Asha Anujeeva

I really love to use the Internet to pay my bills online. I love to set up the autopay feature on my credit cards so that the minimum payment is always paid so that I don’t incur any late fees. Of course, I send in more money than the minimum payment, but I set it up that way just to cover my backside just in case.

One thing that annoys me is when I try to set up autopay with a company and they require that you download a form, fill it out and mail it in with a voided check. If I wanted to do all of that, I wouldn’t be trying to sign up for autopay in the first place! So I arrange with my bank’s BillPay service to send those payments in for me. There is more than one way to skin a cat!

I don’t know why I’m always surprised when I go out to run errands on my lunch break and see so many people walking around town in their medical scrub clothing.  After all, this town has a large hospital in it, and I’m sure that some of the employees have errands that they need to run during the work day on their break or before/after their work shift.

I always feel like in the middle of a television filming set of scrubs!  Today I saw a few nurses eating lunch at the table next to mine, and one of them was wearing a cute set of scrubs – it was tailored and looked good on him.  I asked him where he had found that set of scrubs and he wrote down this web address on a napkin for me: http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Men/. 

I went to that website and browsed around and found a great page full of really nice-looking lanyards.  I’ve often wondered where people could get nice looking lanyards – well they have them there!  They cost a lot more than I had anticipated, though,

I was thinking about taking some Online Courses in marketing this next fall.  I’ve just filled out the FASFA form that I got from the http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ website to see if I might qualify for any financial assistance.  There certainly seems to be a big push for people to improve their skill set as a way to improve their chances of a good life.

When I was taking college courses a few years ago I did take one course in marketing, and found it to be fun and interesting.  Something that I think that I would enjoy learning more about!

Unfortunately I keep hearing on the news about how most of the local brick and mortar colleges are drastically increasing their tuition rates, so I am going to look at online degree programs in marketing to see if I can just do it all online.  I’m beyond the point of wanting to live in a dorm with a bunch of rowdy teenagers, and I just want to learn my stuff and market myself into a marketing job! 

After all, I think that sales and services are the two areas where employment will continue to grow.  And I’ve always had good luck in any job that involved sales.  Maybe with a degree in it I’ll be able to get a better paying job!

I’m getting a little bit anxious about my tax refund. My brother and I both e-filed our taxes at the same time, and both were approved for our refunds. He got his refund over a week ago and I haven’t seen my refund yet! I’d love to get my refund so I can use it to pay off a couple of my bills that I’ve been paying interest on. Come on Uncle Sam, show me the money!

I’ve often felt that too many people pursue the big bucks jobs instead of the emotionally rewarding nonprofit jobs that our country desperately needs.  I think one of the reasons for that might be that when children are growing up and attending school that there is so much emphasis on the importance of trying to make as much money as possible.  And I have to say that the economic instability of the country doesn’t help much!

I think it would be great if more attention was focused on how rewarding a nonprofit career can be to a person.  One of the problems with non profit jobs, though, is the general idea that the jobs themselves are low paying.  And that may be true.  I think that has a lot to do with the obscenely low minimum wage laws in this country.  People cannot survive on minimum wage, and that is a crying shame.  One thing is for sure though, I’m glad that I’m not the one in charge of fixing all of this country’s problems!