Office Romances Lead To Marriage

CHICAGO, Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Love is in the air and it's wafting its way through the office. Thirty-eight percent of workers said they have dated a co-worker at least once over the course of their career; 17 percent reported dating co-workers at least twice. Thirty-one percent said their office romance led them to the altar. This is according to CareerBuilder's annual office romance survey of more than 7,000 workers nationwide conducted by Harris Interactive© between November 9 and December...

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My Success Is Not Accidental

I know I make it look easy.Women admire me from all four corners of the world. I enjoy the best that life has to offer and I appear to do it with ease.What you fail to see are the long nights I spent perfecting my craft, skipping the parties, boyfriends and gossip sessions in favor of studying to become the best at what I do.I know I make it look easy and it is, but that comes after years of fumbling around, making mistakes and beating myself up for not getting it right. I couldn't allow myself...

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You're Not Ready To Buy A House If...

Life has a way of making us want to measure our success by reaching certain life milestones. By 18, we need to be headed to college. By 25 we should be married. By 30 we should have our first child and by 35 we should be running the PTA and managing our own businesses.You don't have to succumb to the pressure to keep up with the pace of your parents or friends. They're living their lives on their own frequency and you are allowed to do the same. No, you don't need to own your first home by the time...

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Natural Hair Competition Will Crown America's Next Natural Model

Don't miss out on Going Natural.Com's America's Next Natural Model, an annual beauty pageant that celebrates the beauty of the natural state of women's hair. In its 4th year, this pageant is America's Next Top Model meets Naptural Roots as 10 women compete in hair styling and photograph challenges that both stir and inspire women with natural coils to celebrate their beauty.This year's competitors are symbols of all things naturally beautiful. Meet the 2012 Miss Nappturality contestants, Chassity,...

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15 Ways To Measure Success

Why is it so much easier to label yourself a failure after a loss? This label sticks to our psyche hindering us from moving forward in life when it really doesn't have to.Instead of applying negative outcomes as the defining labels for our lives, how about we celebrate the victories that may not be as glamorous, but are still deliciously sweet.Here are 15 ways to measure whether or not you are truly a SUCCESS.Did you make it through an entire work day without punching your co worker?Did someone...

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EDITORIAL: Our Secret Second Bill of Rights

By Christina FerminPolitics and Society ColumnistOn January 11, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced his Second Bill of Rights during his State of the Union address to Congress. This Second Bill of Rights dealt with what he saw as economic rights for the people. He understood that the Bill of Rights was the citizens political rights and what was lacking in the new industrial century was an economic bill of rights to secure the “pursuit of happiness,” guaranteed by our wonderful Constitution....

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Strategic Efforts & No One Cares- Is It Because I'm Black?

By Te-Erika PattersonOrganizing the partnership between The Rebuild Your Life Project and Denny's Restaurant wasn't exactly a smooth process. I had to articulate my vision for a hiring event that would collectively offer job interviews to the South Florida community on a wide scale basis and a 5 member team from Denny's corporate had to revise and refine it.My goal was to have each Denny's restaurant in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to participate and have community members in need of employment...

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