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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

Success

Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. Now, he was out of a job.

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Stop Saying "When I Was Your Age"

On The Job

One of the most vulnerable groups of employees are the experienced workers with their higher salaries and richer benefits. Also, nothing makes you look worse than clothes that are too tight, too loose or too worn, so get them altered or get rid of them if needed. Keeping up on current events. Offering contacts. Keeping the edge.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. When she was hired, her manager said she would be on track for promotions and salary increases but in three years, she was overlooked numerous times. The third most important thing that staff wants is to be fairly compensated in salary and other benefits.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

That means that if I take a salaried job today, I might be earning $32,550 while the guy next to me earns $35,000. Many of you with families would gladly take on a job at twice your current salary even if it meant some sort of weird workplace problem. I wanted to enter a female name in the form field to make this post.

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