Virginia Bola's Articles

  • Weight Loss: The Cheat Codes
    We hit a plateau and no matter which way we turn or what strategies we use, the scale refuses to budge. For those days that threaten our best laid plans, we need our own diet cheat codes.
  • Weight Loss: Suicide By Chocolate
    We weight watchers are so gullible, so naive, so desperate for relief from the drudgery and boring routine of a diet, that we clutch at any straw that promises an interruption to our misery.
  • Politics: Creating An Unsafe World
    What have we created -- a more unstable, troubled, and violence-prone world; an earth that shudders at the armed convulsions racing across its brittle, fragile surface.
  • 9/11: The Psychological Fallout
    The goal of terror is to change the enemy through the psychology of threats and fear. Each new step we take to modify our lifestyles and our dreams,moves us further away from the totally free society we built so long and so painfully.
  • Death Of The Internet: The Duplicate Content Glut
    Scams are not just the phishing sites, the strident letters from African widows, or the non-existent lottery winnings, they are also the shysters and cheaters who pass off the creations of others as their own.
  • Prolonged Unemployment: Reconnecting With The Labor Market
    If you have been unemployed for an extended period of time, you know that potential employers are going to look at your long period of unemployment with a jaundiced eye.
  • Unemployment: The First 48 Hours
    In homicide parlance, the first 48 hours of an investigation are crucial. Similarly, there are many aspects of unemployment and job search that need to be addressed as quickly as possible.
  • Unemployment: Become Your Own Job Coach
    Try reframing your perspective and instead of looking at yourself as an unemployed applicant, think of yourself as a professional job coach. Your mission is to assist someone in finding work. Luckily, you have only one client to devote your time and effort to: YOU.
  • Job Seeker Secrets: Recycle Your Job Search
    If you have been out of work for quite a while, you have undoubtedly pursued a standard job search campaign: the unemployment office, newspaper classifieds, job fairs, online resources, agencies, networking, and cold calling.
  • Job Seeking Secrets: Organize Your Attack
    A systematic approach to job search can help you focus on your goal, avoid wasting the energy you need to conserve for interviews and employer contacts, and lower your stress level.
  • Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity
    In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled.
  • Job Search Secrets: Make An Organizer
    Creating a central organizer for our activities can help assure that we have a clear understanding of where we've been and what we've done, and provides a private resource chart for on-going contacts and re-contacts.
  • Job Seeking Secrets: Time Management
    The rigors of job search are magnified by the turmoil we experience: lack of self-confidence, humiliation, financial pressure, and the undercurrent of emotions that color all we do -- fear, anger, depression, anxiety, loss.
  • Unemployment Blues: Jobs and Immigration
    What are those positions we keep hearing about that Americans refuse to take such that they must be filled by illegal immigrants?
  • Employment Issues: The Night Worker
    In the process of musing about our perennially awake world for my Social Psych blog, I started to think about our present work world and how its 24 hour operations have changed the lives of millions of workers.

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