I again relaxed a bit last two weekends and didn’t publish a reader chit-chat. Welcome readers, I can’t thank you enough for sticking with the blog. I often write craps, I admit. But not always and intention is never to write a crap.

The project I talked about in past weekly chit-chat is now making my life miserable. It was supposed to happen that way, as we were not given much choices to decide on the delivery date our-self,  it was given to us by the  upper level leaders. We ramped up resources like anything but, still we are short of hands. And, when you hire a new resource, existing resources get stressed because of additional up-skilling tasks they need to perform.

If you are not in computer software industry, let me tell you the last-minute mad-dash is a constant feature in every project and in every company, starting from Microsoft to Google. Developers and testers spend literally their 24 hrs in office during some critical deployments. Yours truly spent quiet a few such days in office in 12 years of working life so far.

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Interesting data caught my attention today. Bureau Of Labor Statistics published American Time use survey results for 2011. The result tallies with the general belief that men do more outside work and women helps more with household work. The difference is not much, and I am sure the work division is least among other countries.

I am going to present some of the important facts that came out of the survey.

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You may not get a paid job during college years or when you are fresh out of it but, you can get plenty of unpaid work as an intern or volunteer for local organizations. How can you use it to your benefit, both as an employee and as an employer.

Getting involved in unpaid work is nothing but investing in the future 

For an active job seeker, student or university graduate, unpaid work experience is more important than ever to assist in standing out from the crowd in today’s hyper-competitive job market. Here’s one related article on unpaid work from CNN Money.

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Retirement is one of the most frequent topics in personal finance blogosphere, next to perhaps saving money tips. Retirement is the destination of our financial journey. Almost all PF bloggers agree that there’s only one major aim to save for, retirement.

Question here is, what can you do now to take an early retirement? I am trying to put a picture of what is needed to achieve it.

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We, at times, publish materials which fit more to the businesses. When we do that, we do also post a general financial article within few hours for our regular readers. This is one such exceptional post. We promise to bring another finest article within next few hours. This article is about Australian Govt. Tenders and how businesses use the system effectively to win those tenders.

Suppliers now have something to smile about when it comes to their acquisition of tenders that have proved to be quite competitive over the years. The most competitive ones being the government tenders that have been receiving many applicants but only allocated to the favorite few.

There is the online platform through which interested tender applicants can now be able to increase their exposure as well as heighten their likelihood of being chosen for varied tenders offered by the government. The solution lies in the Cordell government tenders that are an online domain assuring the competitive suppliers of being able to guarantee them of the best services.

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