Best Jobs to Get a Raise

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According to this article, the field I want to get into, Publishing, is one of the best fields to go into that allows the employee to get a raise pretty frequently. When looking into what fields that attracts you, looking at how much you are paid as well as how many companies are hiring. This article gives me a lot of hope for when I go out into the field to find jobs.

The Importance of Technology in the Modern-day Workforce

Technology has become so impairative to the modern-day citizen, and it is slowly taking over the workforce as well. Registers are now touch-screen, and most of the machines are now smarter than the employees working them.

As the technology advances in the workplace, more and more potential employees are being "left in the dust." Typically, the older the potential employee gets, the harder it is for them to grasp the new technology that is being used in the workplace. This creates a high demand for technology savvy "young" employees, giving the "elder" employee less of a chance to get a job. This void is causing many people to be unemployed, or taking jobs way below the salary they actually deserve. The only viable solution is for employers to stop basing potential employees off of their age, and for those employees to take a few technology classes. Who knows, a $70 class may eventually lead to a job paying triple that amount a day!

Jobs No One Knows About

Over the past several years, there are several new jobs that have recently been created during the technology boom that many people don't know about.

Social Media/Online Community Manager is one of the most popular unknown jobs. Paying roughly $40,000 a year, the job includes updating social media sites such as facebook and twitter and using these sites to create a "buzz" about the business.

Telework Manager or Coordinator is another job that was created during this technology boom. Starting at roughly $30,000 a year, the job includes tasks such as managing telecommuting programs for employers, and resolving any technical issues that may arise.

Educational Consultant is a job that has been created due to the increase in worry surrounding public education. Requring a Bachelors and also recommends a Masters in Education, this job starts at roughly $53,000 a year. These consultants work with families to find out what type of educational environments suit their children best.

These are just three of the many new jobs that have been created over the past few years.

Freelance

Having to juggle college and a busy work schedule is practically impossible for some students. With the recent technological age, many students, and even some adults, are turning to freelance journalism jobs to provide an income to support themselves during the school year.

Different sites such as elance.com and careerbuilder.com offer users different opportunities to get freelance jobs all over and in different fields of writing. From social media posts, to hard news stories and even lesson plans, these websites offer students, and busy adults, the opportunity to get an income without leaving the home and working around their busy schedules.

Work Requires Flexibility

One of the hardest things to get used to is the lack of time when working. Managers will work you a ton one week, and the next week barely work you at all. It's not that they don't like you; they just didn't need you as much that week for one reason or another. Also, managers don't really care if you hate closing; if that's all your availability really allows for, that's what they'll work you.

With my job, I close almost every single day I work, and I've been there for two years. You learn to get used to it.

The one thing that most people hate about having a job while in school is the fact that they begin to not have a social life. However, you get used to not being able to go out every single time your friends go out. Obligations to work do come first for those of us who are serious about having a job. You may not want to make it your lifelong career, but if you work hard enough, a good recommendation will help you get that job you really do want.

The Desensitization of Society

Desensitize is a word that is becoming increasingly popular in society’s vocabulary today. Why? Because today’s icons are becoming more and more disgraceful with their every action. Desensitize is defined by Webster’s Online Dictionary to make indifferent, unaware, or the like.

Once shunned words such as the f-word have become increasingly popular in not only movies, but music as well as the vocabulary of the rich and famous. Society has become indifferent when it comes to such obscenities such as sex scenes and swear words. Even fashion has become desensitized, as girls fashion is become overwhelmed with “sexy” tops and short miniskirts.

Recently, three little girls decided to take a stand against this desensitization of society, and wrote a song in the form of a letter to famous rap star Lil’ Wayne. In this the three little girls discuss how he talks about drugs and alcohol constantly, and how he dehumanizes women in his songs.

They asked whether he treated his daughter like he treats the women in his songs.

This has caused uproar in the rap music industry.

An up-and-coming rapper Chase Million$$$ released a song titled “Letter to Watoto from the Nile,” in which he slams the three girls saying that “there’s just some things you won’t understand because you’re just a child.”

However, children often are the ones who speak the most truth.

Lil Wayne is just one of the many examples of stars who are part of the problem surrounding the desensitization of today’s society.

The desensitization of society is causing major problems for Christians. It is causing Christians to either have to question their morals, or be shunned by those who are desensitized.

Christians are taught that it is a sin to swear, and that by viewing sex scenes, they are also sinning as Christians are taught to be pure. We are taught those sexually explicit scenes are impure. God tells us that our duty as Christians is to keep our bodies and minds pure, so that we may glorify God.

These three little girls may be young, 10, 9, and 5 years of age, but they have better morals and are more mature than rapper Lil Wayne.  These girls speak the truth, and do not deserve to be treated horribly, or to be receiving the hate mail that they are.

I hope that these three little girls are able to prove their point and get Lil Wayne’s attention.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/134432/feb-28-mar-6-lil-waynes-negative-lyrics-prompt-complaint-song-from-little-girls/

Dealing with Superiors

Learning how to talk to your boss is probably the hardest thing to learn as an employee. Bosses' almost always believe they are right, even when they are in fact, wrong. My advice is to approach them with an objective viewpoint, calmly, and only talk about things that are personally effecting YOU as an employee. Managers do not often like being told wrong, so always try to state how you are feeling, and make your accusations seem more like suggestions and questions, that way the boss doesn't feel threatened. They hold the power, and often times, they don't like to have their power questioned by a subordinate.