yourself published and people acknowledge what you have to say. It’s addictive to some extent. You frequently check for new comments and check out traffic to see who’s been to [...]

Have you ever experienced writer’s block? You know, the feeling of wanting to write but nothing coherent seems to come out of your thoughts. You doodle, write a few sentences only to delete it afterwards. Sometimes I feel the same way about my blog. There are moments when I feel like closing down my blog [...]

I get my career news fix from popular career bloggers in the U.S. I like Laurie Ruettiman’s Punk Rock HR and Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist. The reason I love these bloggers is that they tackle relevant issues in the workplace and also dabble on significant areas such as politics, sex and parenting. Their style of [...]

The recession has put a strain in most, if not, everybody’s employment. That is if you still have a job to begin with. Inasmuch as we want to keep our jobs, there are factors, more often beyond our control, that we simply cannot do anything about. Companies that lose a number of its customer base [...]

In this day and age of economic instability, augmenting one’s income by doing part-time gigs is not unusual. I know a lot of people who are into part-time work just to have extra money on hand. Some are engaged in selling financial products such as mutual funds and insurance while others do freelancing jobs e.g. [...]