Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

Pharmacy Tech Classes

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

My Pharmacy Tech Classes are going quite well so far.  I’ve gotten “As” on all of the tests and homework assignments.  I’ve completed the research paper, which isn’t due for another month.  I’ve even been interviewing for work in the local Wal-Mart store for a job as a Pharmacy Technician, and they say that they are very interested in hiring me.  I’m supposed to call them back tomorrow afternoon and see what kind of progress is being made to that end.  I hope I got the job!  We sure could use the money since my hubby lost seven months of pay from being out injured from that car accident he was in last fall.

I’ve been doing some research as to how much money Pharmacy Techs make and to be honest it was not as much as I thought it was when I signed up for the class.  I’m not sure if I would have signed up for the class if I’d realized how little they actually get paid.  It seems to be for a job to require certification and continuing education that companies would pay decent money!  But it seems that in this area where I live getting paid decent money is a pipe dream, which is why most people commute an hour or more to go to work.  And I don’t want to drive that far to go to work, so I have to just swallow my pride and take a lower paying job.

Oh well, I need the money and the job is close to home.  With the price of gas going up as much as it has, and as much as it is going to be going up, I’ll be the lucky one bringing home more money at the end of the week once the costs of commuting are figured into the picture!

The Internet is a whole new business

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Things sure have changed a lot in my lifetime!  When I was a kid, there were very few opportunities to get the word out about your business.  You could advertise on radio, television, mass mailings, and the paper publishing media such as newspapers and magazines.  And of course, the most effective marketing possible back then was word of mouth marketing; your satisfied customers telling other people that they know that your business exists and exactly how happy they were with your product or service. 

Well, word of mouth advertising was the most successful advertising strategy then, and it is the most successful advertising strategy now.  In today’s advertising campaigns, blog marketing adds another dimension to word of mouth advertising. 

Blogs were originally set up by people to share their thoughts with their friends and loved ones, and anyone else that might happen to share their interests.  Bloggers have developed a social network that is so far reaching that it almost boggles the imagination.  Marketing companies like Izea capitalize on that social network by finding bloggers that will promote their client’s products.  They have several innovative programs designed to help advertisers promote their products through blog marketing strategies.  Izea offers a lot of different strategies, including product sampling, blog sponsorships, and blog posts.

California Lasik procedures

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Lasik is the newest technology in vision correction, and is gaining popularity across the country.  The military has their pilots receive Lasik vision correction, and many sports figures are having the Lasik correction done in the hopes it will improve their performance and give them a competitive edge.  I think that if a sports competitor has Lasik to correct impaired vision, then that is an acceptable practice; however if they are having it done when their vision is already 20/20 and they don’t NEED any correction, I would consider that to be cheating.  I wonder how many of them do that to get an unfair advantage!?

Lasik in San Francisco is performed by a company called LaserVue.  They have three offices in California, which makes it convenient for people in California to schedule Lasik vision correction procedures.  Their highly skilled doctors have performed over 25,000 procedures!   The procedure usually takes less than five minutes per eye, and is virtually painless.  The LaserVue company arranges easy payment plans for their clients, making it more affordable for their clients to take advantage of this new technological advance to improve their vision.

The Career Network

Monday, June 16th, 2008

As I’ve mentioned to you before, now that school is out for the summer, I am taking courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I want to find a better job than school bus driving.  If it doesn’t work out that I pass this course I’m taking, or get a job in the field after the course IS completed, I need to find something to help pay the bills.  A friend told me to try looking for a new job through the Career Network website. 

I just went to the website to check it out, and it seemed pretty straightforward to use.  You type in the job title you are interested in and the location you want to work in, and click on the button that says “Find Jobs.”  Within moments you are shown the jobs that they have listed as available with brief descriptions of the jobs.  If you want more information, then you click on the more information link.  If you want even more information, then you actually have to fill out the forms with your name, address, phone numbers, email, and upload your resume.  After you submit that they tell you that they will contact you.

So you don’t really get more information at that point, which was a little bit of a disappointment because I have a feeling that even though I typed in the name of the town that I wanted to find a job in, I have a bad feeling that the job opportunities shown to me were not actually in that town.  So I guess now I just have to wait and see what happens, wait for some kind of contact from them.  I hope I wasn’t wasting my time!

Credit card relief

Friday, June 13th, 2008

With the economy continuing to struggle, more and more people are going to find themselves drowning in credit card debt.  They may find themselves in need of help to consolidate their debts.  I’m sorry to say that they could very well be the case for my family if things don’t improve pretty soon, especially since I’m not working for money this summer while I’m taking that course!

The Credit Exchange is an Internet company that helps their clients to obtain credit card relief.  They do that by referring services for debt consolidation and debt management to their customers.  There is no other company like this in existence that I know of.  The company offers financial services like credit and debt counseling, debt settlement, and financial analysis through their network of affiliated companies.  They are not a debt management company, they are a referral company.