Monday, August 5, 2013

Does the Job Fit Your Lifestyle?

As the job market begins to regain momentum, job seekers can become—once again—more selective about the choices they make. For instance, lifestyle compatibility can once more be a factor for accepting or rejecting a job opportunity.
In addition to the normal questions you ask yourself when a job opportunity arises, questions such as:
Is changing jobs the right thing to do?
What will it be like working for a new employer?
Will I fit in or not?
Is this the work I want to do forever?
You should add this one important consideration that could easily influence your responses: does the job and employer fit my lifestyle?
Lifestyles
Many people fail to consider how a job or workplace culture might fit or conflict with a lifestyle. The reasons for not considering this subject often include the following:
  • Thinking that your lifestyle has little to do with your job or career.
  • Believing that your lifestyle is defined as the time away from the workplace.
  • Being convinced that employers don’t care about your lifestyle and how it may relate to your workplace performance.
These are but the tip of the iceberg. New graduates and those returning to the workforce after long absences tend to overlook the importance of work-life relationship more than veteran employees, who realize the role that jobs play in improving or conflicting with your lifestyle.
Lifestyle considerations:
  • Do you want more or less structure in your job
  • Do you require job flexibility, because of child care, youth sports coaching, or elder parent care time commitments
  • During the interview, do you observe what appears to be an upbeat, positive and comfortable workplace—one that’s compatible with your personality and work style
  • Do you get the feeling that the job and company will fit into a preferred lifestyle
  • Is working remotely a possibility—and if so, is this something you would like to consider for some or all of the time
  • Would you consider a pay for performance position or a salaried job—or both
  • What single feature about your job and lifestyle is most important to you
  • Would you rather interact with people face-to-face or do you prefer working alone at the workplace or in a home-office
  • Will your employer be flexible if you need to leave for an unexpected reason—if you have children or elderly parents in your care, this is a real possibility
  • Is there an expectation that you will be regularly working late
  • Does this employer have a rigid vacation policy, or a more flexible PTO as-needed policy
There are no one-size-fits-all answers to these questions—except the honest responses you give to yourself.
You can modify some of these or similar considerations to prepare questions for your interviewer. You can then compare the interviewer’s answers with your own. If they match, the job may indeed fit your lifestyle. Should they be vastly different, you should investigate the job and the company further before you accept or deny a job offer.
There is a popular book with a title that says it all: Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood, by Marsha Sinetar. While the book has its critics, it has changed many lives since its original publication in the 1980s. The premise is to follow your passions for something and use this passion as the foundation of your career.
Critics’ comments usually involve logic above all else. If your goal is to amass wealth and you are the CEO of a large company--and you love it--you will achieve your goal. If, however, your passion is to coach youth sports teams, keep your day job, as the money will certainly not follow your passion. It’s hard to argue with this logic.
However, these are extreme examples. With the breaking down of the office space barriers over the past few years, and an increase in options such as telecommuting and working remotely, employees should be able to work at a job that is a pretty good lifestyle match.

http://www.kellyservices.us/US/Careers/Candidate-Resource-Center/Career-Tips-and-Tools/Does-the-Job-Fit-Your-Lifestyle_/

The Original prescription for ADHD


Sunday, August 4, 2013

Vibing with a Pack of Lions....BDay Celebration and CD Release Party




Penned Productions Presents the Birthday Celebration and CD Release for HoodRaised. One of the most humblest poets out there, Hood is requesting your presence at this terrific event. Hood will be releasing Mind Over Matters, a highly anticipated spoken word cd. The event will be hosted by Jason Williams and have performers such as Darling Mikki, Momentum and Enjoi Love and many many more. The entrance fee is $10 and the cd itself is $10. Tickets are available today. If interested in purchasing tickets please feel free to call HoodRaised at 312-823-7438 or email us at pennedproductions@yahoo.com. Thank You and See You Soon!!

NATURAL PRODUCTS CO-OPERATIVE MEETING at Qunatum Studio



If you make natural/vegan/local soap, skin care products, scented oils, bath salts, creams, household cleansers, and air fresheners please join us this Sunday, we have a proposal we'd like to share.

If you are interested in starting or joining a cooperative enterprise, or you simply want to learn more about cooperatives and the growing cooperative movement, please join us.

Please join us. 5-6P
Quantum Studio
946 East 43rd Street, Chicago, Illinois 60653

Zeta Phi Beta, Inc presents: HIP-HOP MEETS HOUSE!!!




Dan Ryan Wood Grove 7

Ready for a great time??? Join Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s Rho Upsilon Zeta Chapter once again for the kick off to our new year! Dance to House Music or Nod to Old and New School Hip Hop!! Enjoy the food and partake in our "tasty beverages". We ask for a $7 donation for UNLIMITED food and drink. All proceeds fund the Latricia Barnes Scholarships for Northern Illinois University Students. Come out, fellowship with us! Raffles, Games, Music and Just Goooood People! All are welcomed. (feel free to bring your own grill

Saturday, August 3, 2013

A Vivant Thang: A Midsummer's Daydream



Celebrate the summer with a Single Girl Summer dayparty. Dress code is Colorful and Chic. There will be music, giveaways, books for purchase, and photo shoots with Ven Sherrod. Free Admission. This adventure is powered by Toyota on Western (6941 S. Western | 773.884.7200). There will be a shiny 2013 Rav 4 Crossover outside the venue for you to check out.
 
 

PARTY OF THE DAY!!! A Summer Soul Series PT2




Please join Geafro/Dana & friends for Part 2 of "A Summer Soul Series" We will turn the day into night with Musical Libations for your Soul! Sound Rotation by DJ Cheez, Dave Maze, Terry James, Rickey Troupe, Elvis Leon Armstrong, Brian Reaves.** This is a FREE BYOB event. ** Food will be served at 4pm (available while supplies last.)** Please bring your blankets and chairs.The harbor is located near the Gold Statue on 63rd Street, near LSD.http://www.chicagoharbors.info/harbors/jackson-park-inner/

Friday, August 2, 2013

My bad anglish aint so bad at all.


"Aint nobody out to Sheila's!"

Bad grammar?

Aint
There is no

nobody
person

out to

away from home and at

Sheila's
Sheila's place

Is "Ebonics" improper English" ?
Or is it a customized version created by American Blacks?

Some argue that there is nothing wrong with the dialect spoken by America's Blacks and that conformity to the norm is done out of self hate.

Others see it as a deficient form of English and state that if a language is worth speaking, it should be spoken "correctly".

Yet what does "speaking English correctly" really denote? Is grammar incorrect when the meaning of a statement is quite easy to infer?

Should we be held to corporate/scholastic America's standards or should they relax theirs and embrace what can be properly be called a dialect?

Whatever the case may be ChallyWally, a brotha gone speak it like it T-I-IZ!

Your thoughts?

FEED THE PEOPLE!

WE OUT HERE!!!



“This is not a charity event. This is an investment in your life, our own lives as individuals, & the lives of our children.” 
  ~Brother B (Brandon Daurham) 


What is FTP?

  FEED THE PEOPLE is a community lead movement toward becoming self-sustaining as a people while serving as an example of how we can care for and sharing with one another as a community. Every Friday on 79th Street (1/2 block east of Cottage Grove), the FTP team has free food and clothing available for members of the community/family. Staff consists of all volunteers and all items are donated by caring members of the community itself. 

Why FTP? 
  There are a lot of unnecessary problems that exist within the Black community. We say unnecessary because all of our issues & problems do not have to exist!!! Of all of our challenges hunger is one of the most bizarre & blatantly unnecessary!! We have all seen the beauty & compassion of our people during times of climatic catastrophes. Unfortunately, many of us overlook the societal disasters that we as a people encounter daily!! The everyday hurricanes, earthquakes & floods of life we must address & this is what FEED THE PEOPLE is about. But 2 do this we need you!!! If everyone does a little no one has 2 do a lot. We ask that everyone donate a minimum of 2 canned goods a week & pass out a minimum of 10 flyers a week. That’s all. Power, peace & prosperity is ours!! 

LET’S GET IT!!!!
  Some Simple Things We Can Do 2 Enhance Our Hood :
*Throw ya trash in the trash can. A clean environment helps to create a clean mind; a grimy environment helps to create a grimy mind. 
*Take it back 2 Alabama & Mississippi on em & Speak & Wave 2 your neighbors. There is no community without COMMUNIcation. 
*Create & support positive, creative & enriching programs for our youth. Like B-ball tournaments, chess clubs, rap battles, poetry sets, mentoring programs, Saturday schools, etc. If we don’t have any programs 4 our shortys, please believe the county jail do!!!
 *Make sure the churches in our communities are open not just on Sunday, but throughout the week; offering programs that will empower & enrich our community. 
*Support Black business & entrepreneurship. 
*Get back in touch with home remedies. Ease up on the PHARMacy & go to the real FARM; go back to nature. Please get ya self a copy of the book Prescription 4 Nutritional Healing by Phyllis Balch.
 *Check out the documentary “Hidden Colors”. Watch it with your family, church, etc & have a lil round table discussion about it. 

** WE WILL HAVE STRONG, LOVING & COOPERATIVE COMMUNITIES AGAIN! ** 
Help Us… 
Contribute non-perishable food items -
Donate to coat drive (coats, hats, gloves, scarves) - 
Donate your time by joining us on Fridays - 
Like/Subscribe to updates & spread the word! 

CONNECT WITH FTP 

For more information: 773-396-3276 / LifeIsGood83@yahoo.com
To donate food & clothing: 312-256-4739 / TiGiNiiCreative@gmail.com FEED THE PEOPLE CHICAGO | FRIDAY NIGHTS | 79TH & COTTAGE GROVE | 8:30-10PM

www.facebook.com/WeOutHereCommunity 
www.facebook.com/BrandonDaurham 

For more information: 773-396-3276 / LifeIsGood83@yahoo.com 
To donate food & clothing: 312-256-4739 / TiGiNiiCreative@gmail.com

 FEED THE PEOPLE CHICAGO | FRIDAY NIGHTS | 79TH & COTTAGE GROVE | 8:30-10PM

Smoothie of the Day- Cantaloupe-Banana




Health benefits: Saves eyesight, controls blood pressure, supports immune system

1 banana
1/4 ripe cantaloupe, seeded and coarsely chopped
1/2-cup nonfat or low-fat yogurt
2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk
1 1/2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
2 teaspoons honey
1/2-teaspoon vanilla extract

The Forum


The Forum is located at 318-328 East 43rd Street (adjacent to the CTA station) in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville community. Built in the 1890s, the structure contains one of the most important assembly/performance halls of this community, as well as several transit-friendly retail spaces. After closure of “Forum Hall”, the second floor performance space, in the 1970s, the building fell into disrepair and barely escaped city-ordered emerg
ency demolition in 2011. A community member has recently acquired the building, has stabilized the structure, and is leading a community-based heritage conservation effort to rehabilitate it.