#PhotoaDayMay: Something You Do Everyday

Computer, coffee, and headphones at the kitchen table, also known as my workspace, and of course my blog dashboard is up on the computer screen. This is pretty much what my daily workday looks like. Sometimes I move to the couch if I’m having more of a relaxing day and can watch some television between blog posts and emails, but most of the time this is it. It’s a rather nice thing to call “work.” Sometimes I forget how fortunate I am to have taken this hope of mine of writing for a living and running a website and to have successfully turned it into my reality. Fortunate indeed.

If you want to join in, check out the May Photo a Day Challenge List.

Thinking of Going Back to School? Open Up New Career Paths with a Masters in Education Degree

In the last few years I have noticed quite a number of people both weighing the possibility and diving head-first into pursuing higher education degrees. Some have started families and quickly realized that the education level and skills they had weren’t enough to land them in a career that they could take care of those families with. Many had been struggling for years before they had figured out a realistic plan that made it possible for them to attend college courses. Others were so overworked that the thought of moving up into a more influential position or changing careers altogether was extremely liberating. Whatever the reason, finding and settling into a career that is both fulfilling and financially stable takes hard work, diligence, and creativity to attain; higher education is often what can turn the potential …

The 10 Most Successful Female CEOs of All Time

This is a guest post by Business Insurance Quotes, providing top notch resources for businesses of all sizes for over 20 years.

Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female CEOs of all time.

Is it Gender or Skills that Make a Good Social Media Marketer?

Ten years ago I started working for my husband providing marketing services for his software business. At the time, we were not married and he lived in another state therefore most of our communication was done over the phone. He didn’t have any background in marketing, and figured since I had taken some college courses related to marketing I could turn his business around.

How I wish social media was then what it is today. We were lucky to at least have Instant Messenger.

According to ComScore 2010 US Digital Year in Review women spend more time social networking than men. Women spent approximately 16.8% on social sites in December of 2010 while men spent only 12%.

Today, social media tools are just as much associated with businesses as well as personal lives. Some researchers …

How to Become a Healthy Work-at-Home Family – 5 Helpful Tips

There has been an abundance of parents choosing to have a career so they can work from home, and for just as many reasons it seems. Perhaps that’s the reason there are so many advertisements for ‘working at home’ plans and programs, because they are well aware of the public’s desire for it. For some, it’s not a desire, but an actual necessity.

One reason a parent might choose this path is because of the exorbitant cost of daycare. By working from home, a family can save thousands of dollars a year just by not having to place their kids in daycare.

I have heard of a family who wanted to stay home with their disabled child. They couldn’t find a place to provide attentive and individualized care for their child, without having to take …

Women at Work: The Most Irritating Office Behaviors

Whether it’s the coworker that can’t seem to keep herself from shouting on the phone or the obnoxious office gossip, we’ve all been there. Stuck on a project with a lazy coworker, or even worse, sharing a cubicle with a coworker who just can’t mind her business. Sound familiar?

Take a gander at these top five irritating office behaviors to see if there are any bad habits that you need to break in the workplace:

Not responding to e-mails. There is nothing more annoying than a coworker who simply won’t respond to an e-mail, especially regarding an important matter. Is this coworker too busy to shoot an e-mail back as a simple response? Or maybe this coworker lacks the organizational skills to keep her e-mail inbox clean? Either way, don’t commit this cardinal sin. If you don’t …