How Resume Writing Services Can Help You Land Your Dream Job

How Resume Writing Services Can Help You Land Your Dream JobProfessional resume writing services help companies and job seekers in drafting professionally written resumes. In addition, companies can also find one-on-one mentoring from writers on various types of resume formats. These forms often entail additional information such as educational background, past employment, employment history, and current work history.First impressions often mean everything when getting a job so resume writing services can create professional resumes that can help you land your dream job. One of the most important components to creating a professional resume is the content of the resume. You want to make sure that the content meets the standards of employers, or prospective employers. One way to ensure that your resume reflects your skills and talents is by doing some research to learn about your specific goals and qualifications.When it comes to resume writing services, they can help you learn the ba sics of creating your own resume. Such skills can be learned through practical experience. Most experienced writers can immediately give you an idea of how a resume should be structured. You can also find resume templates online and these help you get a basic idea of how a resume should look.Online writing services are quick to respond to requests. They have various resume formats available, which you can use in case you do not know how to draft your own resume. Some of the resume writing services can provide you with samples of well-received resumes. This helps you see how a resume should look before you hire a professional.It is good to consider hiring a resume writing service because it makes everything easier for you. There is no guesswork involved. The professionals provide helpful advice and guidance. These services can help you refine your skills and develop a unique resume to boost your chances of landing a job.Resume writing services offer more than just resume writing and editing. They offer a variety of services, such as career coaching and consultation, graphic design, marketing, and market research. They can help you plan and organize your resume so that it meets the expectations of recruiters and interviewers.Career coaching is important to building a strong resume. A coaching session can help you focus on the most important aspects of your resume and make sure that the content fits your needs. Marketing is also important. Whether you hire a resume writing service or create your own resume, marketing is important.Finally, if you already have a resume, your resume should include the most recent work history. Resume writing services can help you enhance the resume and create a strong outline for your career. By working with a professional, you can help yourself get a job. Hiring a resume writing service can be the beginning of a successful new career.

Why finishing your degree doesnt have to feel like an anti-climax

Why finishing your degree doesn’t have to feel like an anti-climax Have you just finished your exams and not feeling as euphoric as you expected? This was the sentiment expressed by some final year students I interviewed this week who described the experience of completing their exams as an anti-climax. Particularly so for those who hadn’t found a job or even considered how they wanted to use their degree. ‘I still don’t know what I want to do and Im feeling quite anxious about it…’ was a common theme. Not having a career aim probably didn’t feel like such an important issue in your first year, with the next 3-4 years of a degree stretched out tantalisingly in front of you. Your approach to choosing a career may have consisted of convincing yourself that, I’ll know when I know…it will just happen…something will turn up.’ These thoughts may have occurred to you if you were struggling to identify a future career path and wanted to put making a career decision to the back of your mind. You may now be considering employment for the first time as up to this point, there was a certain inevitability and expectation that you would go to university. But now reality has hit, you are about to graduate. You are losing the structure of an academic year, assignments and lectures and will have to become even more independent. If making this transition is unsettling and causing unexpected anxiety, consider the following to adopt a more helpful perspective. Recognise your achievement Take some time to reflect on your success. You will shortly be awarded a degree, something which you have worked really hard for and during which, you have developed valuable personal qualities. There may have been challenges and setbacks which have required determination and resilience to overcome â€" skills that employer’s value. You have been awarded a degree from the University of Warwick, an institution with an international reputation and currently the most targeted university by employers in the UK. Something which, on paper at least, makes you highly employable. You will develop a new structure If the lack of lectures and assignments has created a void, you will develop a new working pattern in your career. This may be with a high profile employer where you are on a graduate programme with a work place mentor to guide and coach you. You will develop a new circle of friends, many of whom may also be recent graduates providing mutual support during the early stages of your career. You can also keep in touch with your university peers by registering as an alumni  with the University of Warwick.  Linked In   can also be useful in this respect. Alumni can become useful business contacts in the future as well as providing advice to help you develop your career. The anticipation of starting your career It may not feel like it in these uncertain times after your exams but finding that first job will be highly motivating. The opportunity to use the skills developed on your degree and practically apply your subject knowledge in the workplace will be an exciting challenge. Your learning and intellectual curiosity will not just stop after graduation, just used in a different environment and context. If you are still not convinced however and feeling apprehensive about the impending career decision you feel you have to make, here are some approaches to consider: Take control. The variety of choices you have (the majority of graduate employers do not even specify a degree discipline) may feel overwhelming, particularly if you do not event know where to begin. It may be tempting to sit and wait for something to happen. This strategy could prove to be frustrating and ultimately ineffective though. Far better to take the initiative, be proactive and you will start to feel like you have a sense of direction. However small or insignificant that first step feels, it may be the beginning of formulating your plan. So set some realistic and manageable targets â€" create that Linked In profile, apply for some volunteering, enrol on a short course to develop a new skill, join a temping agency, for example. If nothing else research career options with your degree  , do any of them motivate you? Investigate the career  destinations    of other Warwick graduates from your degree discipline. Reflect on your values and motivations to begin matching yoursel f to the potential opportunities. The first job doesn’t define the rest of your career.  Don’t feel under pressure to find that ‘dream’ job immediately.Compromise, be pragmatic and accept that the first step in your career may be an opportunity to learn about yourself and the world of work. Maybe this experience will help you to find that ideal job later in your career as you develop a sense of what really matters to you Could a longer term strategy work for you? Ask yourself if you are ready to commit to your career or would a placement help you identify where your motivation and passion really lies? Graduate internships and initiatives such as the GTP  and KTP  could provide this insight Don’t be afraid to take a risk. A creative director in the advertising industry, Paul Arden (no I’ve never heard of him either) once said, ‘better to regret what you have done than what you haven’t.’ If the first graduate job isn’t right for you think about how valuable the experience will be in developing your self-awareness. It will also add to your skill set and provide further evidence of your employability to future employers. Lots of other finalists are in this position so if you are still finding it difficult to choose and find a career, be kind to yourself. Reflect on what an enjoyable and rewarding experience university has hopefully been. And look forward to the next stage of your career.

Legal Career Paths Examined What Is It Like Working in Medical Negligence and Malpractice Law

Legal Career Paths Examined â€" What Is It Like Working in Medical Negligence and Malpractice Law Finding a path in law that you find interesting, and where there is a good amount of demand in the area that you want to live in will stand you in good stead for a long and lucrative career after qualifying as a lawyer. However, with so many fields of law to choose from, it is not necessarily that easy to find out what type of practice you’d like to be involved with. Here, we take a look at the field of legal work concerned with medical malpractice and medical negligence UK, to help you decide if you think this might be a path within law that you’d be interested in taking as you move into your professional career as a solicitor. What Is Medical Negligence? Medical negligence covers a very wide range of scenarios, but at its core, what medical negligence solicitors are doing is representing people who want to make claims for compensation due to harm they have suffered as a result of preventable medical errors or mistakes. For a case to be likely to succeed in winning compensation, you would be expected to show that the client has suffered loss, injury or impairment as a result of the negligence, and that the care they received was below the expected standards. We’ll look in more detail at what kinds of situations lead to medical negligence claims later in this article. Medical negligence lawyers can be claiming compensation from either private individuals and organisations, such as specialist private clinics, cosmetic surgeons, and nursing homes, or from the NHS. How Big Is Medical Negligence as a Legal Field? Medical negligence is an area of law where claims can be very high. Because people who have been the victims of malpractice can have long reaching health problems as a result, or even die, the value of individual compensation claims can be large. There are, of course, smaller claims too where the outcome of the negligence was less catastrophic for the patient (for instance where they just need to cover the cost and loss of earnings for a second round of surgery to correct a mistake), but all in all the cost of medical negligence over a year does become significant. The NHS alone had £1.7 billion worth of successful claims made against it in 2016/17 (the latest data available), and this was a rise of £300 million on the previous year. This means that medical negligence is not only an in-demand field of law, but also that the demand for medical negligence lawyers is rising each year. The reasons for this may correlate with wider problems in the healthcare industry like understaffing and failings in regulation and monitoring, however even as controls tighten to help improve practices, the role of medical negligence solicitors in representing people when things go wrong and keeping surgeons and medical practitioners accountable will always be an important one. What Type of Law Firm Could You Work for as a Medical Negligence Solicitor? There are some law firms that specialise exclusively in medical law and malpractice, for example the medical negligence experts who take a range of different medical claims, even extending into dental malpractice and unsuccessful weight loss. Getting into a specialist firm like this one would be the obvious choice for a new lawyer looking to build a career in this sector of the industry, however there are also law firms that have multiple departments, some dealing with medical negligence, which you could work for too. Another option, further down the line, is starting your own practice. Naturally you would need to do market research to see whether the demand in your area would support a new company of medical negligence lawyers. However, due to the fact that medical malpractice cases can happen anywhere where people seek out healthcare, this is generally a field of law where you are not restricted to building a career or business in a major city. From this perspective, it can be a good choice if you want to work in smaller towns or rural areas where there may already be enough law firms to serve the needs of the area for things like divorce, property, family and tax law, but not necessarily for more niche areas like this. What Are Some of the Most Common Kinds of Medical Negligence Claims in the UK? Medical negligence claims UK can relate to just about any field of medicine, but the most common claims are around the following areas: Pregnancy and birth. The majority of claims relating to negligence in the treatment of pregnant women and newborns during pregnancy, childbirth and immediately after birth are against the NHS, as one might expect given that this is where most expectant mothers are treated. Cases can involve things like mistakes during childbirth that lead to damage to the mother, and negligence issues during pregnancy or birth that can cause brain damage to the child that could have been prevented. Many cases of cerebral palsy fall into this category. Diagnosis issues. Where diagnoses that would under normal protocols have been made correctly are missed or wrong, this can be a medical negligence situation. False positives can also sometimes be cases for negligence if treatment is administered without normal further testing or if the false positive was due to a mistake or error rather than within the normal parameters of diagnosing the respective condition. Surgical mistakes. If there was an error in surgery that led to unnecessary damage, including injury to organs close to those being operated on, or excessive scarring, this can be a medical negligence issue. There can also be more shocking cases where someone has been given the wrong surgery altogether, or had surgical items left inside their bodies after a procedure. Mistakes with medication. Medication and prescription errors can include a patient being accidentally given the wrong drug, told to take the wrong dose or being administered a drug that contains something they have a known allergy to. This can happen in hospitals and GP practices but also in other places where drugs are administered such as nursing homes and rehab clinics. What Kind of Process Does Taking on a Medical Negligence Case Follow? Many law firms specialising in medical negligence use a ‘no win, no fee’ model so that they can take on cases from people who cannot afford to hire them upfront, which can often be the case when people are the victims of something very unexpected like medical malpractice. This does however mean that law firms have to be selective about the cases they take on, as a high percentage of them need to win for this model to work. As a result, the process usually involves a free consultation with somebody who thinks they may have a case for compensation, where the lawyer will do some preliminary investigations. They will then either make an immediate decision about whether they are happy to take the case or go away and do some more research into the case first. If they believe the case is a strong one, they will then proceed, should the client hire them, to make the claim and follow its progress. Medical malpractice can be an interesting field because it is so varied and can also be rewarding as in many cases the people making claims really do need and deserve compensation.

What did you Learn Today

What did you Learn Today When was the last time someone asked you that? I’m betting that it was around the sixth grade, at the dinner table. While you were in school, you should have had a good answer to that question every day. Why is it that many adults give up on learning after they graduate? Oh, we don’t give up entirely, of course. Some of us have to keep up with our professions: healthcare regulations, the new tax code, programming languages. But when was the last time you learned something brand new to you in a field that has nothing to do with your job? Seth Godin has just published a 30,000 word manifesto on education. It’s a free e-book that you can access here. It should be required reading for everyone. In it, he writes, “We invest thousands of hours exposing millions of students to fiction and literature, but end up training most of them to never again read for fun (one study found that 58 percent of all Americans never read for pleasure after they graduate from school). As soon as we associate reading a book with taking a test, we’ve missed the point.” How can we teach children to read and learn for fun if we never model the behavior ourselves? When did learning and getting smarter start to be a bad thing? Seth Godin again: “A kid in love with dinosaurs or baseball or earth science is going to learn it on her own. She’s going to push hard for ever more information, and better still, master the thinking behind it… If culture is sufficient to establish what we eat and how we speak and ten thousand other societal norms, why isn’t it able to teach us goal setting and passion and curiosity and the ability to persuade?” Godin thinks it can.  Here’s how we can start. We can start by reading more often, and reading more challenging material. There are millions of articles, books and blogs on the internet that address any topic you might want to tackle. You can choose to start with the things that really do interest you: how to grow an organic garden, how to repair your car, or learning the history of your city. There are two homework assignments: think seriously about the topic, and then share what you think with others.   Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with saying, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Why not elevate the discussion around your dinner table to discuss ideas? My friend Bryan is always pushing me to read books he thinks are good for me. He thinks I read plenty, but I don’t choose topics that I’m naturally interested in. “For every book you want to read,” he says, “You should always choose a book you might never have picked on your own, but that covers an important topic.” Over the years, he’s loaned me books on theology, global warming, and the Plague. Yes, that one. With the rats. For my part, I’ve loaned him important 19th century literature that he’s never gotten around to reading. He’s been a good sport. Seth Godin says that school has been a terrible blow to learning over the years.  (Quoting an unnamed teacher) “’If we spend more time training inquisitive humans, we’ll have to give up on the basics, and that will mean nothing but uneducated dolts who don’t even know who Torquemada was.’ I’m worried too. But one thing is clear: the uneducated already don’t know who Torquemada was. The uneducated have already dumbed everything down to sound bites and YouTube clips.” At the very least, I hope that you will work on learning how to write better and speak better. As a writer, I’m biased of course, but I agree with what Godin says about writing: “We’re all going down the drain. Too much profanity, no verb conjugation, incomplete thoughts, and poor analysis, everywhere you look, even among people running for President. Writing is organized, permanent talking, it is the brave way to express an idea. Talk comes with evasion and deniability and vagueness. Writing, though, leaves no room to wriggle.” Godin challenges us to read 50 books a year. They don’t all have to be big and scholarly, but they should be well-written and teach you something new. Even 50 articles online about something new and challenging would be a great start. Let’s change the conversation at the dinner table, starting tonight.

How to make the most of your law placement when youre doing admin

How to make the most of your law placement when youre doing admin This post was written by an external contributor.  Roxanne Metz-Johnson talks about how you can make the most of a law placement even if youre not doing exactly what you thought you would be.   So you landed yourself a placement or internship at a law firm. Congratulations! This is it, the first foot in the door; you go in determined to make a good impression so they offer you a training contract or extend your placement. Obviously you won’t be advising big clients on deals alongside the partners, but you expect to at least see what your potential legal career would look and feel like. So when you get landed with the menial administrative tasks that barely touch upon legal work, you can begin to lose sight of that vision due to literally being prevented from seeing it. Dont let it deter you. I almost made the mistake of concluding that commercial law was not for me as I was not enjoying the work I did on placement. This was because the work I completed had almost nothing to do with what I saw myself doing in the future. Be proactive In an attempt to gain more from my experience than just call-centre work, I approached colleagues in different positions that I wanted to explore; from HR staff, to shadowing a solicitor and requesting to spend a day with one of the partners. Ask to spend time in a department of your interest or look into recent deals the firm has made and pick the brains of the individuals involved. The aim is to know, or in my case feel, what it would be like to do this on a daily basis. This is the only way you will know what you will enjoy doing in the future. Make sure you chase up these requests as your internship is there for you to gain invaluable experience. Don’t be afraid to get your money’s worth, figuratively speaking. Build up that reputation In regards to the admin work, whilst it can be mundane and unrelated to your career path, if you can excel in the tasks you are given it at least gets your name out there and can help you build connections. Getting to know the people in your place of work is fun if you just see it as socialising.   Get involved in charity events, volunteer at the pro bono clinic or offer to assist with decorating for the Christmas party. Inevitably there will be days where you simply dont have the energy to get involved with all the extra-curricular activity. This is the magic of socialising with your colleagues as they too, are humans, and will understand that you are not feeling up to the annual football tournament if you simply communicate this to them. Its all about communication Communication is a major key alert (DJ Khaled voice) to not only surviving but thriving in your law placement. If you are unsure of what you are being asked to do, speak to your line manager to clarify. If you are unhappy or uncomfortable with something at work, let them know or maybe even contact PR. Closed mouths do not get fed is a phrase that took me a while to implement admittedly, but you have to remember that you are essentially here to better yourself, and youll gain nothing from suffering in silence. Dont hesitate to make suggestions for areas of improvement in your team processes. This is likely to be welcomed by your team leader and you will feel a sense of achievement for making a useful contribution. Use the people around you If you feel the firm you’re interning for is the company you would like to qualify as a solicitor in, then speak to the practicing solicitors and current trainees there. They will have all the essential information you would need to know about applying for a training contract and what working there as a trainee and consequently a solicitor is like. Even if you have decided this firm is not for you, it is worth knowing what to expect from the application process and the training contract experience altogether. Ensure you also ask for application tips from the recruitment team as they are the people who literally hold the key to your success. Branch out to other departments While on my placement I was able to encounter lawyers from different offices of the firm who offered services and departments that my office did not. This piqued my curiosity and I requested the opportunity to do some work in the other offices that offered services I believed catered to my interests more. Although I did not get to do this due to a time restraint, I was able to get the contact details of the lawyers in those offices. The moral of this anecdote is to do your department research early (a firm-wide search rather than an office search will be more beneficial) and network, network, network! My law placement showed me what areas of work I absolutely do not want to go into and also taught me some things about myself. Treat your law placement as a term of self-actualisation rather than just a year (or however long) out working. This is your time to discover where you want your legal career to take you. Remember; speak to colleagues in different roles and in roles you’d like to be in, excel in the tasks given to you, communicate and network. Good luck! Connect with Debut on  Facebook,  Twitter,  and  LinkedIn  for more careers insights.

Contractual Conflicts How to Deal With Them How to Avoid Them

Contractual Conflicts How to Deal With Them How to Avoid Them Getting involved in contractual problems is not what you want when you’re trying to run a business. Anything that has the potential to cost you money and take your eyes off the work that matters has to be a bad thing, and contractual conflicts certainly fall into that category. That’s why you need to look at how to deal with these issues and prevent them going forward. You can learn more about that right now. How to Deal With Contractual Conflicts Hire a Good Lawyer First of all, you need to hire yourself a good lawyer who can help you out as you move through this process. They’ll advise you and show you the path forward when you don’t know what to do. They should have experience as a commercial lawyer and an understanding of contract law. So find one you can put your trust in. Understand the Grievance If you’re going to sort this issue out, you need to know where the other side of the argument is coming from. If you don’t even try to understand, you’ll probably never get anywhere. Talk and listen until you understand the situation, and if that involves having to admit your own mistakes in all this, then so be it. Try to Compromise You should then try to compromise with the other side so that you can get to the end of the situation as soon as possible. Resolving this will require a little compromise on both sides because the longer this rumbles on for, the more it will cost you in legal fees, which is not what you want. How to Avoid Future Contractual Conflicts Spend Time Clarifying the Terms First of all, you need to make sure that everyone understands the terms of the contract. And you will also need to make sure that everyone interprets them in the same way. If you all have a different understanding of the contractual terms, that’s no good for anyone going forward. Don’t Break the Terms Like it’s Nothing at All Some businesses don’t take their end of the bargain seriously because they think they can get away with breaking the terms like it’s nothing at all. That kind of unhelpful arrogance will get you nowhere fast when you’re running a reputable business. So stick to the terms and don’t take advantage of others. Account for Budgets Before Contracts Are Signed Financial disagreements and problems are often what drive these contractual conflicts. You should make it very clear in the contract who has to pay for what so that this doesn’t end up in a bitter disagreement later on for you and the other person. This should be done before the contracts are signed. Contracts can cause you a lot of problems if you’re not careful, so be sure to take note of what you’ve learned here. It could help you avoid the kinds of problems that no business wants to get itself tangled up in. It’s mostly about using your common sense and doing things by the book.

Grown-Up Gigs Wedding Dance Choreographers

Grown-Up Gigs Wedding Dance Choreographers When I first read about POP N WedLOCK on Effervescence , I think it might have taken me all of 30 seconds to head straight over to their Holla Back form and ask/beg Jessica and Karmen for a Grown-Up Gigs Interview! I mean, really two amazeballs ladies bringing in bank choreographing  weddding videos?! And with the best business name ever in all the land (in competition with Fart With Headphones On and Steak Me Home Tonight, a fictional steak sandwich truck on my fave new comedy, Happy Endings)?! How could I not ask/beg?! Youre welcome! ?? What did you wanna be when you grew up? Karmen: I wanted to be a veterinarian up until 9th grade, but I couldnt handle the death and mistreatment of animals  so I opted out.   Then I wanted to be a concert bassoonist up until I had to choose between music or dance for college.   I opted to be on top of the stage, rather than under it. Jessica: In Elementary school, I wanted to be a Scientist. I always drew pictures of myself in a white lab coat with crazy electrified hair, while holding glass beakers and test tubes. By the time I entered middle school, I went through a megalomanic phase in which I wanted to be famous when i grow up.   Seriously, that is what I wrote in my diary.   Whether it was acting or dance, I had to perform and I was always cooking up ideas for shows to put on at our middle school that Karmen and I both attended. We met in the 6th grade.   In high school,  Karmen and I both attended  Fort Hayes, the performing arts high school of Columbus, Ohio.    In the 9th grade, I auditioned for the musical, Into the Woods.   I had never auditioned for a musical outside of our middle schools plays. I was featured in leading roles in middle school and thought, well,  since Im a dancer, Ill be a shoe-in for this musical. After I finished my monologue,  the  acting teacher, Todd Decker, asked me what song I had prepared.    Song? I didn’t know you had to prepare a song for an audition. So he asked me to sing Happy Birthday. I did and two seconds after I finished the song, he burst out laughing. It was kind of cruel but this guy was a character. And so ended my dreams of acting. I laugh about it now but it was pretty traumatizing as a 9th grader.    That same year, Karmen and I were both asked to join the pre-professional program at our local, regional ballet company, BalletMet Columbus.    We trained intensively 25 hours (6 days a week) to become ballerinas.    It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I learned early on the realities of the ballet world and what it takes to make. That being said, I burned out on dance by the age of 19 and dramatically threw all of my pointe shoes in the trash but I always held onto my passion for being involved in dance in some way, whether it is teaching, choreographing, writing or cross-training dancers with Pilates. I always have side dance projects up my sleeve and I have even more ideas in mind for future endeavors. It also keeps me sane from my 9-to-5 grant writing job at GMHC.    I’m definitely in a place right now, though, where I’m really thinking about how to leverage my projects into a full-time job that supports me.    POPn’wedLOCk is the first (lucrative) step in that direction. BalletMet gave Karmen and myself a lot to work with in terms of dance. They made us take everything, from flamenco to afro-carribean, all types of jazz, modern dance and ballet.    We are diverse dancers. ?? How the heck did you form Pop N Wedlock? Karmen: Based on a phone call from Jess who came up with the idea.   Read the blog.   Lol. Jessica: I helped two girlfriend’s prepare a Bollywood dance for their wedding reception in 2009 and everyone went nuts at this event.    After we performed it the first time, everyone at the wedding asked if we could do it again while they do it behind us. Then, I told someone I knew how to do the Thriller, and when the song came on, I was pushed to the front and they asked me to do the dance while they mirror me from behind.    That’s when I realized, OMG, this could be huge! My friend Jason Conover, came up with the name POPn’wedLOCK, and the company was born.  Karmen and I used to try to learn pop dances together so it seemed natural for us to make this a business model. POP N WedLOCK is a partnership. Why did you two decide to go into this business together, instead of making it a solopreneur endeavor? How did you know the partnership would work out well? Karmen: Again, read the blog.   lol   But to not give a smarty pants answer we always ventured in creative projects together we both had a role and were comfortable with each other as creative individuals. Jessica: Karmen and I have been friends since the age of 10.    We went to the same middle school and high school and we attended the same ballet program from the age of 11-18 years of age.    I have a lot of fun bouncing ideas off of Karmen and she runs with it with her personal stamp of style. More importantly, we trust each other and I think that is necessary for partnerships.    We also know each other so well that we already knew (without even discussing it) what tasks I would do and what tasks Karmen is better suited for. We have set up a division of labor that works for us really well.    And it’s just more fun doing things with your friends ?? Did ya deal with any haters who told you that your idea was crazy (or something to that effect)? If so, howd you deal with them? Karmen: For me, I  never have dealt with haters on this project (I cut such obvious negativity out of my circle long ago), but there are distinct differences between the people who voice their support and those who dont.   To one person, theyll ask you all the time how your project is progressing because they either believe in what youre doing or just in you as a person.   All others will immediately change subject when youre speaking of positive things in your life, which Ive attributed to taking the role of haters.   They dont care or want to hear that your life is progressing in positive ways  and they wont vocally support you.   I dont confuse them with the patient voyeurs who like to see how it all pans out, these undercover haters cant help but show some disdain for your success. Jessica: I like Karmen’s answer. I’ve had the same response but for the most part, people respond REALLY well to the idea. Everyone loves the name. Thank you Jason and the genius ideas that come out of your head!   Even then with all of the warm reception, I always had doubts about the business and that is why it took almost a year before we officially incorporated as an LLC. There’s always that voice in my head that says, well, what if all of my work and money goes toward nothing? What if it doesn’t work out?   Although, I’ve always been mostly positive about the company, our recent feature article in the Philadelphia Inquirer finally changed my perception for good. If you had to give the current version of yourself advice to your Pre-POP N WedLOCK  self, what would you tell her? Karmen: I would tell Karmen of the past nothing new that my mother told me when I was bullied for being a band nerd   Keep working at what you love and let the chips fall where they may if you worked to the best of your ability, youll never be disappointed in the outcome. Jessica: The advice that I would give pre-Jessica, is that you’ll never know until you try.    If you have an idea to make money with something you genuinely enjoy doing, go for it and don’t worry about the outcome.    As long as the process is enjoyable, that is all that matters.