Working on the Railroad

This article is about life for Sharon Carlquist, while working on the railroad. Sharon is a conductor for Metro North Railroad, a train that commutes thousands of people everyday between New York City and Connecticut. She works four hours in the morning, gets fours off, then puts in her last four hours for the day. This job requires a lot of people skills: collecting tickets and fares, answering passengers' questions and ensuring the passengers' safety. Conductors also coordinate the crew's activities, signal the engineers and make sure that the train is working properly.

If you do have an interest in being railroad conductor, then some helpful courses to take would be: electronics, math and having some technical and electrical skills. One other helpful thing, would be, getting to know some people in the business; try attending fairs and see counselors who would be willing to introduce you to people in your dept. of study.

E- Learning

This article is about electronic learning. Electronic learning(e-learning) is a way to gain college credit over the internet. It is a way for students who have a more demanding schedule, to take classes and work around their schedule so that they aren't making a schedule to work around their classes.

There are two types of E-classes. There is the Synchronous classes and the Asynchronous classes. the Synchronous classes are the classes that allow the teacher and the students to log on at a prearranged time and therefore conducting class through chat rooms or streaming video. Asynchronous classes allow students to log on anytime and during an assigned time frame to turn in and receive assignments, take tests, or post message boards.

The only question that this article leaves you with is.... " Is e-learning for you?" This article suggests that people who are easily determined to focus on the studies and are able to take attention to work on their own, can be successful with e-learning, but people who are easily distracted and prefer to work in a classroom setting, are better situated in a classroom.

Remote Access

This article is about the differences between working at home and working for a business in the city. There are many obstacles that take place when you have a job in the city: traffic, time and unfortunate occurrences. When working at home it is a lot less stressful. Jacqueline Colligan is an example of someone who lives both lives. Some days she is always on the go and the slightest change in her schedule can ruin her whole day. Then there are her other days when she has a shorter and less stressful morning.

Do you think that you are a person to spend the day at home taking care of your own business? Some experts suggested that young people should have more office time to get their social itch started in the business world. Someone who is more of a people person should definitely continue to work in an office, rather than at home. People who have other schedules to work around(kids), are usually drawn a bit more towards the working at home thing.

Building Pages

This article is about Alison Walsh who is a web site producer who is responsible for maintaining The N.com. She is the person on the other side of the website. She updates and produces the content that is shown on her website and makes sure that the website runs smoothly. She does some coding in HTML and also in the computer language. she uses software like Photoshop and Flash to design the website. On a typical day she will either design new characters for her website or even just update the fan and information on her website. She stays involved with other workers and isn't quite so sedated. There are many things to do considering that the digital world is evolving so rapidly. Sometimes it gets stressful.... but what job doesn't.

Protect the Digital Frontier

This article is about cyberspace. It talks about the different interferences and dangers for our national security that lie ahead in the future for our country. The cyber world is capable of a lot of things and there are people out there who can provoke so much of the bad that it can do. Hackers and specialists are capable of these things. They are able to create viruses, bots and worms inside computers and computer programing, in basically any area. Most of these damages cost the businesses, networks and agencies millions of dollars. Now the nation is looking to the future for people who are willing to protect the national security. There are also FBI agents, specialists and analysts who are there to capture the people responsible for hacking into top secret information. We look to a digital future... now we just need to find better ways to protect it.

'Net Working

This article is about one of the easiest ways to find a job... networking through the internet. The internet is probably the most valuable tool that you can use when trying to find a job. There are several place you can go on the internet to get yourself known to the people who you think are an asset to your career. The places where are you can go are: Myspace, You.com, Message Boards and Blogging. These sites give a chance for the employer to get a look at the type of person that you are and get a sense at what you are looking for. It is important to to keep track of the information that you share. DON'T GIVE OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION!!! It is very important to stay professional and not let your personal life get in the way with you professional life.Keep everything appropriate.

Jacob's Cool Computer Program

This article is about Jacob who is only a teenager at the age of 15. He has had an interest in computers ever since he was a child of 5. He began writing computer programs then and at age 8, he began taking computers apart and putting them back together. At age nine he was given word from his sister that a her school was throwing away many computers. Jacob decided to fix them all up. That is where he developed a successful idea... distributing these newly refurbished computers to families in his own hometown. Now Jacob has a plan to send these computers, not only to his hometown people, but also to prison inmates... so they can develop the skills that may one day help them get a job in the real world.