Employment
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Toqueville
Employment Advice and Tips to Help Your Career and Job Choices
Making good employment decisions is critical to your happiness and prosperity. It is useful to know something about your local economy, your home state, and maybe even a few things about employment data in the United States an internationally. There are many reasons you might want to sharpen your skills and knowledge about your own career choice and its place within the economy that affects you currently and in the future.
Breadwinners for households typically spend at least eight hours per day (a third of their lives) working. In the age of technology and communication access that makes many employees available around the clock, there are so many factors to consider with regard to employment.
Prosperopedia.com takes on topics that affect employment. Our contributors are experienced in employment topics that affect you, whether it’s determining what education and other qualifications you might need for a particular job or a new career, how to develop the most essential skills and traits for being a successful employ generally, understanding your value to a company so you can negotiate a competitive salary, whether you should take the leap and start your own business, or where to go for help with any of those topics.
We hope you enjoy what we’ve written and hand-picked here to help you with the employment part of your life.
How to Become an X-Ray Tech
Imagine being an integral part of a patient’s healthcare journey – a bridge between physicians and patients, facilitating understanding, and ensuring the delivery of the best possible care. Welcome to the world of an X-ray technician, a dynamic field within healthcare where technical aptitude meets compassionate patient interaction. X-ray technicians, or radiologic technologists, play a…
United States Employment Statistics for 2022
This list of employment statistics for the United States is a comprehensive look at careers, education, salaries, and other aspects of the US job market.
How to Make More Money
There are lots of ways of making more money, which will help your financial situation improve. Here are some of my favorites.
7 Best SEO Tools for Internet Marketers
Search engine optimization has been a marketing thing for a long time, essentially since Google changed the way people access information on the internet. As Google took on the task of indexing and ranking public websites and its user base grew from thousands to millions and now into the billions, tools have been created for…
How to Build a Successful Drop-Shipping eCommerce Business
There was a time in my life when I was struggling to figure out how I would support myself and my future family. As a student at Snow College more than 20 years ago, I remember being afraid I was going to get fired from my $5.50/hour job, which involved swapping out hardware and installing…
How to Set Up a WordPress Website
So, you’re ready to get started with your own WordPress website. That’s not a bad idea. Based upon a survey of content management systems (CMS) used to publish content on the web, WordPress came in first by far at 41% (as of April 2021). The second place CMS according to the survey (Shopify), had only…
How to Register a Domain Name for Your Website
Are you building a website? You’ll likely need to get yourself a domain name to go with it (unless you already have one). I’m going to explain how to reserve for yourself (or your company, non-profit, or whatever organization you represent) a domain name that you can use as the “home base” for whatever it…
How to Close Your Stripe Payment Processing Account
There are lots of ways for online merchants to accept payments. Stripe is one of them. Setting up a Stripe payment processing account is one of the easiest ways to start accepting payments online, although there are several cons for using Stripe, including the comparatively high percentage of your sales they take as a commission…
How to Add Google Search to a BigCommerce Store Website
I’ve used BigCommerce for awhile as my ecommerce sales platform. I currently host my medical products store (ProHealthcareProducts.com) on the BigCommerce platform. While the BigCommerce shopping cart system offers a lot of great functionality and has solid performance, it has its limitations. One of the most obvious of those limitations is the default search feature…
Internet Marketing Strategies Quick Reference Guide
Marketing your product, idea, or business on the internet is likely the most efficient way you can gain exposure, customers, and revenue. But what channels should you use?
Here is an overview of all the major internet marketing venues available.
Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University
If you listen to talk radio much, you’ve most likely heard of Dave Ramsey, the radio personality who talks about money, debt, budgeting, investments, and related topics Monday through Friday each week. His show is broadcast on over 500 radio stations throughout the country to an estimated audience of over 6 million people on a…
Starting and Growing a Business
In this article, I will be discussing topics associated with starting and growing a business. As an outline for this discussion, I will be using the manual for a course called Starting and Growing My Business for Self-Reliance, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS Church or…
Pros and Cons of Owning an Amazon Business
Over 200 million people visit Amazon.com each month. Amazon’s web traffic is unique in that most of the people on that ecommerce are there with the intention of purchasing. Amazon has over 100 million Prime members, meaning they purchase a high percentage of the things they buy on a regular basis from Amazon. For anyone…
edX Courses Create Affordable Opportunities for College Credit
The cost of a college education has skyrocketed from the last generation to the current one. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1985, the average cost to finish school at a 4-year college, including tuition, fees, and room and board expenses, was $12,274 (adjusted for inflation; the actual average cost then was…
LDS Personal Finances Self-Reliance Budgeting Course
Taking control of your personal finances is one the most important things you can do to experience the blessings of prosperity that are available to those who are willing to obey the principles upon which those blessings are based. Under the influence and in the grasp of the materialistic society in which we now exist,…
How to Register a Trademark
Article Summary For entrepreneurs and other business owners, having a registered trademark helps you to protect the intellectual property you’ve worked hard to create. The process of registering a trademark usually takes a year or longer, and typically cost about from $1,000 to $5,000 using a trademark attorney. The ultimate cost depends upon how difficult…
Seven Figure Income Bloggers
Over the past year, I’ve made a determination to make this blog my full-time income. I’m hoping to make it a very large income at that. In fact, my goal is to get this website, Prosperopedia.com, to a level where it’s netting over a million dollars per year. You’ll often hear folks refer to the…
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program
Article Summary The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program was established by the federal government to allow professionals to have their student loan debt forgiven. Participating in the PSLF program requires you to work for a qualified employer as specified by the US Department of Eduction. Qualified employers include government and non-profit organizations. Only Direct…
An Online Lead Generation Strategy That Always Works
Prosperopedia.com, the encyclopedia of prosperity, is dedicated to helping our community become more knowledgeable about how to be prosperous. To that end, this article describes a strategy for efficiently growing a business built on product marketing and sales using a proven lead generation strategy. Article Summary This article describes the steps involved in creating an…
Average Medical School Debt
The average debt load for a graduating medical student coming out of medical school is about $200,000. That number comes from a report submitted by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to Congress in June, 2019. That report, entitled, The Doctor is Out. Rising Student Loan Debt and the Decline of the Small Medical…
VA Ebenefits Military Veteran Benefit Portal
Prosperopedia.com is dedicated to helping people understand what they can do to be prosperous, to save money, build wealth and enjoy an abundant life. For those who have served in the armed forces of the United States of America, there are benefits that come with being veterans of those institutions. Access to those benefits is…
What is a Nanodegree? Udacity’s Revolutionary Education Model
Prosperopedia.com’s mission is to provide resources and guidance to our visitors that will help them make good educational and financial decisions. In keeping with that mission, this article about Udacity introduces their Nanodegree opportunities as a way to improve earning potential through “nano”-sized learning models that are the future of technology education. Education is changing….
How to Build a Billion Dollar Company
The quickest and likely most efficient way to start and build a billion dollar company is to create and sell a software product that has appeal to the masses. To build a billion dollar company, you’d essentially need to assemble and manage a team capable of creating, effectively marketing and selling the software, along with…
How To Create and Use a Gmail Account
Setting up a Gmail account is easy. It’s also free. And Gmail accounts are highly useful for lots of different things, some of which I’ll get into later in this article. If you don’t have a gmail account yet, it’s never too late to jump in and set one up. I’m going to show you…
How to Downgrade (Cancel) Your Professional Amazon Seller Business Account to Individual
In this article, I will explain how to downgrade your Amazon Seller account so that you’re not being charged the monthly seller fee by Amazon. This is useful for Amazon sellers who are not selling enough to make paying the professional seller fee worthwhile. If you are ready to take your Amazon business to the…
Scott Voelker TAS Inner Circle Mastermind Group Review
This article reviews my experience participating in Scott Voelker’s TAS Inner Circle. I hope you find it beneficial as you make a decision about whether to participate in that group or to join another Amazon coaching program (or any coaching program for that matter). I recognize that business owners are all unique, and have varying…
Real Estate Agent Internet Marketing and Lead Generation Guide
Article Summary This article discusses my experience with real estate agents and the way they typically do marketing, most often online. More importantly, I present a checklist of items any real estate agent can do to build an online pipeline of client leads to grow a business helping people buy and sell homes. Here is…
The Importance of Offering Free Shipping for Ecommerce Businesses
The landscape of ecommerce has changed drastically since I started my first online business about 20 years ago. When I first began selling drop-shipped products on websites or sourcing products to sell on eBay, it was seen as normal to require the customer to pay shipping costs. In fact, many sellers on the various online…
Why I’m Teaching My Kids to Code
I really don’t want any of my children to be a coder for a living. But I’m teaching all of them to write code. Here’s why. My Own Software Development Experience There was a time in my life when I thought I would spend my next thirty or so years employed in a career, from…
How to Install and Use Google Analytics with Your Website
Several years ago, I was asked by a company that had over 50 employees to help their struggling marketing team, who was sending over to the sales team under the name of “qualified leads” simply a list of names, phone numbers and email addresses (many of them outdated) that had been purchased from Data.com. Desperate…