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If you regularly browse sites with titles like I Hate My Cubicle, and Desk Jobs Suck, maybe it’s time to consider a career change. Here’s our pick for top jobs that don’t require a chair: Private Investigator What could be better than being paid to find the dirt others want to keep hidden? Often working unusual hours in various locations, private investigators follow spouses accused of cheating, dig up confidential business memos, and track down missing persons. Career Outlook: Due to heightening security demands, employment of private detectives and investigators is expected to grow 22 percent during the 2008-18 decade—much faster than average. Average Income: $32,140–$57,910 Museum Collection Manager Rarely found in a traditional office, Museum Collection Managers are responsible for the care and keeping of a museum’s artifacts. On any given day, you could be solving a storage dilemma (how exactly should you archive a stuffed ostrich?), cataloguing hundred-year-old objects, or … [Read more...] about 7 Jobs for People Who Hate Cubicles

This free 1,200-word report by pro blogger and Jobacle.com founder Andrew G. Rosen gives you five actionable tips to ensure you get noticed when applying for blogging jobs. Becuase sending a blogger resume is not enough! Content includes: The importance of email subject lines How to impress the blog owner Tips on being concise and direct Timing is everything The power of being nice … [Read more...] about How to Land a Blogging Job

Nothing broadens our horizons or is quite as fulfilling as travelling. Meeting new people, having exciting experiences and seeing foreign places is a deeply life affirming and confidence building thing to do and often gives our lives fresh perspective. However, travel needn’t be consigned to just your annual two week holiday or gap year before university. Working abroad lets you experience life in far-flung places at any age, while giving your CV some attractive, unique and transferable skills. If you want to live like a local, be part of a new culture and community and best of all, get paid for it, then say goodbye to dreary UK weather and check out our 5 best traveling jobs that will help you get up and go globetrotting…   1. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Teaching English is a great way to travel overseas. A TEFL qualification only takes a month to complete and gives you a better chance of finding work. Even without it there are many countries that require … [Read more...] about The 5 Best Traveling Jobs

Ever wonder what it's like to work online from home full-time? We interviewed Patricia, a web marketing assistant with a year of ‘at home’ experience to find out for you - here's her story: What is your job title? How many years of experience do you have in that field? I am a Web Marketing Assistant. I’ve been working in this field for a little over a year. Would you describe what you do on a typical day? Typically I look for websites that have content that is relevant to the website I’m working on that particular month.  Once I find them, I try to build a relationship with them: I contact them with information about the company and website so that they know more about us. If they become interested, and if it is convenient for both parts, they place a link to us. Sometimes, we place a link to their website too. In addition, my duties also include promoting our websites. I am in charge of writing Press Releases, posting articles and posting information on relevant forums and … [Read more...] about Inside Jobs: Interview With a Web Marketing Assistant

As you leave your house for the last time, your Mom swears you forgot something. But you are in a hurry so she just sends you off hoping that it wasn't something important. Well, it was important. Below are the three things your mom forgot to tell you about college. Time Management Most pre-college students live a pretty carefree life. They may have a small part-time job, but really when it comes down to it they don't have many responsibilities. When a student goes to college, the critical skill of time management is a necessity and if not developed and utilized properly, you will have a lot of trouble. Time management is broad and applies differently to everyone, but it usually consists of keeping a detailed planner or calendar. Your parents may have done everything for you, but now it's your time to keep your life organized and efficient. Try different things like iPhone apps or Google Calendar. Whatever you do, time management is a must. How to study High school and college are … [Read more...] about 3 Things Your Mom Forgot to Tell You About College

Want a fun way to get depressed? (sounds counter intuitive, I know.) Here's a list of the best jobs in the world, every last one of them more fantastic then the last, and a lot more fantastic than yours. Read'em and weep. Waterslide Tester Do you ever have to undertake travel for your work? It's dull, isn't it? Waiting about in utterly anonymous airport departure lounges for the inevitable news that your flight has been cancelled and you won't be seeing the kids this Christmas. A more enjoyable way of getting around is by waterslide, the thinking man's method of motion. Some holiday resort companies hire people to test their waterslides, for safety reasons, sure, but also to get an *ahem* "professional" opinion on how good they are. I know it sounds like a great calling, but it has its ups and downs. Luxury Bed Tester My boss often tells me he could do my job in his sleep. I like to think that that isn't quite true. However, if I were working as a luxury bed tester, I guess I'd have … [Read more...] about Looking Forward to Monday: The Best Jobs in the World

Welding is a fantastic career for the ambitious, patient and steady handed amongst us. While it can be noisy, uncomfortable and even sometimes dangerous, welding as a career is also challenging, fun and rewarding. With all sorts of skills involved, from welding itself to profile cutting and plasma cutting, there’s a host of interesting and valuable skills to be learnt as part of a career in welding.     Demand Recent years have seen a vast increase in the demand for skilled welders. Because of this it is not only easy and very cost-effective to learn the required skills but it is also incredibly easy to find suitable and well paid work – an invaluable attribute in today’s economy. Flexibility The demand and general nature of a career in welding means that it is a very flexible vocation to uptake. This means the profession is highly suited to those with a love of travel, and people with few ties who are able to move where the money and the work is. With this in mind, for those who … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons To Choose Welding As A Career…Seriously!

Are you interested in starting your own home business or working for yourself? Perhaps you don’t feel like you what it takes in you. Even if you were not naturally geared with good work characteristics, or if they have been beaten out of you by the 9-5 work system, then don’t feel left out! Hundreds of successful entrepreneurs were once just like you: Busy, exhausted, uninspired workers who dumped the regular way of things and took out on their own. Below you’ll find six of the business “B’s” and how you can incorporate them into your life so you can start working for yourself. Be Passionate Passion is the most important thing you need when you start out on your business venture. Be passionate about making money, be passionate about being your own boss, be passionate about taking off on your own, and, best of all, be passionate about the job you are going to do. While you’ve probably spent your entire life simply being satisfied with your work, you now need to become excited and … [Read more...] about Do You Have What It Takes to Work From Home?

Sounds trivial doesn’t it, the idea of thinking about your clothing when you freelance from the comfort of your own home? But you’d be surprised how many freelancers put on a suit and jacket to head to their home office. I’m afraid I’m one of them. I draw the line at a tie, but putting on that shirt and jacket is just one of the tricks I use to keep myself and my brain in line to make sure that I’m in work mode for the day. Experienced contractors and freelancers all have tricks of the trade to maintain their freelance work discipline. For me, after I’ve walked the dog and fed the baby I’ve learned that before I head over to my office at the end of the garden I need to put on a shirt and jacket. It sounds stupid, but when I first got started I used to get easily distracted and was far too laid back in my approach to finding work. As a consequence I wasn’t actively chasing down as many contracts as I should have been. Instead I would sit in my shorts and watch the latest episode of … [Read more...] about Dressing Up to Work at Home. Am I Nuts?

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks the medical technologist and technician professions as consistently likely to provide opportunity for employment into the near future, with the demand for cardiovascular technicians and technologists alone expected to rise 24% by the year 2018. While it's not particularly ethical to be advocating serious thought about particular careers to impressionable youth, with growing uncertainty regarding the long-term fate of our nation's unemployment rate, there's certainly no shame in wanting your students to appreciate practical professional pursuits as early as possible. If you teach a science lesson or lead a science classroom, then fields of science and the details within – the careers and knowledge most anticipated to be in perpetual demand into the foreseeable future – should be concepts your students are well acquainted with. Most of the lessons involved are certainly an established part of the curriculum: human anatomy, cellular construct, … [Read more...] about The Future of America Depends on Future Medical Professionals: Get Recruiting