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Book Review: I Got My Dream Job and So Can You

BOOK REVIEW - Cover “I Got My Dream Job and So Can You” by Pete Leibman

c.2012, Amacom $15.95 / $18.95 Canada 246 pages, includes index

So what are you gonna do after college?

That’s the question that’s irritated you for the better part of eight months. Everybody’s been asking you and if you knew, you’d tell them.

The thought of taking a job just to have a job makes you feel awful. You can’t imagine getting up Monday through Friday to do something you hate while other people are doing jobs you’d kill to have. So, short of violence, how can you snag a once-in-a-lifetime position?

Read the new book “I Got My Dream Job and So Can You” by Pete Leibman, and you might find out.

What would you do with 5 million minutes?

Murrieta Chamber Honors Business and Citizen of the Year Nominees

It’s that time of year for the Murrieta Chamber of Commerce to honor the Businesses & Citizen of the Year as well as install our new Board of Directors. The 52^nd Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Ceremony will be held at Monteleone Meadows on June 9^th. The nominees are:

A Special Salute to Successful Women

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Welcome to our 2012 special issue introducing you to some of the 'Successful Women in Business' that make up our thriving communities. For nearly a quarter of a century The Valley Business Journal (a woman-owned business), has been providing our readers the most up to date business news in the Temecula Valley. During that time we've seen four local cities born and a host of businesses grow up to support the burgeoning population of Southwest California.

Whether or not you believe Mitt Romney's recent claim that 92% of jobs lost under President Obama have affected women, the simple fact is that women in the labor force have been impacted more severely than men during the past three years. The reasons for this are myriad but the easiest to understand is that women were generally spared the worst of the early recession, accounting for only one-quarter of the jobs lost. Men, on the other hand, were hit hard by the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries - the sectors leading the downturn, leading many to label those early days a 'mancession'.

“Save the Assistants: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Workplace”

save-assistant by Lilit Marcus

c.2010, Hyperion $14.99 / $18.99 Canada 241 pages

It was never something you aspired to. When you were a child, you never thought, “Gee, I want to be an office assistant someday.” You never played assistant-dolls or drew pictures of your future cubicle. Even in college, becoming an assistant was never on your radar. But now you’re an assistant and there are good days and bad; more of the former, if you’re lucky. But if not, well, then read “Save the Assistants” by Lilit Marcus. There is hope for you from both sides of the desk.

After graduating college with an English degree, author Lilit Marcus headed for New York where she planned on becoming a writer, her head filled with dreams. But the reality came quickly: she was a “grown-up” now, with bills to pay.

Will Homeownership in America Become Out of Reach?

outreach According to recent studies, it is widely perceived that we Boomers will be the first generation in this country to pass on a less prosperous and bright future for our children. I’ve just returned from a week in Sacramento followed by a week in Washington, D.C. and nowhere is that prophecy more clearly demonstrated than by the current attack on the future of housing in our country.

As National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello phrased it, “We are facing a perfect storm which, if brought to fruition, will bring a future in which only a certain class of people will be able to afford homes.”

How so? Well, as you read this Congress is debating several key issues, none of which they know anything about. First and foremost is the future of your homeownership tax benefits, you mortgage interest and property tax deductions. This breaks into three areas – your primary residence, and/or any home worth more than $1 million dollars, and/or any second home or investment property.

The 2^nd & 3^rd options are more easily salable at this time because, as we all know, only ‘THE RICH’ have homes worth more than $1 million or have a 2^nd home. If they can get that program sold, they’ll come after your primary residence somewhere down the line, you can bet on that. Home ownership strengthens our country and homeownership tax benefits have been a cornerstone of that strength for over 100 years.

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