Helpful Winter Tips!

I received an email the other day with some neat tips to make life a little easier this winter season. Here they are!

Keep your headlights clear with car wax - Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights, rub it in and wipe off the excess. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights - lasts 6 weeks.

Squeak-proof your wipers with rubbing alcohol - Wipe the wipers with a cloth saturated with rubbing alcohol or ammonia. This one trick can make badly streaking & squeaking wipers change to near perfect silence & clarity.

Ice-proof your windows with vinegar! Send Frost on its way - Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water & sprits it on all your windows at night. In the morning, they'll be clear of icy mess. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which raises the melting point of water---preventing water from freezing!

Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray - Spray cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel. The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber.

Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream - Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe if off with paper towels. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers.

De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer - Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key & the lock & the problems solved!

Source: Waikem

Labor Market Info. and Education

When I decided to further my education, I chose to study something I love. The problem is that the demand for French majors is not very high. I ended up having to go back and take classes on accounting, trying to get a better job.

I learned about using Labor Market Information (LMI) when I was a Veteran Rep. (11 years too late to help me with school). It is an excellent tool to help you decide which jobs/careers are going to be in the most demand when you finish. It also tells you the average salary and how much training is needed.

Take, for example, this list of the fastest growing occupations which projects out to 2018. If you follow the link, you will find the top 50 fastest growing occupations. This can help you decide what field to pursue depending on your goals. For example, if my goal were to get a job quickly, I might look into becoming a home health aid or personal/home care aid as they require the least training and appear to have the most actual job openings.

You can also use it to look up the specific career you are interested in. You can go to the Occupation Profile page, type in the job you are interested in or choose from the list, choose your state, and viola! It gives you information about it on both the national and state level. If you look at the wage comparison for a“financial examiner”, you can see what wages are for Ohio and nationally in the same table.

The profile will also tell you employment trends; knowledge, skills, and abilities needed; tasks and activities you will likely perform; tools and technology used; education and training needed; and related occupations. These occupation profiles are very complete and give a solid idea of what to expect in each occupation.

Labor Market Information is a useful tool to help you choose the most lucrative field that matches your interests. I will be happy to help any individual or group navigate through and use this information. Just let me know by sending me an email c4canne@gmail.com or calling me at (937) 260-1985.