Career Advice, Finance, Money Tips
61. Financial Advice - Living Pay Check to Pay Check?
While many Americans are making OK money and doing seemingly well, many are living beyond their means, which means they have to live paycheck to paycheck. Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini tells you why many Americans are being forced to live paycheck to paycheck.
62. How to Ask for Assistance
Some people have a lot of trouble asking others for help. But you can be a strong, independent person and still need help from time to time. Advice expert columnist April Masini offers advice on how you can ask for help in various situations.
63. Tips for Buying a Car Online
You can get everything online, so why not a car? The Internet can be a useful tool for buying a new vehicle, but with such a large, expensive purchase, buyers have to take extra precautions. Advice expert April Masini gives tips for buying a car online.
64. Hiring Teen Workers
Teens can be a great resource to staff local businesses, but bosses and managers need to recognize that things are different for teens than their adult workers. Advice expert April Masini gives tips to one business owner who is thinking of hiring teens.
65. Summer Job Ideas
The job hunt isn't restricted to adults looking for their next career: teenagers need jobs too! They often get little guidance on what types of jobs would suit them best, and they need to think about it, since they'll be spending lots of hours doing it. Best-selling author and advice columnist April Masini gives tips for finding the perfect summer jobs.
66. How to Switch to The Green Life
Environmentalism: an important issue, but what can you do about it? Lots, says advice expert April Masini. Going green in your home is easy if you follow her secrets to changing your lifestyle. Plus, get tips on throwing a green party to get your friends into it as well!
67. Career Advice - Workplace Stress
Sometimes, it seems that the more stressed we are, the more pressure we're under to appear perfect--just adding to the stress! One frazzled reader asks why, and advice expert April Masini tells her, and reminds her why stress can sometimes be good!
68. Career Advice - Taking Sick Days
Illness strikes everyone differently. Some people bounce out of bed with a cold while others would rather hide under the sheets for a week. But how sick is too sick to come into work? One manager recently got that question from an employee, and asks advice expert April Masini for help in responding.
69. Career Advice - Drugs at Work
Medical marijuana is being legalized in several states, and is causing a whole host of issues for the workplace. Is it OK to allow medical marijuana into the workplace? How should it be handled? Advice expert April Masini tackles these questions for one H.R. professional.
70. Money Tips - Impulse Spending
Grandma and grandpa may be on a limited budget for most of the year, but when the grandkids come to visit for the Summer, the spoiling starts and the spending gets out of control. How can the reduce their impulse buys? Advice expert April Masini gives them some tips.
71. Banking on Disaster?
Disasters: they're a part of our lives today, post-Katrina and 9/11, more than ever. And wherever there is widespread interest, there is widespread industry. Why is the disaster preparedness industry so popular? Advice expert April Masini explains.
72. 10 Money Saving Tips for Playing Neighborhood Hostess
You're the mom with the best popsicles, the biggest yard, a swimming pool. You make lemonade and you're home to supervise your kids all day. So the rest of the neighbors start sending kids to you. Suddenly, you're running the neighborhood's free daycare. It's an easy way to get your summer spoiled entirely. If you're the coolest mom on the block, advice expert April Masini has some tips for avoiding summer burnout.
73. Career Advice - Religion at Work
Does a cross belong in the workplace? What if it's in your personal space? This reader wants to hang one in his cubicle, but his co-workers say no. Advice expert April Masini gives him tips for deciding on what level of religion is acceptable in the workplace.
74. Relationship Advice - Office Party Wife
How you present yourself as a wife, could actually have an impact on your husband's job. According to dating and relationship advice expert April Masini, "A wife tells a client or an employer a lot about an employee. She is an extension of her husband. The woman he chooses to spend his life with speaks volumes about him." Read on to get April's relationship tips and advice for wives.
75. Office Summer Fashion Trends
Your summer weekend wear and your summer office attire should definitely not be the same. But what's appropriate for work during the hot summer months? Advice columnist and best-selling author April Masini offers her top five summer dress dos and don'ts for the office.
76. Career Advice - Time Management Tips
Does it seem like time is never on your side? You may simply need some ideas for how you can best manage the time you have. Read advice expert and columnist April Masini's top 5 tips to time management and you'll be amazed by how much you can get done!
77. Tips for Getting A Summer Job
Students today are pushed more and more to be prepared before they go to college with a resume of internships and office jobs. While many of these jobs turn out to be incredible learning experiences, there are sure signs of jobs to avoid. Advice expert April Masini offers tips and secrets to finding the right summer job for a college student.
78. Child's Career Day
You've been invited to talk to your child's class for Career Day. You're excited to show support for your child and be proud of what you do, but it's important to be careful of what you say when your children are still young. From explaining the ins and outs of your job to first graders to the souvenirs one brings to paint a realistic picture of your job, talking on Career Day can be a memorable moment. Advice columnist April Masini gives expert secrets to the perfect Career Day.
79. Career Advice - Workplace Bullies
Most people have been bullied at some point in their life, but what happens when you're being bullied as an adult? Relationship advice expert April Masini explains how bullying can impact office relationships and how you can respond to bullying.
80. Interview Tips - Video Resume?
Everyone's looking for a way to make themselves stand out in the job hunt, and the latest trend is video resumes. But are they too much, or do they do the job of making you a stand-out candidate? Advice expert April Masini gives you the scoop.
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