At a recent gathering, I found myself sitting next to a man who worked for a building supply company. As we visited and shared thoughts about the present economy, he said that his place of employment had stopped hiring students for summer work, because so many family men needed jobs. “Unless,” he said, “the student ...
All through college I was so busy during the regular semesters that I was only able to work a few hours a week at a minimum wage on-campus job. This meant that during the summer break I needed to really work to make enough cash to take me through the regular college year. Fortunately there ...
Here in Alaska, our summer weather has been very unseasonably cold. June is typically our nicest and warmest month of the entire year, yet the average temperatures have been in the 50’s. When it rains, which it has been doing a fair amount, the temperatures feel even cooler. Because of this, I was really enticed ...
Summer may be still a few months away, but you might already be making plans about what to do, where to go and how you might support yourself during this season of leisure. If you are, look no further than the New Jersey shore. That area along the Atlantic coast from Ocean County to Cape ...
