For the past 9 years I have been mostly a seasonal worker, with the bulk of my work occurring in the spring and in the fall. From time to time I have had jobs in my industry during the winter, but it certainly isn’t a guarantee. One of the most …
One of the key reasons I started this blog was to help give advice to young adults about getting their lives established. Across the roughly 150 articles published to date I have addressed a myriad of topics on personal finance, but career development has been largely ignored. Over the coming …
Industrial safety is highly important. Over the last 9 years I have seen several near misses, been involved in one serious on the job injury, that could very well have become a fatality, and heard hundreds of stories of how others have been injured or killed in our line of …
Walmart is set to raise its base pay in 1/3 of its stores due to state increases in the minimum wage. Although many new employees will see a pay hike, people who are already earning over minimum wage will be unaffected. This creates a “pay compression” between entry level jobs …