Stacking of temporary jobs has become a long-term situation for many workers

Sunday 25 December, 2011

Stacking of temporary jobs has become a long-term situation for many workers  
Sunday 25 December, 2011 source: Pioneer Press

Tat'Yana Kenigsberg at work at the University of Minnesota, where she is an Office Assistant for a Professor of chemistry.
She has four part-time jobs. (Pioneer Press: John Doman) Tat'Yana Kenigsberg has four part-time jobs.
Not by choice; the graduate had to quadruple up after strikeouts on her attempts to land a good full-time job.
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Teachers and Counselors, Help Your Students Become Career Explorers

Teachers and Counselors, Help Your Students Become Career Explorers

As teachers and counselors, you help students explore careers.

You aid your students as they search for meaning, purpose, and direction.

You see their talents.

You know their interests, abilities, and skills.

You help students plan for the future.

You understand students. You know that students -

Are curious
Love colorful, multimedia presentations
Use their senses and imaginations in career exploration

You have searched for tools that will help you unlock their potentials.

Tips for Finding the Right Career Tool

Career tools help your students explore who they really are. Career tools include career tests, assessments, games, web sites, and books. Career tests answer the question "Who am I?" Career assessments point out your students' likes, dislikes, or interests. Kid career tools should be fun, educational, and not boring.

Search for the resource that meets your students' needs. Look at the benefits. Find tests, assessments, games, web sites, and books that are -

Eye appealing
Easy to use
Full of resources

With the right resource, students are ready and willing to -

Explore
Investigate
Learn
Ask questions
Enjoy discovering who they are
Gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding

An effective career tool motivates your students to explore careers. Creative career tools build a foundation for more detailed career exploration.

Step One: Select a Career Test

How do you choose the right career test? Look at 3 major areas -

Format, e.g. Printed, CD-ROM, or on-line
Cost -$10, $12, $15, $20 or more
Resources - Information on interests, skills, and careers

When you look at a career test, ask yourself the following questions -

What do your students prefer? Printed or on-line career test?
What is your budget for the tests?
What resources do you have? Do you have a computer lab?

Find career tests that your students are interested in and that provide valuable information about careers and your student's interests. Look at career tests that use well-known career models. Match students' interest clusters to career or job codes. Use newer color-coded career tests that simply career models. The use of colors improves attention span, concentration, memory skills, and understanding. As students grow older, continue to use career models expand their knowledge of careers and college majors. There are a variety of career tests for youth, college students, and adults.

Step Two: Explore Career Web Sites and Books

Career tests prepare students to explore careers. Gather information about fun, informative, and attractive career exploration web sites and books. Look for web sites and books that provide career information about -

Tasks
Wages
Career outlook
Interests
Education
Knowledge
Skills
Similar careers


Examples of kid career exploration web sites and books are -


Career Ship
What Do You Like
Eek! Get a Job
GetTech.org
LifeWorks
Young Person's Occupational Outlook Handbook
Career Ideas for Kids Book Series
I Want To Be Book Series

Career exploration is a process. As teachers and counselors, use resources that make your journey enjoyable, educational, and effective. Plan successful kid career exploration expeditions.

Dr Mary Askew specializes in career tests, websites, and books for students. Students need eye appealing, easy to use, yet comprehensive career resources. Find out how students can reach their career potentials at http://www.hollandcodes.com. Contact Dr. Askew at learning4life@qwest.net.

Texas Couple Become Goat-Farming Entrepreneurs

Most people hold on to their jobs for security and whatever benefits they might provide. But some adventurous souls follow a more challenging path, becoming entrepreneurs, working for themselves with no safety net to catch them if they fail. One urban couple chose to move to the country in Waller County, Texas, northwest of Houston, to begin a new life and business, with goats.

Part of the daily routine for Christian Seger at the Blue Heron Farm is milking the goats at feeding time.

His wife, Lisa, maintains the kitchen they built to meet state specifications.

And they had to buy these expensive machines to pasteurize the milk. "It is not something you can do as a hobby. When we decided to do this, we had to make the investment and treat it like a business," said Lisa.

Both of the Segers were city dwellers five years ago. She worked in advertising. He handled sound systems for entertainers.

But Christian says he wanted to go into business for himself. "Working for other people my whole life, I felt I had given them more than I had gotten from them. No one is ever going to take a loss to pay you more," he said.

The Segers bought this four-hectare property in 2006 and the equipment they needed for their enterprise.

Working as a team, they process the milk, make the cheese and sell some of it to restaurants and special clients.

And they sell cheese at weekly farmers markets, like this one in a parking lot at Rice University in Houston that attracts urban residents who want locally produced, healthy food. "With Houston, we have a big city full of a lot of adventurous foodies and so there really is quite a market for it," she said.

Neither of the Segers had any experience in agriculture or food production before they began this enterprise. But Lisa says that didn't stop them. "We have learned in this amazing age we live in that you can learn anything from the Internet, anything! So we Googled everything," she said.

One thing Christian says they have learned through their rural experience is to live by nature's cycles.

"When it is wintertime, the goats eat at 5:00 p.m, we milk them at 5:00, they are done and go to bed by 6:00. In the summertime, it gets dark so late that we are out until 9:00 or 9:30. You just kind of get on their cycle," said Lisa.

Lisa says they care for their goats almost as if they were family. "Stewardship of the animals is a huge thing, stewardship of the animals and the earth, and if we cannot take care of them in a way that we think is appropriate, then we cannot do this," she said.

Christian and Lisa Seger are now fully immersed in their business and their life in the country, and they're not looking back.

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