Side Hustling for Beginners: How to Make Money on the side & Keep Your Day Job

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Side Hustling for Beginners: How to Make Money on the side & Keep Your Day Job

If you're here, you have some part of a hustler's spirit.  You work hard.  You see opportunities and you seize them.  

And in this good year of our Lord Two Thousand and Sixteen, you also know that neither tomorrow nor jobs are promised.  You may be killin it at work today and let go in an unfortunate round of layoffs tomorrow.  

So you might have a side hustle.  Or you've thought about one.  Maybe you see your side hustle as your on ramp to a life of freedom and answering to no one.  Maybe you just need some extra cash to float you month to month.  Either way, as long as your side hustle is extra money, not your main source of income, you need to balance its demands and protect your main job.  

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Oh Sh*t! How to Recover from a Major Work Mistake

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Oh Sh*t! How to Recover from a Major Work Mistake

You f*cked up.  We're not talking a typo or using they're instead of their (although, please, PLEASE, don't do that). Not just a small accident, a big one that majorly impacts your team and those around you. No, you my friend really stepped in it, screwed the pooch, blew it big time, effed up.

It happens to everyone eventually. And it will happen to you. Despite your best intentions, you will mess up at work eventually. Either by screwing up a project, forgetting something crucial, or by the many other ways one can make a massive mistake. It is going to happen. The important thing to manage is how you handle the aftermath.

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Three Ways to Grow Your Career with LinkedIn

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Three Ways to Grow Your Career with LinkedIn

With the recent buyout, LinkedIn is on everyone's lips.  We all know that LinkedIn is a great tool for networking and meeting new professional contacts.  You are probably using it to find and apply for new jobs already.  Quietly, word on the street is that LinkedIn has even become a dating tool to identify eligible professional singles (but I'm not one to gossip so you ain't heard that from me).

Even if you're happy in your current job and company, LinkedIn can still be a powerful tool to guide and inform your career growth.

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1-900-HUSTLER - Non-profit is NOT for me

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1-900-HUSTLER - Non-profit is NOT for me

Dear Cubicle Hustler,

I’ve been on a serious job hunt for the better part of the past two years. I’m currently working for a non-profit but realized that the non-profit world just isn’t for me. Before I went back to school for my Master’s, I was in corporate America but that was six years ago. Now that I’m looking, I do pretty well in getting interviews, and always get past the first few rounds. But it seems that every time I get to the final round interviews with the senior level leaders (SVPs and such), I never close the deal, even though all other members of the team seem to really like me.  I’m only targeting jobs that I am qualified for and would essentially be lateral moves from my current position. What am I doing wrong? Is coming from a non-profit holding me back?

Signed,

Not for profit, not for me

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The Two Most Important Questions to Ask in ANY JOB

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The Two Most Important Questions to Ask in ANY JOB

A good friend of mine was recently preparing for a big time speech in front of a big time audience.  To prep, she asked a group of us for our best career advice.  Since I've been in CH-mode, jotting down all the nuggets that I've learned along the way and wished someone had just told me when I started working, I had a bunch of things swirling in my mind.  After a little thought, I narrowed it down to the two most important questions anyone can ask in any job, no matter what their role, industry, or organization.

(No they are not how much do I get paid? and when will the direct deposit hit my account?)

Wanna hear em, here they go.

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