Posts Tagged ‘Time Management’
A fascinating discussion . . . and advice. As Gary told his employee, “try to do a couple of things that feel uncomfortable. It’s always stretching yourself.”
My consistent counsel to college interns throughout the my professional career was to dual track — have a professional career. But also develop something in addition that could be a financial safety valve,if necessary.
I cautioned these young individuals, at the front of their career, “you might be excited about your career choice now. But when you’re in your 30’s, with a spouse, kids, car and house payments, etc., you don’t want to look in the mirror in the morning and tell yourself how much your hate your job.” Because at that point, the options may be few.
It’s never too late to develop that second option. Seek out the advice of somebody you trust, with demonstrated financial success. And get at it!
Click here >> People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35
“The 9-to-5 Workweek Is Dead. Here’s What’s Next” is the title of a recent article in Inc.com.
As somebody who has worked on my own home business for some time, a flexible schedule is one of the reasons that I settled into a home business.
I control my commute (none!) and I control my schedule.
I transitioned to my home business after a 30 year career, commuting to jobs where schedules were anything but flexible.
While the 9 to 5 work week may be dying, it’s still alive and kicking in many offices. If not most offices.
What do the entrants into the professional, office world think about flexible schedules?
- 29% of college students think being able to work remotely with a flexible schedule is a right, not a privilege.
- 66% of Millennials say having a boss who doesn’t support flexible schedules has factored into their decision to leave a job.
- 72% of working parents say that people who work flex hours have fewer pay/promotional opportunities.
What do you think? Do you work in a job with a flexible schedule? If not, do you wish you could? If you had a flexible work schedule, what would that mean to you?
Drop me a note at Greg at OnlineMarketIncome.com I’d love to hear from you.
Click here for the Inc.com article “The 9-to-5 Workweek Is Dead. Here’s What’s Next”.
Matt Morris is a leader in the industry. He’s a great trainer, with great tips. Here is his latest. Learn a lessong from him!
I consider myself a reasonable smart person. But I did something pretty foolish with my primary email address this week.
My business runs on email . . . Vital . . .
When I have to delete my primary account for a couple of days . . . and I wasn’t sure I could get it back . . . that’s not good.
Here’s the story . . . so you can avoid my mistake.
I received an email from my credit card company asking if the recent charges were legitimate. Four of the five were. One for $1200 wasn’t.
First, I called the credit card company to cancel the card. Hopefully, this transaction was cancelled before the crooks got the tablet shipped to them.
The credit card company described a payment to PayPal. I have a PayPal account (PayPal is another story for a later day), so I checked to see if there was activity in my account. There was no activity.
Alert number one that something was wrong: Credit card payment to PayPal but no activity in my PayPal account.
I then noticed an email arrived from eBay with the description of the tablet and the eBay seller. Yet, when I checked my eBay account, there was no activity and no tablet transaction listed.
Alert number two that something was wrong: Email from “eBay” on transaction that was not in my eBay account. This is the spoof email. And email designed to look legitimate but containing nasty links and lurkers.
A smart person would have stopped at that point. But, not me. I clicked on the “view transaction” in the spoof email.
Once I clicked, I told the hackers they had a live fish on the hook. A good, valid, working email address. The email address they sent the spoof email to.
Within five minutes, my inbox was flooded. Probably 300 messages in 15-20 minutes.
The hackers took my email address and mass submitted registrations to hundreds of websites. A good number of them required “click to confirm your registration” links, so those will fall to the wayside. However, there appeared to be some that went straight through for registration.
I hope my wife understands I’m not looking for a Russian wife . . .
GoDaddy was excellent through most of this.
They had me delete my account for a couple of days. They counseled that likely the hackers would move on to some other foolish person (my description, not theirs!), once they realized I cancelled my account and they were receiving bounce backs.
After two days, I started the email address back up, and as they counseled, the hacker emails had stopped. I’m watching cautiously.
This may not apply to you, but if you’re using a hosting account for email, you might want to check with the company about their retention and retrieval process. GoDaddy keeps email on their server for 14 days, even if the email account is deleted.
Moral of the story. If you get word of a compromised credit card, and then get a “confirming” email from the online vendor (eBay, Amazon, PayPal), don’t walk into the trap like I did. Log in separately and check your accounts. If you can’t find activity, the alarms should go off!
