Why do we all play the lottery when it’s been proven that winning the lottery won’t make us any happier? Lottery winners are no happier six months after they win the lottery than they were before they one. Many of them are considerably unhappier. I wrote a few days ago about how money isn’t evil. […]
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For those of you willing to work and still looking for a home business idea, here are ten stories to inspire you. They all have an online presence and they include: Making charms for charm bracelets ($2.5 milllion/year) Putting beads on tank-tops ($1 million/year) Referral business for home contractors ($100,000/year) Domain naming service ($25/domain name)
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I was working from home last week (sitting on the sofa working on my laptop) when the cleaning people showed up. When they asked where Caleb was I said "at daycare, I’m working." To which they replied "is that what you are doing!" I see a lot of websites with lots of traffic all talking
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What do you want to be remembered by? James Gray is currently missing at sea and the article in the New York Times (which reads like an obituary!) talks all about what a great researcher he is at Microsoft. While I’m sure he’d like to be recognized for his work at Microsoft, I’m sure that’s
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Speaking of unusual careers. This woman picks lice eggs out of (mostly) children’s hair. She charges $100/hr and it can take her 2-3 hours of painstakingly detailed work to completely remove the eggs from a head of hair. In case you are wondering why you can’t just use one of those shampoos … the shampoos
Career Change � The Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes of the Day for December 28: “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you’ll have more success than you could possibly have
While I was on maternity leave I decided I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. Most of my friends work so they weren’t available to do things with in the middle of the day and the few that didn’t work were pretty busy living their lives. So what was I
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A good observation from The Happiness Project on how to be more energetic and how it will affect others around you. Energy (or lack of energy) is contagious. If you feel energetic, you’ll help the people around you feel energetic, too. And that makes them feel happier, too. In fact, studies show that being an
The New York Times has an essay about young doctors dressing inappropriately, showing too much skin, wearing casual clothes and in general, not wearing traditional professional doctor attire. When Young Doctors Strut Too Much of Their Stuff – New York Times. They sited studies that showed that doctors wearing a suit and white lab coat
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What would you do if you were guaranteed a fixed salary but you had to do some job? Say you’d make a $100K a year but you had to work. What would you do? Would you stay at your current job? Become a teacher? A tour guide? CEO of a company? Or a night watchman
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