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morgandawn) wrote2009-04-05 11:05 am
morgandawn) wrote2009-04-05 11:05 am
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Money Links From The NY Times
Working on taxes today, so I am grabbing random links from this week's NY Times money newsletter
Follow-up to last week's article - Friends/Family Laid Off? How Can I Help? "You can read some of the scores of inspiring (and dispiriting) reader comments on the Web version of last week’s column. We’ve also sorted some of the most thoughtful e-mail replies by topic in an interactive viewer linked from the version of this column at nytimes.com/yourmoney." Full article here
Putting Yourself Out There on a Shelf to Buy. "Job seekers need more than simple résumés. They need to brand themselves, and a social networking site is a place to start."
Follow-up to last week's article - Friends/Family Laid Off? How Can I Help? "You can read some of the scores of inspiring (and dispiriting) reader comments on the Web version of last week’s column. We’ve also sorted some of the most thoughtful e-mail replies by topic in an interactive viewer linked from the version of this column at nytimes.com/yourmoney." Full article here
Putting Yourself Out There on a Shelf to Buy. "Job seekers need more than simple résumés. They need to brand themselves, and a social networking site is a place to start."
I learned during our last recession, that you don't find work by mailing off your resume to open job listings, applying to jobs online and showing up to job fairs. You have to do more.
When the Stork Carries a Pink Slip. "More discrimination charges are being filed, but pregnant women and new mothers have limited legal protection against layoffs." Disabled people - contact your local Center For Independent Living or disability rights group for a legal referral if you've been laid off and you suspect your employer was using your disability to claim you were a poor worker.
Financial Planning, Amid a Layoff. "This week, Greg Merlino, a certified financial planner with Ameriway Financial, will answer selected reader questions on financial planning for people who have lost their jobs or are worried that they might."
Getting a Health Policy When You’re Already Sick. "Reform is promised, but for now consumers with pre-existing conditions must still struggle for coverage." Most important - avoid - at all cost - a lapse in coverage. Three cheers for the new COBRA subsidy.
Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression. "As many Americans seek ways to save, people who lived through the Depression tell stories of life without luxuries." We think we need more than we need. I've tried redoing our budget several times and realize that, like the majority of Americans, I don't truly understand wants/needs. So chant along with me: Food, housing, transportation, utilities (heat/electricity/water/phone), and health care insurance. That's it.
You can sign up for the weekly newsletter here
When the Stork Carries a Pink Slip. "More discrimination charges are being filed, but pregnant women and new mothers have limited legal protection against layoffs." Disabled people - contact your local Center For Independent Living or disability rights group for a legal referral if you've been laid off and you suspect your employer was using your disability to claim you were a poor worker.
Financial Planning, Amid a Layoff. "This week, Greg Merlino, a certified financial planner with Ameriway Financial, will answer selected reader questions on financial planning for people who have lost their jobs or are worried that they might."
Getting a Health Policy When You’re Already Sick. "Reform is promised, but for now consumers with pre-existing conditions must still struggle for coverage." Most important - avoid - at all cost - a lapse in coverage. Three cheers for the new COBRA subsidy.
Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression. "As many Americans seek ways to save, people who lived through the Depression tell stories of life without luxuries." We think we need more than we need. I've tried redoing our budget several times and realize that, like the majority of Americans, I don't truly understand wants/needs. So chant along with me: Food, housing, transportation, utilities (heat/electricity/water/phone), and health care insurance. That's it.
You can sign up for the weekly newsletter here
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Maybe I'm being grumpy, but I'm not comfortable with mashing up my different interests. There is the issue of how searches would pop up? Of course that may be happening whether I realize it or not, anyway.
I don't comment much about my work on lj and I like that separation of church and state. I's mostly because whining isn't helpful to anybody concerned, but it's also because sharing details where somebody who does go hunting could find it would be a bad idea.
I'm sure a lot of older slash fans are very cautious about mingling information that would make stuffed-shirt supervisors and co-workers unhappy. You don't have to be a rapist or bulimic or have a weird fetish to give some folks all kinds of reasons to hassle you and get rid of you. A lot of employers are not as hang-loose as the computer industry had the luxury to be back in the Golden Era of Great Killer Jobs and Shortage of Skilled Personnel.
Which is where you get into privacy issues. If you really don't want people from work or a potential employer tracking you down in Facebook or Twitter, than you shouldn't be doing it.
But doing nothing is no good either?
Which leaves you with the stated demand to be authentic at the same time you're trying to present a nice clean facade that will pass with right-wing nutjobs?
Besides that, I suspect some of the networking-is-good folks would say you shouldn't be wasting time on anything that doesn't forward your brand, and hobbies that make other people look at you funny are just a bad idea in general. Makes you look obsessive, ya know?
Whut, me??!?