Attributes of a good cover letter
People are looking for work. The competition is tough. You’ve written your resume and tweeked it to match the job you are looking for (if you haven’t, do that first). DON’T JUST SEND IN THE RESUME. You need to announce yourself first. A good cover letter will will make the reader want to meet you…
Music Wanted
I love music. Thing is, I usually listen to the same songs. Today I found a cover of a song by Bruno Mars. Yeah – that’s what I said. Bruno who? Turns out, this kid is good. Expanding your activities is good for the soul. It’s also good for business. Can anyone recommend other music…
Work Quotes
Good, better, best Never let it rest Until your good is better and your better, best The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. – John Ruskin Even if you are on the right track you will still get run over if you…
Hunter Devin – Day 11
This little guy was born at 6:46 this morning. 7 pounds 5 ounces and 21 inches long. Hunter Devin Milius. My great nephew – welcome to the world. My heart is filled with love. 30 days of pictures with words geared to develop goals, values and such. This is Day 11.
Work today, heard tomorrow
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus So what can I do in the year of 2011 that will make a difference in the years to follow? That’s a pretty deep question. Yesterday I had a conversation with my friend Cruzanne and we talked about what it was like to be women…
Send a Christmas Card to my Dad
My dad has Alzheimers. He doesn’t live at home anymore. He’s safe and sound at the Rehabilitation Center in Hampton Iowa. It’s hard seeing someone you love go on that journey. Slowly, they slip away from you. The world his mind has created is nothing like mine. The experts say to visit his world when…
IRL In Real Life
IRL. It stands for In Real Life. You see it bantered around on social media websites. “We need to meet in IRL.” “I know her from IRL.” Mitch Joel wrote today about how he doesn’t like that term. He says: When you’re online, are you fake? Is your online avatar simply that: a representation of…
Top 5 Links from 2010
Thanks to Google analytics I can find out what were the top 5 links visited on my page this year. The results proved to be interesting. Number 1 was a blog I wrote for a group writing project sponsored by www.middlezonemusings.com I talked about Alzheimers. That was back in March. In May my dad went…
How to make a difference
Erin lives in Lincoln Park. She works from home. Every morning she walks two blocks to Dunkin Donuts for her coffee and conversation with “da boys”. One day last month Erin was standing in the rain waiting for the light to change. A young woman in her car was at the light in the right…
Learning from our kids: Day 10
Many years ago, I was the wrestling statistician for my high school wrestling team. I really liked wrestling. We had a great team and took many players to state. This year, some 30 years later, I have a friend who is wrestling. And she’s a girl. 15 years old, 103 pounds and full of spunk. …