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Sit in front of laptop. Lie on couch. Eat pickles for lunch. Back to laptop. Feel sorry for self. Feel sick of self. Tear hair out in frustration. And ... back to couch. If this is your 9-to-5 routine, you're probably like 14 million other Americans: unemployed. And in addition to the frustration of looking for work, you might find yourself ...

Celebrities. We love to hate them. We also love to watch their every move, laugh at their mistakes and scrutinize their decisions. Like them or not, their celebrity status means not only have they achieved career success, they’ve also got a hell of a lot to lose. And sometimes, whatever actions have helped catapult them to fame or rendered them ...

Sometimes, a person will lose their job through no fault of their own. The whims of a psychotic boss, an economy in shambles, or a simple misunderstanding can have an otherwise satisfactory employee packing up his or her cubicle. Other times, a person will lose their job because they have done something so incredibly foolish, you wonder how they ever ...

America was not always obsessed with low prices, writes Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ellen Ruppel Shell, but over the past century our thirst for bargains has transformed the world's economy - and not necessarily for the better. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture explores the effects of our focus on low price. The idea sprang from a trip to a shoe ...

When Amy Nichols worked as a sales representative for Verizon, she often found herself hanging around pet stores on weekends, gazing longingly at the puppies. A longtime pet lover, she yearned to start a business that involved dogs but wasn't interested in selling them. She didn't want to start a kennel, either. Her inspiration came from her Boston terrier, Griffin. Nichols ...

A judge has tossed out federal fraud convictions against two salespeople who used late-night infomercials to tout their stock-trading abilities and lure customers. A jury convicted Linda Woolf of Sandy, Utah, and David Gengler of Draper, Utah, in May on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud. The two were among the top earners at a company called Teach Me to Trade, ...

It was a test drive all right. This driver tested John Law's patience - and pushed it to the limit. A West Springfield man out for a spin in a brand new 2010 Honda Accord liked the black sedan so much, he just kept going. Cops say Aleh Kot, 32, briefly kidnapped the car salesman Thursday afternoon before taking off on ...

Now more than ever, it’s important to get the best bang for your buck. And there’s no question about it — when it comes to value, not every U.S. city is created equally. The number of Americans moving has dropped to its lowest levels since 1962, but now might be the time to consider it. Why chase a great salary if ...

Products come and go all the time. But some new products fail for hilarious reasons. You may not be old enough to remember the Ford Edsel, but you've probably heard about it. Does your child have a doll? Odds are its not the Baby Wee-Wee. Listening to an MP3 player now? Is it a Zune? Probably not. Over the years, these ...

Writing college term papers take the time of most students. These college paper requirements are common in students' stay in a university. Thus, it becomes inevitable for anyone seeking a major degree to write his or her own academic paper.   With the growing pressure to deliver, students are sometimes tempted to hire the services of freelance college paper writers ...

Time flies when you're wasting it These days, no one can afford to waste time at work. Thanks to widespread downsizing, workloads are piling up. Unfortunately, extra hours in the day are not. Maximizing your time at work can mean the difference between leaving at a reasonable hour (i.e. holding onto your sanity) and staying late unnecessarily. You’ve got a ...

Maybe you're around the corner from 30 and aren't even half way through student loans. Or you bit off more than you can chew with the nice house everyone said you could afford. If you've cut back to absolute frugal basics and still find it hard to get by, you need to generate more revenue. This might mean getting a better ...

There's just something about a recession that makes people want to do funny things. Like wannabe comics who are out of a job and hoping amateur hour at comedy clubs could be the ticket to a paycheck - and maybe stardom. Because, really, how hard could that be? At New York City's Gotham Comedy Club, co-owner Chris Mazzilli says he saw ...

Best Buy's (BBY) Chief Operating Officer Brian Dunn won't take over the CEO position until June, but he has already learned a valuable management lesson: Use discretion in figuring out which perks to cut, even in the most difficult economic times. Dunn, a 23-year veteran of the company who started out selling stereos back when Best Buy only had a dozen ...

When you Google your name, what's the first thing that pops up? Is it something you'd rather people not see? Or is your name so common your mere existence is lost in cyberspace? While you can't completely erase those results, you can now better control your Internet identity - as long as you're willing to share your private information with Google. ...

Interactive web conferences with desktop sharing have gotten us used to the idea of online collaboration. A newer crop of visual collaboration sites kicks the concept up a few rungs by letting you work closely with your remote employees, partners and customers on projects involving trickier media like video and images. +Service: ConceptShare+ Features: Flexibility is ConceptShare's strong point. It can ...

Members of online social networks may be more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infection than they realize, according to a new survey from Webroot, a leading provider of Internet security software for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets. Surveying over 1,100 members of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and other popular social networks, Webroot uncovered numerous behaviors that put ...

h4. What is 'Lead Generation'? Lead generation is not a new concept, but the popularity of the Internet has made is so that a business can outsource its lead generation activities and receive great results. There are many companies that specialize in generating leads for other companies. Lead generation companies use their own, proprietary methods for collecting leads in specific categories ...

Guam's economy generated $6.2 billion in sales in 2007, up from $4.6 billion in 2002, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 Economic Census of Island Areas: Geographic Area Series for Guam. The economic census profiles Guam's economy every 5 years. In 2007, Guam had 3,143 businesses with paid employees. These businesses employed 52,394 people and accounted for $1.1 billion in ...

No single business book contains everything you need to know--and some even offer advice nobody ought to hear. But these five have withstood the test of time to become books no one should start or run a business without reading first. *1. Will It Fly? How to Know if Your New Business Idea Has Wings... Before You Take the Leap, by ...