I have always been a naturally light hearted and joyful person. I love life, adventure and I have a good spiritual foundation.

But 4 years ago I had my heart broken. I went through a period of grief, followed by a depression. My work suffered. I was in grad school studying a subject I loved with a prestigious scholarship, but after the breakup I couldn’t focus anymore. Even after I got over the heart break the stress of not being able to make the deadline for my thesis enabled the depression to continue until it became a chronic condition.

I made the decision to leave grad school, as it was unhealthy for me to continue to be in that kind of environment. I gave up my career and my livelihood. I am happy I did it, because the healing began immediately after wards…I traveled, I fell in love again…I began to think about new creative projects and different kinds of work I might do in order to make a new life for myself. Now, I feel great and I am finally at the point where I can look back on everything that happend and marvel at how much I have learned about what is to be human–I have so much compassion and faith.

BUT!! I am now 30 years old, bright and well educated, but without the degree I worked so hard for, without any professional training, no letters of reference, and I am totally broke with a large student loan.

I need to try to build a career –but I am so far behind, and my resume has so many gaps. I know I am smart and enthusiastic and I have many skills—but I don’t look good on paper–certainly not on a resume—(ie unfinished projects, and years without any employment outside of a university setting)

How should I address this when applying for jobs? What kind of options do I have? How can I move on from the rubble of a life upset and rebuild again?

never is late for learn you are in a god edge, to get a career you never know when you will to need a diploma, so you have enthusiasm, and wishes to have a better education, just do it YES YOU CAN, you can try first with two jobs save money, for 8 months and try to back to scool

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. (Albert Einstein, 1949)
Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of the smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. (Albert Einstein, 1949)

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism.Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by a educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society." (Albert Einstein, 1949)
Reagan was a moron, sorry, but its true

He was a physicist not an economist, his understanding of economic matters were somewhat limited. In other words, outside of his field, he was no smarter than the rest of us.

I have a very high paying job (~$200k/year) and consider myself very fortunate. However, the job is stressful and I pretty much have to be available by phone at all hours of the day. Lots of big projects, lots of fires to put out, and people’s livelihood at stake with almost everything I work on. I also work with multiple time zones (Europe, China, Japan, All US Timezones) and it involves a lot of travel.

I get to spend about 1 week with my family per month.

Do people think a job like this is worth it? My salary will be increasing significantly over the coming years (nearly doubling) and I have excellent job security, but I wonder if this is worth it. Would you stay in a career like this?

I’m in my late twenties so it’s not like I’m near retirement. I’ll be at this for a while…

It’s probably worth it for a while. Make sure you do this some years, get a lot of money and retire when you’re 30. You’ll have money enough to lead a normal life.

Below i have my uni personal statement.. if any one could help proof read it for me and make any suggestions i would be most grateful thanks…

Why do I want to go on to higher education? Well, ever since I started secondary school at the age of eleven I have always wanted to pursue towards further education at university. Originally I wanted to become a Primary school teacher but since taking part in a lot of work experience in that field, my mind was suddenly made up that that this in fact was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I since have gained a great interest in the marketing industry, and I have come to notice that there are mass opportunities in the market, which has yet to be exploited, and I in the future want to do exactly that. I believe it would challenge my more creative side as well as testing my theoretical skills. I’m particularly interested in the more creative advertising side of marketing and the psychology behind it.
I’m very business minded and I have many ideas, which I can expand on in the future. But before I do so I want to be more knowledgeable about the marketing industry, because if I do go into this field of work then I want to know what type of characteristics I need to build on in order to be successful in whatever I do in the future.
My auntie is also part owner of a family business, so I have experienced business throughout my life and I believe this has contributed to my passion towards this subject. I have just recently undergone two weeks work experience at my aunties business. Here I helped to create leaflets and posters in order to reach out to the local and wider community. I found this thoroughly interesting and I now want to gain a much deeper insight into the marketing sector in order to pursue a career in the industry in the future.
In October I returned from a 2 ½ month voluntary project in Kenya run by a government scheme called platform2. The aim of the trip is to provide 18-25 year olds the opportunity to visit a developing country and get involved with global issues of justice and poverty. Whilst in Kenya I lived with a local family for the ten week duration and worked on an ongoing conservation project in order to help conserve the eco system by improving the livelihoods or communities adjacent to the forest through an environmentally sustainable income. This experience has undoubtedly broadened my perspective of the world. It has been portrayed to me that out in Kenya everyone was trying to help one another get by, they were all in the same boat. Here, most people are trying to just get in their own boat and sail their own course. Over there they know that if they don’t build a boat together, they sink. Volunteering in Kenya in an underprivileged community has undoubtedly developed my life skills and fostered the creativity within me. It has nurtured my ability to be flexible in changing conditions, and adapt and adjust to new environments and cultures. Platform2- ‘Some People wait for change to happen, other people volunteer’
All my experiences have made me keen to broaden my knowledge and given the chance I will do so with full dedication, determination and continuous persistence as I am a motivated, sophisticated and charismatic individual who believes you only get one chance to make a first impression and my recognition would be by accomplishing my objective which is to obtain a degree in the marketing field and make myself realise that I have worked towards my potential which thus will be the basis of my success in the future.

Please let me know if this works for you. I removed a bit of unneeded phrasing. You’ve made your points clearly, and I wish you success!

Why do I want to go on to higher education? Ever since I started secondary school at the age of eleven I have wanted to pursue further education at university. Originally I wanted to become a primary school teacher, but after much work experience in that field, I realized that this was not what I wanted to do. Instead, I have developed a great interest in the marketing industry, where I have noticed massive opportunities yet to be exploited; this is where I belong. I believe the industry would challenge my more creative side as well as test my theoretical skills. I’m particularly interested in the more creative advertising side of marketing and the psychology behind it.

I’m very business minded and have many ideas which I can expand on in the future. But before I do so I want to be more knowledgeable about the marketing industry; if I go into this field of work I want to know the characteristics I need to build on for success in this field.

My auntie is also part-owner of a family business, so I have experienced business throughout my life; I believe this has contributed to my passion towards this subject. I have just recently undergone two weeks’ work experience at her business. I helped to create leaflets and posters in order to reach out to the local and wider community. I found this thoroughly interesting and I now want to gain a much deeper insight into the marketing sector.

In October I returned from a 2 ½ month voluntary project in Kenya run by a government scheme called Platform2. The aim of the trip is to provide 18-25 year olds the opportunity to visit a developing country and get involved with global issues of justice and poverty. Whilst in Kenya I lived with a local family for the ten-week duration. I worked with an ongoing conservation project in order to help conserve the ecosystem by improving the livelihoods or communities adjacent to the forest through an environmentally sustainable income. This experience has undoubtedly broadened my perspective of the world. It became clear to me that in Kenya, everyone tried to help one another get by; they were all in the same boat. Here, most people try to just get in their own boat and sail their own course. Over there people know that if they don’t build a boat together, they sink. Volunteering in Kenya in an underprivileged community has undoubtedly developed my life skills and fostered the creativity within me. It has nurtured my ability to be flexible in changing conditions, and to adapt and adjust to new environments and cultures. Platform2- ‘Some People wait for change to happen, other people volunteer.’

All my experiences have made me keen to broaden my knowledge, and given the chance I will do so with full dedication, determination and continuous persistence; I am a motivated, sophisticated and charismatic individual who believes you only get one chance to make a first impression. Accomplishing my objective to obtain a degree in the marketing field and seeing that I have worked towards my potential will be the basis of my success in the future.

Try & try until you succeed – that has been the desperate desire & hope of UN. As such, the world should not anymore rely, dwell & wear itself out trying to reach an impossible agreement because carbon emission reduction is only a theory, more so an illusion that was based on a false (or perverted) science, thereby making the treaty legally invalid in the beginning (i.e., lex celebrationis in international law).

If nations submit to an agreement, it will sacrifice the livelihood & welfare of people, driving world’s economy to collapse. Production & consumption will naturally be reduced and lay-offs go with it. Sales will fall. World’s trade via exports & imports will be down. Stock exchange will surge, leading industries to bankruptcy & insolvency. Defaults on credits & mortgages increase. Nation’s GDP & tax collection will fall & deficit will rise. Then crimes will of course be rampant. On the other hand, without an agreement, the threat of global warming & climate change continues since O3 remains unrepaired. When disaster strikes, then all are in fear. Some will flee, be displaced & be killed. Huge destruction goes along with it too. And likewise, livelihood & economy will severely be affected. As a consequence, countries’ losses will rise. In either way, both choices will kill, deemed evils against mankind’s survival and these will destroy the principles of UN, particularly ECOSOC, responsible for economic, social & cultural affairs.

God answered in 2001 but the world did not listen for years thereafter. It trusted the perversion of science & oppression of people, in contempt of God’s way of creation. It depended on the authorities’ ill advices which were: “to prepare for natural disasters” and “to adapt & mitigate,” and therefore these negligence & ignorance will be the history of world’s guilt for these had caused greater damages, successive events of calamities & tragedies yearly.

Solution to combat global warming & climate change was offered on December 2, 2002 to UNEP, based in the Philippines, by the author Winston Kayanan. The author discovered that, in re-fertilizing the soil (particularly the 60% desertification in the world) via large-scale organic matter recycling, we can create photosynthesis (including chemosynthesis), unaffected by global warming to siphon massive CO2 and, in turn, release O2 in the same amount. This move via collective or unified action will render the traffic of trapped GHG to move & flow, simultaneously neutralizing other gases like CH4. It will cool climate & calm weather, repair earth’s O3 layer & transport water (its vapor by wind) to rebuild the glaciers back and thus solving the problem of WMO, most especially for UNEP & UNFCCC. In the process of re-fertilizing the soil, we could make it arable (from sand to loam to clay) thereby creating a man-made fertile soil, good & suitable for planting vegetation & trees. This will solve the problem of FAO, most especially for WFP with respect to food abundance & reliance against famine, malnutrition & starvation. If O2 will be continually & abundantly regenerated, it will improve earth’s environ, thereby strengthening the health & immune system of organisms (man including plants, birds, animals & marine life) to solve the problem of WHO, most especially for fighting AIDS & HIV, H1N1 and other epidemic. See! We can heal earth and make it breath naturally. And thus, we don’t need to oppress people by imposing emission commitments via killing transportation & industries because natural gases will revolve & circulate freely, i.e., CO2 emissions are taken by plants (as a food material) and O2 releases are taken by organisms (as a breath of life). This is in line with the author’s philosophy, “Be one or united with nature in order to preserve life.” So why do we have to oppose emissions when these will give benefits to the plant kingdom that would bring down excessive CO2 to 300 ppm or less? If you analyze Nostradamus’ prophesy, “In one night, trees that have long withered, will go green again,” what meaning will it best suit, carbon emission reduction or photosynthesis? By choosing photosynthesis, the world will consequently proceed to a thousand years of peace.

Kyoto Protocol had its fill of troubles, suffering misfortunes after misfortunes in a total of 15 deliberations. It has no wisdom in its words for it could & would never bear fruit. It does not please & appeal to nations because it has a false scale & false weight. This made UNEP’s earlier optimism to end up a disaster, a total failure. Wasn’t it Jesus Christ who said that a tree which does not bear fruit should be torn down? When a nation sensibly & justifiably opposes a treaty which is considered oppressive against people (as well as the economy), it makes her great – keeping democracy alive, and that should be the moral obligation of any government to the people which is ironically the moral lesson in Daniel’s vision (Philippine version, un-coded by the a

We should be preparing for the next ice age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png

http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm

Despite the issue of racial segregation of black people in town there are still few people in South Africa permitted to racial mixing. In the city for instance, the white and black are working together in recording studios where in the black people are chosen pertaining to their talent to become an artist. It is an opportunity to reconize their music culture and also provide a livelihood for those poor people of the South Africa. Some group of people living in rural areas conduct a concerts where in black and white people performing traditional music of Africa together as duets using guitar and ethnic instruments such as mouth bow. In some area in the city, african people organize a competition for black male choir singing (isicatamiya), but their judge was white. This event will be a landmark for good relationship to avoid discrimination of race. We can also look on a different point of view that these black people inentionally used white man to be judge inorder for them to tell their feelings and sentiments on the issue of discrimination through music.

Despite the segregation of black people in town, there are still a few people in South Africa prone to racial mixing. In the city, for instance, the whites and blacks are working together in recording studios. The black people are chosen according to talent to become an artist. It is an opportunity to recognize their musical culture and also to provide a livelihood for the poor people of South Africa. Some groups of people living in rural areas conduct concerts where black and white people perform traditional African music in duets, using guitars and ethnic instruments such as the mouth bow.

In one area of the city, African people organized a competition for black male choir singing (isicatamiya), but their judge was white. This event will be a benchmark for good relations between the races. The black people may have intentionally used a white man as the judge in order to share their feelings on discrimination through music.

Gordon brown said this in April 2008: " it is understandable – and this is what we have got to deal with – that in Europe and America worries exist. It is worrying that the dominant response is not to welcome this new competition, but that people are in fear of their jobs and their livelihoods.We see in America, particular, protectionist sentiment growing. This raises the question as to whether in response to this more testing global economic outlook the world will relapse into the counter-productive but familiar defensive and negative protectionism. under the illusion that people can stop change, they will deny themselves what are the competitive benefits of globalization."

From an economic perspective critically assess whether or not the claim that protectionism is counterproductive is merited.

It definitly could be counterproductive

Not buying other countries products will cause a drop in trade, and the other country will stop trading with you as well

Isolationism ruins the markets you have outside of your country. This means cheap foreign workers as well as people willing to buy your products

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by cutting off from other countries the country would definitly have a decrease in exports and cash flow, therefor limiting jobs

not trading and competing brings the bar and necessity of moving forward down and limits progressivism and moving forward

Overly protecting domestic things will in turn affect foreign relations and will in turn affect the global situation.

in a socialist economy, factory workers would have a voice in the actions of their company as a whole, like in a democracy.
in a capitalist economy, owners who may not even live in the same state as the factory would make decisions affecting the livelihoods of all of the employees while only considering the bottom line.

i realize this is simplistic but if you disagree with the basic premise can you tell me why?

Considering that a large number of jobs have been outsourced from America (capitalist) to China (socialist/communist), I think the answer is clear.