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When I started working in the bail bonds business I will admit that I really didn’t know what I was doing.  Luckily I was only working as a receptionist, answer the phones, taking payments and checking to make sure everyone was where they were supposed to be at the right time.  I started off with a New Mexico bail bonds agency, and I really enjoyed my job.  I felt like I was helping people who really needed it and it also made me realize that not everyone who gets arrested is a hardened criminal.  Quite often it’s normal people making stupid choices.  

After a year or so working the desk, I felt that I have achieved a solid working knowledge of the bail bonds industry.  Feeling bold one day I asked for a promotion:  I wanted to be a bail bondsman.  I was turned down, not because my boss didn’t believe in me, but because there wasn’t a need for another bonds person.

After some consideration, I decided to apply for work with a Las Vegas bail bonds agency.  I figured there may be a more of a need in Las Vegas than New Mexico and I was right.  I heard back within a week and was hired. 

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I have been pondering that question for days now, and can’t seem to find an answer.  In these days of Wall Street going bust, and high paying managerial jobs drying up, is it really worth getting an MBA degree?  There is a considerable amount of money and time to be invested in the course, and I am not sure if I’ll actually be better off with those three magic letters next to my name.

Higher education, of course, is always an excellent idea, no matter what the kind of economic times we live in. The economy will improve, stocks will rise sooner or later, and when that happens, who do you think firms will be looking for to restructure their organizations, and start making money again? Yep, that’s right! The MBA degree holders!

My parents, of course, think it’s an excellent idea, and will boost my career prospects, and I must admit I am slowly beginning to tilt to their way of thinking.  After all, with online MBA programs offered courses from so many of the top universities, it shouldn’t be hard to combine my regular job with an online college degree from an online university.  In fact, an online college is my only practical option now, both for its cost and time savings.  I am going to sleep on this for a couple of days, and then make a decision.

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Everyone wants a career that they can have fun in, rather than just a job they hate.  Some careers, however, are more known for being fun than others.  Here are the 3 top "fun" careers.

1. Writer.  Okay, maybe this is just my preference, but I love being a freelance writer.  It doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ve written anything famous or even well known – not every writer can be Stephen King, right — but it does mean that I write from home (or wherever I please) and have fun doing it!
2. Graphic artist.  There are lots of artists out there who can make a really good living, but personally I think graphic artists must have the most fun.  I have a friend who is a graphic artist, and she has designed things such as backgrounds and characters for video games.  Who wouldn’t like to work in video games, right?
3. Pro athlete.  I think pretty much every boy I knew in school wanted to be a pro athlete someday.  Usually the sport of choice was football or basketball, but there was also a group of die-hard soccer players at my school.  And now thanks to Tiger Woods, professional golf careers have joined that list.  Just like any other sport, a golf career requires some schooling, usually from a golf academy, in order to gain credibility.

Not everyone is lucky enough to work in a truly fun career, and quite frankly any career can be fun if you genuinely enjoy it.  These are just the top 3, in my opinion!

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You’ve decided that you want to hire a custom luxury home builder in FL to create your dream home for you. This project is special to you, though, so you have some concerns about what it’s going to be like to work with someone on this.

Although each custom home builder in FL will be different from the others, there are some basic personality traits that many of them share. If you can work well with someone who has these personality traits, you should be fine.

Here are some of the common traits that a luxury home builder in FL may embody:

• Creative. Custom design is an artistic field.
• Enjoys working with his or her hands. This is a builder we’re talking about here.
• Great work ethic. These guys don’t stay in a word-of-mouth business by slacking on the job.
• Laidback. Is there anyone in Florida who isn’t laidback?
• Quiet. Most builders, like many creative types, want to do what they’re doing with a minimum of extra conversation.

Despite these common traits, you’ll naturally click with some builders better than others. Hold out for the one that works best for you so that your home comes out the way that you want it.

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Picture this - it’s your junior year of high school and everyone around you is rapidly completing their college applications. Everyone’s talking about which types of colleges they are going to with the most popular choices being community college, liberal arts colleges and art or technical schools. When the conversation comes around to you, you say that you’re going to golf college. Everyone laughs at you. They haven‘t even heard of golf schools. You might be ashamed at first but hold out for awhile and see what happens.

Now picture this - you’re at your ten year high school reunion. The kids who went to art school are complaining about the menial jobs that they have to work to make a living while trying to create art. The community and liberal arts kids are lamenting the amount of loan money that they took out to study topics that turned out to be less than useful in the real world. The technical college folks aren’t at the reunion because they’re working eighty hour weeks to get an edge up in their engineering firms. And you’re sipping cocktails and contentedly talking about the satisfaction you derive from your golf career. You may have been the joke of your school, but who do you think is going to have the last laugh?

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