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Monday Meeting

The Monday Meeting: Things I’ve learned

April 12, 2010

Obviously (we would hope) I’ve learned a lot over the past four years. I’ve learned how to write and cite a 5,000 word research paper. I’ve learned how to study for four exams at once. I’ve learned how to stay awake through a three-hour night class. I’ve learned CP style, kind of. I’ve learned how [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Senioritis

April 5, 2010

Senioritis - used to describe the decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students who are nearing the end of their high school, university or grad school career.
Symptoms include:

Chronic Procrastination (Definitely have that, today caps off four days off of work/school for me and yet I still have a million things to do today as I [...]

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TMM Featured Career: Social Media Specialist

March 29, 2010

How many of you have already Tweeted and/or checked Facebook today? I know I have! Between Facebook, Twitter, Blogging - and now the Dailymile, which I just joined this weekend (friend me) - I spend a huge chunk of my free time on social media sites and I love every minute of it!
Well, [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Sharing Finances

March 15, 2010

Staying on last weeks topic of budgeting, let’s talk about how couples go about budgeting and sharing their finances. From what I’ve seen/heard, in the majority of relationships one person tends to be better with money then the other. In some cases they are much better with money and in other cases both parties are [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Budgeting

March 8, 2010

Has anyone seen Til Debt Do Us Part? It’s basically about couples who are living far above their means and are in serious debt. In one case, if they had kept living the way they were living, this one couple would have been over $1 million in debt within three years.
Gail, is a financial analysis/hard-ass who [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Focusing your job search

March 2, 2010

Well, March is upon us (I almost can’t believe it) and for a lot of senior college students the pressure to find a job is building and building.
I saw a line on Ms. Career Girl the other day that was very interesting.
Nicole Crimaldi, the writer and editor of Ms. Career Girl said:
Lack of focus in [...]

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TMM Featured Career: Event Planner

February 22, 2010

Hi guys! Posts may be few and far between this week while I wait for my shiny new laptop to come in the mail (hint: it’s white and very pretty. Oh, and not a PC!) Until then I’m on my mom’s ancient Toshiba and it took me about 45 minutes to do one blog post [...]

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The Monday Meeting: Olympic Edition

February 15, 2010

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So, if you’re anything like me, you spent the majority of the weekend watching the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games (Go Canada). I still cannot get over the fact that they’re not only being hosted in MY country but in MY province! Four hours south of me in a city I’ve been to several times! [...]

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The Monday Meeting: How to negotiate a raise

February 8, 2010

I had a reader request asking me to do a Monday Meeting post on negotiating a higher salary. Since I have no experience with this myself I decided to reach out to the interwebs to get some advice. Of course, they responded!
Here are a few tips that I’ve collected from around the interwebs - reader [...]

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The Monday Meeting: How to get a job; non-traditionally

February 1, 2010

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It’s the digital age; cell phones, computers, social media and email are ruling the world. Everything is going online; including the traditional way of finding a job.
Picture looking for a job 20 - even 10 - years ago. You go around to businesses in town and drop off your PAPER resume. But is that the [...]

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