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How to Understand Your Rights as an Employee
There's nothing like the feeling of starting out in a brand-new career. But as you sign on the dotted line and learn the ropes at your new job, are you aware of your rights as an employee? Knowing what they are is the best way to ensure they stay protected. Here’s how you can understand your rights as an employee.
By Carlos Fox7 years ago in Journal
Event Planning Trends for 2019
Are you planning a big event this coming 2019? While a few things remained the same—such as the importance of choosing the right venue, serving good food, and making sure that the whole event setup is attractive through the use of lights, decorations, and inflatable dancers, there are new ideas and concepts that are about to change the way people will organize events in 2019. Excited to know about the upcoming trends? Keep reading!
By Miriam Lawrence7 years ago in Journal
How to Become a Millionaire
First off, I'm not a millionaire, so be sure to seek advice from someone who has already become one and copy what they do. So let's break it down—to become a millionaire, you need to either make $2,739 a day for a year or something more feasible like $273.9 a day for 10 years, or $91.32 per day for 30 years. This is if you do not spend any of it and just create your own little fund. But let's break it down into ways that will make it a little more easier to get to this goal. By the way, you can easily earn $25,000 per year of interest off of $500,000, so becoming a millionaire doesn't have to necessarily be your goal.
By Marcus Azaria7 years ago in Journal
Self-Publishing
If you're like me, you have more than one writing platform that you like to use to get your work out into the world. But what if you have a longer work, like a novel or collection of poetry? That's where Kindle Direct Publishing comes in! Kindle Direct Publishing lets you publish your longer works as Kindle books and paperback books (if longer than 45 pages) on Amazon.
By Kristen Barenthaler7 years ago in Journal
7 Ways to Maximize the Time You Spend Commuting
When people ask when you're joining the rat race, it sounds like such a dark and unpleasant way to describe working life. If you don't make the most of the time you spend on unfortunately necessary evils like commuting, it's going to feel a lot like a rat race taking part in a city's filthiest sewer.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Journal
How to Start Blacksmithing for Under $50
Will Turner, from The Pirates of the Caribbean. Whenever I try to think of a blacksmith, he's the one who comes to mind. And man, does he have a nice shop. Hundreds of hammers, hundreds of tongs, a giant furnace, and seemingly enough steel to outfit the entire English Navy with fine steel cutlasses and bayonets.
By D.C. Perry7 years ago in Journal
How to Rock Your Freelance Portfolio When You Have Zero Experience
Let me start this by telling you that my entire "so-called career" was shaped by the oddly adequate relationship I have with the people I work with. I never had to show my portfolio to a stranger inside some cold and distant office that took me three hours of insane traffic to reach for a chance to ghost write an op-ed for an adult magazine that nobody actually reads. I also never had to have drinks with the editors at some night club to talk about a feature I thought had a decent chance to be featured on the front page of a newspaper.
By Lovelli Fuad7 years ago in Journal
How to Exponentially Maximize Your Vocal.media Income
Let me be honest here. I joined Vocal.media back in December of 2017. I wrote several articles over a period of three months during rehab from knee surgery. I am a writer-producer by profession. However, I could not focus on my more business-related creativity and so I experimented writing content for this website.
By Joel Eisenberg7 years ago in Journal
Have You Always Wanted to Write a Book?
Has writing a book been on your bucket list? Helping people get their books written, published, and most importantly marketed so that they sell, is a passion for me! I spent way too long in the quagmire of 'I don't know what to do' so I didn't do... anything.
By Amanda Rose7 years ago in Journal
Surviving Working Retail During the Holiday Season
I've been working part time in retail for two years now at a local mall that is relatively busy year round. The store I work at is pretty popular, so things tend to get busy after Halloween. I remember how hectic my first holiday season was at work, but I can promise you, you can (and will) handle it. Here are five ways to help make this holiday season in retail one to remember.
By Suzanne Gayle7 years ago in Journal
