It may not be the happiest of things to post about, but let’s face it: With the economy still stagnating, there is one field that has seen a meteoric growth in the past few years – debt collection jobs. Today I wanted to focus on what subset of their field that is a bit more [...]
Mara Strom
Are you thinking about starting your own blog to make money from home? While you probably won’t get rich overnight, blogging is a great way to build community around an issue you are passionate about, while also earning income from advertising and affiliate linking. If you’d like to try your hand at writing a blog, [...]
If you are getting ready for the start of your senior year of college, this is an exciting and empowering time. You have just one year left of college, and while the “real world” is right around the corner, you can still enjoy the cushy protection of your academic home for two more semesters. In [...]
Green jobs are hot and getting hotter. The Obama administration recently committed $20 million to develop offshore wind energy and is now giving another $1.85 billion to build solar plants around the U.S. Of that large sum, $1.45 billion will be given to the Arizona plant, Abengoa Solara, which will put the money toward powering [...]
With the 4th of July right around the corner, it seems like the perfect time to talk about everyone’s favorite Independence Day job. No, I don’t mean the apple pie baker! I’m talking about the pyrotechnic jobs. Everyone loves fireworks on the 4th of July, but what do you know about the person responsible for [...]
This is surely a sign of the times, folks: JobMonkey’s newest section is on debt collections jobs. Oh man, doesn’t that just speak volumes? While many industries have seriously downsized during the last two years of economic recession, there is one industry that is doing quite well: Debt collection. With unemployment hovering just under [...]
I know, I know, your mother always told you to put down your video game controls and pick up your text books. I think the refrain went something like this, “Playing those *&%^ games isn’t going to pay the bills, young man!” Well guess what, Mom? There is actually a whole profession that earns their [...]
MSNBC is reporting that an army of 19,000 contract workers (and some 5,000 volunteers) have swarmed the Gulf Coast to help with clean-up efforts from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It would seem that pitching in to help clean up America’s worst disaster is on the minds and hearts of many [...]
