In Search of an Excellent You! 
"What the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve." -Dale Carnegie
Recessionary Salary Questions?
How much should I ask for? Can I still negotiate if I'm desperate to take a job? How do I know if I'm overpaid or underpaid? How can I hold out for higher pay when there's someone waiting in the hallway who'll work for lower pay? [...and they're just as qualified as I am, too?] Can I still push back on salary offers in these recessionary times? Or am I seen as greedy? How do I ask for better-than-average salary if I think I'm a better-than-average candidate?
Today you can download practically up-to-the-minute data for thousands of job titles at the speed of light. I suggest you consult these five sites for Salary data.
JobStar.org Nothing beats JobStar for getting to the raw data at its source! You'll find over 300 links to surveys from associations and magazines.
PayScale.com Nothing beats PayScale for up-to-the-minute salary information. These profiles enable PayScale to provide real-time and highly relevant information about what an individual should be paid based on their unique personal job attributes (job title, location, experience, skills and education). Salary.com Salary.com is the oldest commercial internet site for salary data. Originally designed with HR department in mind, it now offers info to individuals. It reports that in 2008 it had more than 2.4 million unique monthly visitors, out of a U.S. workforce of 142.5 million.
Indeed.com Indeed is a website that amounts to "one stop shopping" for job listings on the internet. They don't have proprietary listings from employers; instead, they are a free search engine for [almost] all the job listings and descriptions in cyberspace. As such, they are able to assemble a great number of salary ranges as part of their job postings. GlassDoor.com With voluntary input from employees at 14,000 companies, you can mine some helpful salary info from this site. It's a combination of the bell-curve statistical sampling of salaries attached to jobs like yours, and the unique things about you that put you at the first or 99 percentile on that curve.
What Is A Good Life?
The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars or a bank account or a home. Here's the ultimate expression of life in my opinion, and that is living a good life. Here's what we must ask constantly, "What for me would be a good life?" And you have to keep going over and over the list. A list including areas such as spirituality, economics, health, relationships and recreation. What would constitute a good life? I've got a short list.
1) Number one, productivity. You won't be happy if you don't produce. The game of life is not rest. We must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.
2) Next are good friends. Friendship is probably the greatest support system in the world. Don't deny yourself the time to develop this support system. Nothing can match it. It's extraordinary in its benefit. Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you.
3) Next on the list of a good life is your culture. Your language, your music, the ceremonies, the traditions, the dress. All of that is so vitally important that you must keep it alive. In fact it is the uniqueness of all of us that when blended together brings vitality, energy, power, influence, uniqueness and rightness to the world.
Recessionary Salary Questions?
How much should I ask for? Can I still negotiate if I'm desperate to take a job? How do I know if I'm overpaid or underpaid? How can I hold out for higher pay when there's someone waiting in the hallway who'll work for lower pay? [...and they're just as qualified as I am, too?] Can I still push back on salary offers in these recessionary times? Or am I seen as greedy? How do I ask for better-than-average salary if I think I'm a better-than-average candidate?
Today you can download practically up-to-the-minute data for thousands of job titles at the speed of light. I suggest you consult these five sites for Salary data.
JobStar.org Nothing beats JobStar for getting to the raw data at its source! You'll find over 300 links to surveys from associations and magazines.
PayScale.com Nothing beats PayScale for up-to-the-minute salary information. These profiles enable PayScale to provide real-time and highly relevant information about what an individual should be paid based on their unique personal job attributes (job title, location, experience, skills and education). Salary.com Salary.com is the oldest commercial internet site for salary data. Originally designed with HR department in mind, it now offers info to individuals. It reports that in 2008 it had more than 2.4 million unique monthly visitors, out of a U.S. workforce of 142.5 million.
Indeed.com Indeed is a website that amounts to "one stop shopping" for job listings on the internet. They don't have proprietary listings from employers; instead, they are a free search engine for [almost] all the job listings and descriptions in cyberspace. As such, they are able to assemble a great number of salary ranges as part of their job postings. GlassDoor.com With voluntary input from employees at 14,000 companies, you can mine some helpful salary info from this site. It's a combination of the bell-curve statistical sampling of salaries attached to jobs like yours, and the unique things about you that put you at the first or 99 percentile on that curve.
What Is A Good Life?
The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars or a bank account or a home. Here's the ultimate expression of life in my opinion, and that is living a good life. Here's what we must ask constantly, "What for me would be a good life?" And you have to keep going over and over the list. A list including areas such as spirituality, economics, health, relationships and recreation. What would constitute a good life? I've got a short list.
1) Number one, productivity. You won't be happy if you don't produce. The game of life is not rest. We must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.
2) Next are good friends. Friendship is probably the greatest support system in the world. Don't deny yourself the time to develop this support system. Nothing can match it. It's extraordinary in its benefit. Friends are those wonderful people who know all about you and still like you.
3) Next on the list of a good life is your culture. Your language, your music, the ceremonies, the traditions, the dress. All of that is so vitally important that you must keep it alive. In fact it is the uniqueness of all of us that when blended together brings vitality, energy, power, influence, uniqueness and rightness to the world.
4) Next is your spirituality. It helps to form the foundation of the family that builds the nation. And make sure you study, practice and teach. Don't be careless about the spiritual part of your nature, it's what makes us who we are, different from animal, dogs, cats, birds and mice. Spirituality.
5) Next - here's what my parents taught me. Don't miss anything. Don't miss the game. Don't miss the performance, don't miss the movie, don't miss the show, don't miss the dance. Go to everything you possible can. Buy a ticket to everything you possibly can. Go see everything and experience all you possible can. This has served me so well to this day. Live a vital life. Here's one of the reasons why. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well it will show in your face, it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.
6) Next are your family and the inner circle. Invest in them and they'll invest in you. Inspire them and they'll inspire you. With your inner circle take care of the details. When my father was still alive, I used to call him when I traveled. He'd have breakfast most every morning with the farmers. Little place called The Decoy Inn out in the country where we lived in Southwest Idaho. If a father walks out of the house and he can still feel his daughter's kiss on his face all day, he's a powerful man. If a husband walks out of the house and he can still feel the imprint of his wife's arms around his body he's invincible all day. It's the special stuff with the inner circle that makes you strong and powerful and influential. So don't miss that opportunity. Here's the greatest value. The prophet said, "There are many virtues and values, but here's the greatest, one person caring for another." There is no greater value than love. Better to live in a tent on the beach with someone you love than to live in a mansion by yourself. One person caring for another, that's one of life's greatest expressions.So make sure in your busy day to remember the true purpose and the reasons you do what you do. May you truly live the kind of life that will bring the fruit and rewards that you desire.
Dr. Manuel Escalante
Edward Rodarte, MBA
Dr. Manuel Escalante
Edward Rodarte, MBA
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