How to Super Charge Your Job Search Building Your Future Now

How to Super Charge Your Job Search Building Your Future Now Whether you are starting your job search or are right in the middle of it, getting a much needed spark is sometimes needed to get it running along. Being a full time job searcher can no doubt be a stressful affair but it can benefit tremendously by having a lot of support, some lucky breaks and a whole lot of hustle. Some things to consider: meeting peoplelots of people within your direct community or even outside your town or city. Getting to know lots of people gives you an awesome chance to finding and landing a job. Try to meet them in person and try going to as many functions as possible. Especially if you have a good attitude it can certainly help you find something you like too. Another great thing to do is network online. Reach out through social media or email companies. The name of the game is hustling and finding opportunities even when they might be hiding (the hidden job market.) Image: Raw Pexel

5 Reasons You Should Get A Marketing Degree

5 Reasons You Should Get A Marketing Degree So youll be leaving for college in a few months, but have not yet decided on what course to take.    Your parents want you to pick a marketing degree, but you resist them and tell them the degree is useless.    But is it?    Here are five reasons you should earn that   marketing degree to be successful in your marketing career: The job of a marketer is fulfilling. There is nothing more fulfilling than making other people happy and satisfied. In the business world, it is the marketer who works behind the scenes to ensure that the needs and wants of the consumers are met. Do consumers like this sweet toothpaste flavor, or do they prefer the menthol one? Should the company retain its barbecue fries or phase them out? These are only some of the questions the marketer seeks to answer. The marketer, in short, empowers the consumers by keeping the company informed of their needs and wants. You can land almost any job if you have a marketing degree. The term marketer can mean so many things. With a marketing degree, you can be a market research analyst, if youre the type who likes to analyze trends and patterns in a systematic way, and, well, conduct surveys. If youre not that type, you hate graphs and numbers and get dizzy when you see tables, dont fret because your marketing degree can take you to other places. You can be a public relations representative if youre the type who likes to interact with people and likes public speaking. You can even be an events planner, a sales representative, or someone who raises funds for a cause. If you are the tech-savvy type, then the social media manager post may be for you. You get to plan how to drive traffic to your clients website and how to expand your clients presence online. The marketers goal is clear: to connect companies or people with people and promote services or market products. A degree in marketing makes you a jack of all trades. The fact that you can land almost all types of jobs with a degree in marketing is a testament to how much of a jack of all trades a marketing graduate is. A marketing graduate does not only know how to conduct market research. He or she can write press releases, speak with confidence, and interact with people. A marketing graduate can sell and promote brands and can even analyze trends. There are many schools that offer marketing degrees. You wont have a hard time looking for a school that offers that much-coveted degree because, well, there are a lot of them. There are hundreds of marketing schools in the United States, for instance, and these are spread out across the country. Theres the University of California, and on the other side of the coast, New York University.   Theres the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia. Name a state and they will most likely have at least one school offering marketing as a course. And then there are those schools that offer online marketing degrees. Yes, you can earn the degree without having to go to school physically and go through the struggles that you have so learned to dread. Choose the option that suits you. The point is getting a marketing degree is completely within reach. Marketing is just the right balance of work and play! Last but definitely not the least, marketing provides you with the work-life balance that you need whether as a course or as a profession. Sure, you might have to bury yourself in books to analyze trends and write that market research for school or for your company. But that research also entails going out and talking to people or interacting with the consumers. A PR practitioner may have to write press releases for his or her client, but he or she would also have to attend social events, parties if you will, for him or her. A sales representative may have to write sales reports, but not after mingling with the people who gave him or her the sales. Conclusion Marketing, in short,   is serious but fun at the same time! So if you like to write but do not want to be a writer, you can consider taking up a marketing degree. And if you like to talk at the same time, are naturally inquisitive, and like to understand how things work, then it might just work for you. There’s no harm in trying, anyway.

11 fifteen years later

My 9/11 fifteen years later In case you dont know, I was at the World Trade Center when it fell. Here is the piece I wrote for Time magazine on that day. Here is an archive of the posts Ive written every year on 9/11. Here are my two biggest problems today: 1. Kids.  Both my sons  slimed out of doing chores two days in a row and I have read way too many times that kids who grow up with chores are way more resilient than kids who dont grow up with chores. And I really really want to be a good mom because I have to work so hard at not duplicating my own childhood. 2. Fat.  I have gained 30 pounds since I started driving 20 hours a week for my sons cello lessons. I was thin before this started, and I am tall,  but still, gaining 30 pounds is really terrifying. I have to wake up every day and tell myself I can lose it. Or else I wont get out of bed. So, its fifteen years after 9/11 and Im going to tell you the secret to all of life: 9/11 didnt change me. Im back to my regular self. I am worrying that I cant extract myself from my childhood and Im worrying that Im fat. There is  a lot of research about how catastrophes dont really change who we are. Like if you lose a limb you will be just as happy after that as you were before you lost the limb. We have a happiness set point we revert back to. I used to think its  incredible. Now I think its consoling. I want to be me. I dont want to be someone who can be completely changed by a few hours. Or minutes, if you are just counting the moments when I thought I would definitely die. There are little things, maybe, that have changed. Like, maybe I focus on so much on resilience  because it was a huge focus in the group therapy sessions after 9/11. But really my whole life has been about resilience finding it inside myself. And thank goodness, because I know now, that I can rely on it to get me through anything. The events of 9/11 didnt change me, but they helped me to know I have the resilience Ill need to get me through life. Last week a friends son interviewed me about 9/11 for a school project. At the end of the interview he said, Cool. Thank you so much. Im going to have the best report of anyone! And I said, Great! I hope yours is the best! And thats how I know how well Ive bounced back. Fifteen years later I want to be the best school report, and the best mom, and the most thin. Not much has changed since I was seventeen  years old.