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Weighing the Pros and Cons of a Career Break

Career breaks have never been more popular, as overworked employees look for some time away from their same old, same old routine. Most often people have one of two motivations for taking time off: either other priorities demand attention, or there’s a need to get away and gain some perspective...

Tags: BNET Editorial, Career, Professional Development, Plan, Employer, Break, Job, Organization

Articles 2008-01-03

School's Out -- But Not Really

It's official: We have survived our first semester of grad school. We've been out of class for almost a week now, but I wanted to make sure I passed econ before I started talking about survival. (I did.) It's amazing how quickly you can get back into...

Tags: School, Break, Jenna Miller

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Planning Financing for Your Career Break

A career break can be expensive, and money may well be the biggest impediment to following through with your plans. For example:How will you pay for living expenses during your break?Will you need a loan to afford retraining or travel costs?Will you need to take another job to bring in...

Tags: Finance, Career, Operational Accounting, Professional Development, Income, Financing, Payment, BNET Editorial, Break, Extra Income

Articles 2007-10-05

Get Motivated

How do you make yourself productive when you're having an off-day? I usually take a break and allow myself to play a game or watch a funny video on the condition that when it's over, I'll get back to work. Some days, that's just the ticket. Other days, I spend...

Tags: Break, David Goldenberg

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Hey, Superwoman: Learn How To Take A Break!

So what is the hardest lesson for many women entrepreneurs and executives to learn? Surviving the "Superwoman Syndrome" and learning to take a break. Too many women business owners think their enterprise won't go at all unless they're always around to start and steer the engines. As a result, they...

Tags: Gender And Diversity, Women, Break, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management

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Reloading the .30 Winchester centerfire: today, we just call it the .30-30

If there has been a more popular American rifle cartridge than the .30-30 offered over the past nearly 115 years, I certainly don't know what it is. Winchester's Model 1894 lasted for 110 years with well over 7.5 million being produced and Marlin's 1893 evolved into the Model 36 and...

Articles 2009-01-01

Barrel break-in?

I've read articles on rifle barrel break-in procedures, but I've never seen an article on handgun barrel break-in. Is there such a thing? Daniel R. Friemoth Via e-mail Only if you're really bored. Frankly, most handguns are simply not accurate enough to have it...

Articles 2009-01-01

Quick change

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Freedom also has a quick, barrel-change prototype single shot pistol that will handle the .224-.32 as well as a few hundred other cartridges. probably including the belted magnums, I recently shot it in 6.5 JDJ which is currently being used to test long range accuracy. I...

Articles 2009-01-01

Springfield's EMP 40

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Springfield's little EMP Enhanced Micro Pistol in 9mm has proven extremely popular. Even finding one for sale can be a challenge. Compact, lightweight, slim and concealable, accurate, reliable, with excellent workmanship; it's an outstanding carry pistol. My EMP 9mm is one I had on...

Articles 2009-01-01

Obsolete=ineffective?

[ILLUSTRATIONs OMITTED] My tattered, old desk dictionary defines obsolescence as "growing out of use." Just above it the definition roof obsolete is "no longer in use." Something that often amazes me is how often some shooters confuse obsolete or obsolescence with effectiveness. Just because a handgun has become...

Articles 2009-01-01

PRODUCERS EXPECT TO SPEND 3.5% MORE IN 2008 ON CAPEX

U.S. producers will increase their domestic spending from $78 billion in 2007 to $81 billion in 2008 (up 3.5%), according New York-based Lehman Brothers' annual spending survey. Most of the increased spending will target oil, given the continued uncertainty surrounding gas prices. "We believe that spending in the U.S. may...

Articles 2008-12-17

Lactose lessons: does dairy not do your body good? Here's how to get the protein benefits without the bloat

It takes a lot of protein to forge the kind of muscles you want. That's why you scarf down pounds of chicken breasts and lean beef, schools of fish, dozens of eggs and gallons of low-fat dairy products. It's important to eat a variety of protein sources, as they all...

Articles 2008-12-01

Vindicated Vinny: after 20 years of competition, Vinny Galanti earned his pro card with an awesome win at the 2008 masters nationals. follow his back routine and get the shape of a champion

DREAMS ARE FUNNY THINGS - SOMETIMES they have to be almost completely out of reach before you finally realize what you must do to make them happen. For a body-builder, putting some distance between you and your goal of becoming a pro can be accomplished in two simple steps: Stop...

Articles 2008-12-01

Movie Muscle

In "Reel Muscle" in the August 2008 issue, did you consider Kickboxer starring Jean-Claude Van Damme when you gauged your top-to training movies? It definitely should have made the cut. From kicking a tree and breaking his leg to having coconuts dropped from 100 feet onto his chiseled abs and...

Articles 2008-12-01

Brian McKnight

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Break out the eggnog and the mistletoe. Balladeer Brian McKnight infuses his Christmas album with his own smooth and soulful song stylings that put romance back into the holiday season. I'll Be Home For Christmas (Razor & Tie) is McKnight's first studio album in two years...

Articles 2008-12-01

Channel surfing

* Click to ABC. Three-time Ms. Olympia Iris Kyle was a contestant on the gonzo obstacle course game show Wipeout, and she did indeed wipeout, falling several times into what resembled a pool of Dream Tan. * Commercial break. Ageless pro body builder Betty Pariso appears in a...

Articles 2008-12-01

Jealousy & paranoia: relationship killers

It was one of the most humiliating and painful events of her life, but it wasn't the first time she was the victim of her husband's intense jealousy and paranoia. It was his family event, but because he had to work, the wife took their three sons to...

Articles 2008-12-01

Should gym memberships be tax-deductible?

87% YES "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. An incentive like this would save health insurance companies and the government a lot of money in the long run." J.C. HEYGOOD MARYLAND "It's important to reward people who make good decisions,...

Articles 2008-12-01

Fouling out: the cardinal rules of bodybuilding nutrition are broken every day—here are the eight biggest dieting offenses, and how to fix them

IF only we could hire referees to sit with you at your breakfast nook, your dinner table and your favorite lunch spot. If only someone with a discerning nutritional eye could look over your shoulder as you fix your pre-and postworkout shakes and cry "foul" when your protein-to-carb ratios didn't...

Articles 2008-12-01

FIVE BEST { Films }

WALTZ WITH BASHIR (18, ARI FOLMAN, 90MINS) Ari Folman's beautiful and horrifying animated autobiographical account of the first Lebanon War of 1982. It's a powerfully ambiguous meditation on personal and collective avoidance, reconstructing those terrifying days when he was a 19-year-old Israeli conscript. ...

Articles 2008-11-27