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Mary inTampa

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Mary Cochran

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Job > Paralegal

Salary vs. Hourly

I think it's to your benefit to get paid an hourly rate. If you get paid salary, you could end up working 55 hours a week.

I worked a job like that when I first started ...

2 days 1 hour ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

Well, the good news: We all heard that Obama signed the extension for unemployment - another 14 weeks for everybody, and an additional 6 weeks for those states over 10% (something ...

2 days 6 hours ago
Job > Legal Secretary

The Axe Effect

Sorry, Toronto. She did that to you - not because of you - but to make herself look more important and better than you. She was obviously on an ego trip. Sounds to me like the ...

2 days 13 hours ago
Job > Legal Secretary

The Axe Effect

Another great job:

Paid Internship - Legal Secretary/Paralegal (Tampa)

Date: 2009-11-17, 10:18AM EST
Reply to: see below

Would you like to try out for ...

2 days 13 hours ago
General > Career Advice

Unemployment and DEBT!!!

Well, thanks to the extra $25.00 I get to my Florida unemployment, I lost my food stamps. So I get $100.00 more a month in unemployment - and lost $200 in food stamps.

I ...

4 days 10 hours ago
Job > Kindergarten Teacher

I've never taught kindergarten but I have a lot of preschool experience

I think to teach pre-K or kindergarden, you need to have teacher certification in elementary education. You should check your state's teacher certification requirements.

4 days 12 hours ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

I think the worst part is losing my concept of trust. People say I'm negative and paranoid. I don't.

4 days 13 hours ago
General > Career Advice

Unemployment and DEBT!!!

[QUOTE who="jessicar91 in lawrenceville, Georgia"]For anoyone that does need a new plan to get money..this is the solution. There is a program you can sign up for for 250 ...

4 days 16 hours ago
Job > Paralegal

Sacramento Paralegals...Where Are You?

Don, have you thought about court reporting?

6 days 3 hours ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

[QUOTE who="linda in Raleigh, North Carolina"]tutorials
folks, I have an opportunity to interview only after I PASS MANY TESTS; word, powerpoint, excel, math ...

6 days 15 hours ago
General > Career Advice

Unemployment and DEBT!!!

Another Jesus person. Isaac, it's true it doesn't help to be negative. On the other hand, learning the Secret is not going to get us a job or pay our bills.

I also pray ...

6 days 15 hours ago
Company > School District of Philadelphia

Employment

No one is going to hire you and pay you the salary you're worth when our government doesn't have the money to splurge on the school system. Teachers are getting laid off, class ...

7 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant duties - have they changed?

They're trying to suck as much skills out of us as they can, and pay us the lowest price. I see paralegal jobs for $12.00 an hour. I have a Bachelor's Degree and a paralegal ...

7 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant duties - have they changed?

I'm not surprised you are in Florida. Good luck in finding a job.

7 days ago
Job > Paralegal

Sacramento Paralegals...Where Are You?

Lauren, I have been reading your stuff. Have you thought about working in a hospital, in the legal department?

8 days ago
Job > Respiratory Therapist

St Petersburg College Respiratory Therapy Program

I took my paralegal program there. They have a very good paralegal program. I was going to take teacher certification there - again, excellent.

8 days ago
Company > Chrysler

Chrysler Employment

Wow, Jess, I think a few months ago Chrysler announced its bankruptcy and was going out of business - I think sold to another country.

8 days ago
Job > Paralegal

Sacramento Paralegals...Where Are You?

My first paralegal job was for a personal injury attorney. I must have been stupid. I worked for him almost six years. He demanded I work until the work was done. I even came in ...

8 days ago
Job > Paralegal

Cost of Paralegal Programs in N. California

Almost always when an attorney is being a bully - it's because he wants to, not because of stress, deadlines, meetings, or whatever. He wants to.

9 days ago
Job > Babysitter

Fear of Babysitting

My first assignment was substitute teaching was fourth graders (9 years old). I have now done K and first grade.

If you're doing something wrong, THEY WILL TELL YOU and ...

9 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

When legal secretarial jobs are disappearing, you know things are getting bad.

I'm doing substitute teaching ($9.58 an hour). I got tutoring from 2:00 - 4:00 two days a week ($20.00) - but I can only get a half-day sub job on those two days. I am also going ...

10 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

When legal secretarial jobs are disappearing, you know things are getting bad.

Brenda, the main reason you can't get a job is because of the economy. I should think in a place like Los Angeles you would have better opportunities than those of us in Florida ...

10 days ago
General > Career Advice

Unemployment and DEBT!!!

Steve, are you touting advertising for your own company or someone else's?

The major unemployment problem here is the shedding of millions of jobs. There is now one job for ...

10 days ago
Job > Accountant

Entry Level CPA job

Herman, are you working for some company doing taxes? If you are, tout yourself. Get a turbotax and do people's taxes for $25.00. I'm sure you would get a lot of people.

10 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

I was on the Internet today and hit an article regarding the people committing suicide. One woman was 54, her husband had died. The day before she killed herself her 2007 car had ...

11 days ago
General > Career Advice

unemployment

Jay, I really think they were trying to set you up - they did and they suceeded. I really think it's too late now. You gave them a resignation.

But go ahead and file for ...

12 days ago
General > Career Advice

unemployment

Why were they out there to your car to begin with? Did you think of that? Is it possible they knew all along you had been doing something, and a certain managing person was ...

12 days ago
General > Career Advice

unemployment

I'm not angry. When you apply for unemployment, paperwork is sent to the Employer. The Employer has to complete the paperwork. They will say you resigned for other reasons. You ...

12 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant 13 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

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13 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

Bigboy is hitting all the forums with nasty remarks. Do not respond. Just hit Report abuse.

13 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

Also, now I have a Gatorade bottle. I fill it with ice, water, and a little sugar. It taste pretty good. I never thought I would get that cheap. It was just a few years ago ...

13 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

Gracie, you should be getting a letter from Unemployment soon telling you you get 16 more weeks of unemployment. And this time I'm sure.

But I sure wished I qualified for ...

13 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

How to Survive Financially When Unemployment Runs Out?

[QUOTE who="BigBoy in Salt Lake City, Utah"]Do you know why the economy is growing after all these job losses? It's because companies have cut the fat. You. And are now ...

13 days ago
General > Career Advice

unemployment

No, you do not qualify for unemployment. You can apply, but you won't get it.

Unemployment is for people who are unemployed "through no fault of their own." Once ...

13 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

When legal secretarial jobs are disappearing, you know things are getting bad.

Well, Reneeca, good for you. Tip, stay off the Internet at work, just in case the "Gota be a big supervisor" people want to create trouble.

15 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

Age discrimination as a leagal secretary.

Small firms do treat you better. Reneeca, have you ever worked in a large firm ... NO ... Well, then that explains it. Most attorneys in big firms have very big egos. Most ...

15 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

Why do Employers repost ad

Not to get off topic, but when I was 23 I had lunch with a real good looking attorney I was physically attracted to. I got a free lunch - and he has gotten 25 years of free sex ...

16 days ago
Job > Travel Agent

Home Based Business

The only home based business that I know of that is profitable is for women and non taxable. That and e-bay.

16 days ago
Job > Paralegal

Is being a paralegal that bad?

After I left working for Frank I ended up ending my phone service. I now have Vonage and a new phone number. And I did not keep in contact with any of the people I worked with.

16 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

College degree needed to be a secretary

Those are beginner jobs. Years ago they didn't even require a high school diploma.

16 days ago
General > Career Advice

Age Discrimination

A lot of reason older workers are looked over is because of the medical insurance issue. Older workers cost a higher premium. If it's a small company, they aren't going to spend ...

16 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

Why do Employers repost ad

If it was a lunch interview offsite, that's not good. That means they're dumping the assistant who is there - while she is there, and they want a replacement before they dump her ...

16 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

College degree needed to be a secretary

A Bachelor's Degree for a part time switchboard sheit job? What a joke.

16 days ago
Job > Administrative Assistant

Why do Employers repost ad

I know what went wrong. They're still shopping - for the right person - probably someone with a certain personality (timid, demure, easy to screw) or someone who will work at a ...

16 days ago
Job > Paralegal

Is being a paralegal that bad?

That battered wife syndrome - that is Frank. He has gone through two more since I left (in 1 1/2 years).

16 days ago
Job > Photographer

how to protect my private pictures

There is a company called Carbonite. Court reporters use it for long term storage for shorthand notes, transcripts, etc. It's $55.00 a year.

17 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

When legal secretarial jobs are disappearing, you know things are getting bad.

[QUOTE who="FEEL USED in Florissant, Missouri"]How fast do you have to be? I am what is a good score?[/QUOTE]

The RPR test (Registered Professional Reporter) is ...

17 days ago
General > Career Advice

Employers who don't respond to applicants

optimistic in Detroit, Michigan said: For those who have the opportunity to interview for a position, I can't believe an employer would have the audacity NOT to inform them of ...

17 days ago
Job > Legal Secretary

When legal secretarial jobs are disappearing, you know things are getting bad.

I mean court reporting. I was a court reporter for ten years. I stopped for twenty. I got my machine out late last January and started practicing. I'm hitting 215 Q&A now ...

17 days ago

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