3 Jobs That Can Survive The Recession
I have been seeing those hot careers in a recession articles over on MSN and Yahoo. They give a list of hot careers in a recession and then give links to where you can study for those careers. By the time you are finished with the training, the recession will be over and the economy will be fundamentally different than it is today. As I looked at them, I got my own ideas for jobs to get you through the recession and I have compiled a list of them. While these may not be careers in the traditional sense, they will see you through the recession and help you make more money.
1. Flea Market Vendor. Value is a value and these days people are looking for values anywhere they can find it. A great place is at the flea market. Flea marketing is a cheap family activity where you can discover items and products you never though existed. It doesn’t cost much to find some great products and sell them in a flea market. While that’s traditional, you can modernize it by making an entire site with everything you sell on it and giving out the address to any and all potential customers so that your 2 days of work will translate into 7 days of income.
2. Freelance Small Business Bookkeeper. You might already have the skills to keep books, but with a good open source program like Gnucash, you can handle the books of any business with just a little training. Many companies need help keeping their books nowadays and may not be able to pay the expenses of a more well trained accountant. No worries, you can take on this responsibility not just for one company but several. With your laptop, you can go from business to business taking care of their bookkeeping needs. You could even become a notary public and offer even more services.
3. Freelance Marketing Consultant. Every company is looking to increase sales and profits in an economic downturn. The tried and true way to increase sales is to increase marketing efforts. With so much marketing on the internet these days, internet marketing offers the best chances of marketing success. This is why a freelance marketing consultant can visit with companies and give them marketing advice to help them achieve success. A freelance marketing consultant can go to small businesses that have an acute need for their expertise. It’s win-win situation for each party.
These are just three ideas, I hope they are getting your brains working about the massive opportunities available now.
New Employment Site
I am currently working a remake of a tefl jobs site. I am trying to create a place where people can upload resumes and have employers find them. It will be a complement to Great TEFL jobs. I am just looking for some feedback on what you would expect to find in an employment site? What kind of features would you like to see? What kind of features would you find most beneficial in your job search?
If you have got ideas of what you’d like to see in a jobs site, I’d love to hear them and see if I can add them to my newest site.
Find A Great TEFL Job
I don’t really publicize it as much as I should, but slowly but surely Great TEFL Jobs, a site I started up last year, is starting to make inroads in the TEFL jobs market. It’s beginning to get solid visitor numbers and it is starting to get job comments.
See, Great TEFL Jobs has a special premise. It allows people to comment on the TEFL jobs advertised. When people are able to leave comments about a job, they feel like they have a way to help other job seekers. For job seekers, they have a chance to get the straight dope before they take on a job.
I would say that the site is a success and with the planned changes that are coming on the site, it should get even better.
Management Problems
If you have a school, office, store or some other sort of business, you probably have employees. The more employees you have, the more you have to be on your toes for dissension in the ranks. Keeping morale high can be tough if you are not managing your employees well. See, many employee problems are really management problems.
As management problems begin to grow, morale begins to fall among employees. There are a couple of ways to stop a decline in morale. First, you can deal with the management issues and simultaneously show your appreciation for employees. The second way is to threaten your employees if they get out of line.
Why is that so many businesses choose the way of threats? Take TEFL Schools for example. If you don’t like what your school admin is doing, they will threaten you with no pay or even deportation if you don’t toe the line. They’ll even go to the point of setting apart employees to be their lackeys who will do everything they can to get you fired.
Why do people subject themselves to working at these kind of employers?
Dust Your Sandles Off
Filed under: Jobs, Personal Growth, Protect Yourself, View from the Watchtower
I think many of us can feel very downtrodden after experiencing a bad experience in a job. It’s not unusual, especially when you give everything you’ve got to a job that then spits you out like you are worthless. It’s just not right. I think there’s some debate on where the blame lies, but if you let their bad actions affect you in a negative way, then you are at fault.
You may not have the ability to change the way they wronged you, but you do have the ability to change your own reaction. If you have taken precautions and you have done right by Heavenly Father, then there is no reason to take it upon you. In fact, that’s what the evil one would like you to do. The evil one wants you to take that anger upon you and let it dwell inside of you.
Don’t take upon the anger, dust your sandles off and move on. Do warn others,report that you were wronged to the Watchman on the Tower so others can avoid the pit. But then move on, don’t dwell on the wrong. Don’t let it affect your relationships. If the wrong is affecting you, then you are at fault.