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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

12 Steps to Changing Your Career in a Slow Economy | Articles - Employaid ™ - Employaid ™

Ok, the economy has officially tanked and you already know job security is about as real as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. You feel it's time to do something else with your life, but you're not sure if this is the best time to change careers. Well, guess what: there's no perfect time to make that perfect move, so don't wait for some promising sign to spur you into action.   If you want a new career, go for it. And here are twelve steps to help make your career change a little easier.

1. Do you really want to change careers? Or are you just ticked off today? A career change is serious business. Only undergo one after careful consideration. We all have terrible stretches at work that make us want to resign, but they pass…and come back…and pass…well, you get the picture. But this is different from being totally fed up with your career choice. Take some time off your current job and recharge. If you return to work feeling the same dread, apathy, or frustration as before, maybe a career change is right for you. But only you can decide that.

2. Take control. You've decided it's time for a new career path but you're kind of scared. That's understandable: Changing careers takes guts. And most people only get the necessary chutzpah when they're out of a job. But why let dire circumstances dictate your career moves? You're in charge. Be proactive. Don't wait for things to happen to you. Make them happen for you.

3. Be practical. You want to herd sheep, make designer kites, or create energy drinks that cure the common cold? Hey, good luck. But make sure you can make a decent living, that's all.

4. Be committed.   Don't be one of those people who set out to change careers, and then give up when things get a little tough. You have to be determined to make this work. So promise yourself: You'll accept nothing short of success—no matter what setbacks come your way. Remember, you can overcome any obstacle. Just have faith.

5. Figure out what you want to do. Research, research, research. Get on the Internet and start learning as much as you can about the careers you're interested in. Read relevant trade papers and magazines. Immerse yourself. Find out the necessary skills and qualifications related to your possible career choices. Of course, there's only so much you can learn online. The next step…

6. Hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Get out there and find people who are doing what you want to do. Talk to them about the negative and positive aspects of that career. Find out the truth: the good, the bad, the ugly. Tell them not to pull any punches or sugarcoat anything. Also, ask if you can spend some time observing what they do during a typical day. Now's the time to find out if this new career is right for you. In addition, the contacts you make during this time may help you down the road.

7. Figure out how you're going to do it. So you've decided on a career choice. But don't expect to start herding those sheep right away. You have to do a little planning first.   How you will support yourself during your career change? Will you remain at your current job until you save enough money to keep you going for several months, then quit and embark on your new adventure? Or will you try out your new career first by freelancing or consulting on the side before making that full-time leap of faith? It's up to you.

8. Learn how to do it.   If you've already mastered the job skills related to your new career, you're ready to go live. Otherwise, find out the educational or training requirements of your career choice and prepare to get up to speed. For example, if you want to be a doctor or a lawyer, you'll need an advanced degree from a college or university. If you want to write, you may have to take classes or attend workshops. If you want to fix elevators or air conditioners, you'll probably have to go to trade school. No matter what you want to do, just be prepared to learn what you must to be successful.

9. Oh, yeah, do it.   Look for opportunities to gain work experience within your new career. Try internships, apprenticeships, volunteering, or temping. These are great ways to get your feet wet and get a taste of what the new career is like.

10. Be a little selfish.   Can you get some free job training at your current position that'll help you with your new career? Hey, if it'll make you a better employee at your present job, there's no wrongdoing on your part. Also, try to gain some on-the-job experience relevant to your future career change. For example, if you want to be a writer, seek out opportunities to write at your current position. In other words: be a little selfish and look after your own interests.

11. Act the part. You're now officially a career changer! Learn the jargon. Meet people in your new industry through networking events. Also, seek out industry contacts (you know, the ones you made in step 6) to help you with your job search efforts. Hey, you're a player now!

12. Stay positive. You may have little support from family and friends. Some may think you're nuts for trying to do something totally different. Or believe you're a fool for walking away from ""job security."" But so what? It's your life. You're responsible for your own happiness. And hopefully, they'll come around.

So there you have it: twelve steps to help you make one of the most critical transitions in your life. Hey, but don't let the magnitude of changing careers stress you out. This is truly an exciting time for you. Enjoy the ride!

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Behaviors of People - Types of People

The moment we recognize the pattern's behavior with our conscious mind, we have brought light to it. It can no longer operate in the dark, outside our awareness. We can then allow the feelings underneath the pattern to come up so we can acknowledge them, feel them, and release them.

This is a list that has been growing for some time. It began as a simple attempt to identify behaviors in us that are part of a pattern acting out. It's by no means finished.

1. Comparing myself to another person
2. Making sure someone knows his/her mistake
3. Being "Nice"
4. Needing to prove something to someone
5. Trying to defend myself
6. Seeking approval from someone
7. Saying "yes" when I don't really want to
8. Speaking crossly to someone
9. Not listening to someone who is talking to me, but instead planning what I'm going to say next.
10. Talking about someone in a negative way
11. Over-indulging myself
12. Neglecting myself
13. Adding something in or leaving something out, exaggerating or distorting, when telling a story.
14. Complimenting in an overboard manner
15. Getting pushy or pressuring someone
16. Doing something for someone for a payoff, such as being seen as kind or good, rather than just to meet their needs.
17. Being sarcastic.
18. Hurrying, rushing, being frantic.
19. Laughing at someone, not with them.
20. Being depressed, silent, moody, and expecting others to read my mind.
21. Being consistently late.
22. Hiding my anger.
23. Arguing.
24. Worrying.
25. Joking about somebody who isn't present, re: their weaknesses.
26. Sucking up / brown-nosing
27. Being "impressed" with someone.
28. Putting someone down, in my thoughts or to others.
29. Thinking about how someone will react or respond to my "neat" or "good" behavior.
30. Being silent and waiting for someone to ask me what's wrong.
31. Hiding my hurt and being tough, brave, or above it all.
32. Suffering or enduring in silence, but secretly feeling like I'm "better than" because of it.
33. Deferring the truth of what I think, feel or want.
34. Equalizing, i.e.: if I made a mistake, then I look for the mistake in others.
35. Looking down on or hating any group.
36. Pitying someone (secretly feeling "better than").
37. Looking for a distraction, fun, thrill, or fear experience.
38. Endlessly making plans.
39. Responding to my plans being thwarted or delayed by pushing harder with anger, or making more plans.
40. Being conscious of (or obsessing on) my feelings of confidence, security, superiority.
41. Being conscious of (or obsessing on) my feelings of lack, inability, insecurity, and inferiority.
42. Being "sweet".
43. Being a "good" student, mother, friend, helper, do-gooder.
44. Being "teacher's pet", or best helper for the leader/guru.
45. Believing and acting as if I don't need anyone.
46. Worshipping someone.
47. Waiting to be saved.
48. Trying to save others.
49. Trying to impress someone.
50. Avoiding things because I'm afraid, rather than just feel my fear.
51. Doing rash or dangerous things in an attempt to push past or control my fear, rather than just feel my fear.
52. Doing anything because I'm afraid, rather than just feel my fear.
53. Feeling like "I can't live without" someone or something
54. Being closed minded about something.
55. Acting from a preconceived "should", either for myself or someone else.
56. Showing only my "Sunday Self".
57. Picking a fight.
58. Having to be first or most healed.
59. Having to be worst or in the most pain.
60. Being accident prone, constantly being injured, OR injuring myself.
61. Being jealous and possessive.
62. Trying to get vengeance.
63. Being clingy, desperate or demanding.
64. Acting different in the presence of someone with power, authority, wealth, importance or beauty.
65. Being "two-faced", acting one way with one person, and differently with another person.

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Liberty is incompatible with taxation. This despite that famous saying by Oliver Wendell Holmes that "Taxation is the price we pay for civilization." In fact, taxation is a most uncivilized way of obtaining funds, given that it boils down to nothing less than extortion.
Just think of it: You go to work for some company and are told you will receive a certain wage but actually receive but a fraction of what you have been offered. Why? Because a substantial portion is sent not to you, who earned it, but to other people. Why? Because if it isn't sent to them, they will declare the company criminal and sic the police on it.
So, the company is coerced to take part of your earnings and divert it to those who have this power to make them do so. If this isn't exactly like what the Mafia does when it engages in extortion I don't know what is. Yes, some of the funds extorted will be used for purposes that may actually benefit you and some who are extorted don't protest. But maybe that's true about whom the Mafia extorts, as well. And it doesn't matter because what is wrong with extortion isn't what the money is used for but how it is obtained, namely, coercively.
Often it is Robin Hood who is held up as the role model for justifying taxation: Didn't he "steal" from the rich to "give" to the poor? Well, not, not really.
In the original version of the legend, Robin Hood did just the opposite: He stole from those who stole from the poor and returned the loot to the rightful owners. In those days the upper classes, from the king to all his cronies, routinely engaged in extortion. They disguised this, however, with the phony claim that everything belongs to the king and his cronies. Yes, monarchs and those who rationalized monarchy spun this fantasy and managed to sell it to the people that they where the rightful owners "of the realm," that they had a "divine right" to rule us. This way when the bulk of the country went to work on the farm or wherever, they had to pay "rent" to the monarch and his cronies.
Of course, if I live in your apartment, I pay you rent. It's your apartment, after all, so you have it coming to you. But what if you got your apartment by conquest, by robbing a bunch of people of what belongs to them? That is mostly how the monarchs got to rule the realm, by conquest. By all rights it is the folks who were working in the realm--on the land and elsewhere--who actually owned that realm, the monarchs being the phony, pretend owners, nothing better. But since they managed to bamboozle a great many powerless folks into believing that they did own the realm, the "rent" had to be paid.
Since, however, the American Revolution put the lie to this monarchical ruse, the institution of taxation could not be passed off as some kind of legitimate rent taking. That major political change showed once and for all that monarchs were sophisticated thugs who ran roughshod over the rest of the people, who violated their basic natural rights all over the place, by robbing and conscripting them.
Yet, because of the idea that we do need to have our rights protected by some means that involve costs, taxation remained a feature of the society that followed the change from monarchy to constitutional republicanism.
Not a lot of taxation, mind you, because it seemed pretty clear to the Founders that taxation is in fact extortion. But they didn't see some other, legitimate, morally acceptable way of collecting the funds needed to pay government for its service of securing our rights. Yet, they might have.
There are other ways governments could be paid for their service of securing our rights that couldn't exist without legal protection. Contract fees, not taxation, could solve the problem.
But this alternative, legitimate method wasn't in the cards following the revolution, so taxation remained, albeit in a rather modest form. In time, however, it got out of hand.
After all, if the Mafia just took a tiny fraction of income from its victims, most would probably put up with it all rather than to resist. But when the amount moves on to 25 to 70 %, it turns into big time extortion. And that is how we stand now where taxation has become big time extortion.
Some respond to this by noting that in other countries taxation is much higher. Sure, because they are even farther from having lived up to the spirit and letter of the revolution that America experienced; namely, removing power from government and returning it to where it belongs, the individual citizens. After all, it is America that is the leader of the free world, with a lot of other countries, including most of those in Western Europe, way behind. At least that is how it was supposed to happen.
Instead, however, the American Revolution was betrayed and the U.S.A. has undergone a reactionary period in which it reverted, substantially, to the policies of earlier systems of government. This Europeanization of America is a shame, a damned shame. And it needs to be identified as such before it has any chance of being arrested.
The first step is to acknowledge, unapologetically, that the institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.
Tibor Machan, adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute, teaches at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. You may send him MAIL and view his Mises.org Daily Articles Archive. See also The Political Economy of Taxation: The Frederick L. Maier Archive.