Fast on the feet and fast in the seat.

This might be the best way to sum up the kind of career Brian Stevens has fashioned for himself. As president and CEO of Conference Direct, a Los Angeles-based meeting- and convention-planning firm, Stevens and his company are always on the go-go-go.

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If you are thinking of continuing your education in 2010, you likely have more pressing questions on your mind than deciding what to wear on your first day of school.

The country’s harsh economic state has many of us reassessing what we want versus what we can afford, and higher education is not immune to that kind of scrutiny.

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Corner an economist at a cocktail party and he or she will tell you that the recession began in December 2007 and (technically) ended around August 2009, with about 7 million jobs lost during that period.

If you ask the same economist what to expect moving forward, steel yourself for talk about the pros and cons of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and how unemployment numbers are a lagging indicator.

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If you love math, and want to make a living working with numbers, you’re in luck. With some planning and knowledge, you can easily parlay your mastery of math into some very attractive numbers - a high salary.

The fact is that nearly every industry relies on numbers in one sense or another, whether it’s for forecasts, analysis, or research.

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Last year, Hollywood delivered what might be the first cinematic portrait of the “Great Recession” in the well-reviewed film Up in the Air.

Featuring George Clooney, the film tells the story of corporate hatchet man Ryan Bingham, who flies around the country delivering pink slips.

Thankfully, art does not always imitate life, at least according to the latest occupational projections from the U.S. Department of Labor.

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5 careers that are here to stay - even in a recession.

By Cherise Asato

“We’re restructuring the company.”

“We’re heading in a new direction.”

“We need to cut costs.”

These are just a few of the lines that have been given to workers who have recently lost their jobs to outsourcing or job relocation.

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Money. You can’t live with it, but you most certainly can’t live without it.

In your heart, you wish that you were doing something worthwhile. Something that makes a difference. But there are bills to pay, college funds to save for, and retirements to plan.

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In a competitive job market, maximizing the potential of your education could hinge on a question of numbers: How many workers might be hired in a given field?

Since crystal balls aren’t exactly what one might call reliable, the U.S. Department of Labor has done some projecting of its own when it comes to employment outlook.

Here’s a closer look at six of the fastest growing occupations, in terms of numbers hired, through 2016.

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7 Steps to Great Communication

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How easy to say - how hard to achieve!

Where are we in achieving this noble objective?

The Internet is in its 11th year of annual doubling since 1988. There are over 44 million hosts on the Internet and an estimated 150 million users, world wide. By 2006, the Internet is likely to exceed the size of the global telephone network, if it has not by that time become the telephone network by virtue of IP telephony. Moreover, tens of millions of Internet-enabled appliances will have joined traditional servers, desk tops and laptops as part of the Internet family. Pagers, cell phones and personal digital assistants may well have merged to become the new telecommunications tool of the next decade. But even at the scale of the telephone system is it sobering to realize that only half the population of Earth has ever made a telephone call.

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