Debt Benefits

Here’s a new and different idea: Companies offering debt-related benefits, as opposed to the more traditional emphasis placed on retirement and other things. Because yes, it is distracting (remarkable that link is from 2002, when the good times still rolled and only a few of us were stressed out about the glaringly obvious housing [...]

Aversion, Phobia… Something Like That

Have you gotten more telephone averse with age? This is something I’ve written about before myself, or close to it, in reference to phone phobia. Even in times of no creditors, my heart leaps up into the roof of my mouth and addles my brain when I hear the phone ring, in large [...]

Tips to Become a Failure at Work

These sound about right.

Zen Habits

Overcoming resistance and getting things done, also from my old bookmarks.

Speaking of Pricing & Value of Time

Interesting Erica Douglass post on being worth more than you think, setting a baseline and sticking to it. I’ve been having related thoughts lately, exactly the opposite of where I had been and could be taking my attitude in this time of being beyond broke and completely without paying work. While there’s consideration [...]

Thumb Rules Worth Knowing

Good post on rules of thumb, some of which are familiar to me. I didn’t know the interruptions thing had a number attached, but I knew it was bad. I can seldom do much of substance without being free of interruptions. And I have to keep my self-sourced interruptions under control. [...]

Imposter Syndrome

I’ve always had trouble battling imposter syndrome, which ties into my trouble charging a lot and accepting too little income, as I discussed with the recruiter yesterday. Not that it helps for what’s a good income to change so dramatically over time. What was a great income in 1978 is live with your [...]

Recruiter

Just talked with a recruiter who apparently found me on Monster.com, and had a very favorable impression of him. I’m not a fit with the specific opening he had in mind, which would have required Foxpro background, but I’m going up to Burlington Monday for the quick get to know you meeting so it’s [...]

Selling Those High Fees

On an amusingly related not to my consulting fees post the other day, here’s a post on how to sell overpriced services. The dressing part feels tongue in cheek, even though it’s tried and true advice I first saw decades ago, and so not me. The part about being right up front is [...]

Consulting Fees

This is good post on determining consulting fees, even if it does date back to January. I famously have trouble with pricing, which may be tied up somewhat with self-esteem and excessive desire to please others on my part, and ironically it’s probably low pricing that’s left me with a lack of business and [...]

Text Messages Private

Apparently text messages are private from employers, per the court.

A Question I’ve Had Myself

How do you convince potential employers you’re not overqualified? I am a person of low expectations at the moment, but with to all appearances amazing background, assuming you’re not of the opinion that self-employed people are lazy scum and not to be hired, as one person who reviewed my resume for me revealed. [...]

Retirement

This is exactly my view of it.

Plastic Resume Surgery

Face lift advice for improving your resume.

Clients… Can’t Live With or Without Them

How you can work with 12 different types of clients.

Telework

With my family situation, type of work, and commuting costs, working from home has been not only much on my mind, but a conscious thing we’re trying to pursue. Sun recently pursued telework in a big way after determining the benefits.

Home Office Tips

Old post of mine and linking elsewhere on home office tips that deserves revisiting, after time has passed and things have changed to make it all the more relevant.