Posted June 10th, 2008 by Susan Gunelius in Guest Posts
Today Women On Business has a guest post from author Danielle Weinstock who includes an excerpt from her new book, Can an Elephant Curtsy on Cue? Life Lessons Learned on a Film Set for Women in Business. This is a great book to help women in business be inspired about their jobs or find the right job that inspires them. Without further ado, following is Danielle Weinstock’s guest post…
What is the perfect job? If you could create the ultimate position for yourself, what would it be? Whether you have to work, or choose to work, time at the office will represent a considerable portion of your time on earth. Indeed, the average person will spend a whopping 110,000 hours – over six and half million minutes – making a living! Minutes that cannot be recovered. But, please, not as a lawyer or hairdresser.
Unfortunately, we all too often allow circumstances to determine our lives. We graduate from high school or college and take the first position offered. We labor for years in a career that does not utilize our skills or challenge us. We rationalize where we are and what we are doing. We justify our situation by saying we are content. After all, the money is good. Why change now? What if nothing better is out there?
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Posted May 8th, 2008 by Susan Gunelius in Guest Posts, Work at Home/Telecommute, Work-Home Life
Today on Women On Business, I’m happy to welcome guest blogger Jacquelyn Butler of JackiesBizBlog.com who brings us the following guest post, “Raising Entrepreneurial Children.”
I recently was reading a post on a forum about raising children to be entrepreneurs and I was grateful for the fact, that I, myself as a parent do NOT want to raise my child to think that she has to go and work for the Corporate world in order to make a living.
For those of us who were not raised to be independent from working outside the home, we now have that opportunity to mold our children into thinking for themselves and living their lives passionately and freely to do whatever it is they are set out to do. Educate them not only through school or what is right or wrong, but educate them to actually live their lives free from 9-5, time away from family and the morning commute. Continue reading »
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