Getting your doctorate in psychology is no easy feat. After years of schooling and clinical experience, you want to make sure it pays off monetarily. If you’ve completed a PsyD program whether it be a PsyD online program or not, you’re almost at the finish line. In order to even get to...
4 Ways To Drive Towards Your Culinary Career Dream
When your friends were watching cartoons on a Saturday morning, you were tuning into the cookery channel. Yes, your parents thought this was a little strange at the time, but now it all makes sense considering your dreams of a career in the food industry. You realize that the roadmap to your...
Build Yourself A New Career As A Tradesman
If you’re the kind of person that gets bored stiff sitting in the office at a desk and you’re constantly itching to get out and do something practical, a career in the trades could be perfect for you. You can make good money and be your own boss if you set up...
Open University Masters: Entry 21
By David Wells, editor at Surviving the OU I’ve been snowed under recently with OU work so it’s been difficult finding the time among TMAs and “life” to write blog posts. Sounds typical – I’m caught in meta loop where I haven’t had time to write about my OU experiences because I’m...
Open University Students: Note Taking Tips
By Luke Murphy – Guest Contributor Note taking can be daunting, especially for those who have been out of education for a long time, such as myself. I have noticed quite a lot of people on my tutor group asking about note-taking techniques, so I thought it would be great if this...
This is The Road Map To Your Dream Career
How many of us are lucky enough to be able to say that we have our dream career? The one that we have dreamed about since we were in short trousers? Well, probably not that many because that isn’t exactly how real life pans out. However, no matter where you are on...
Money-Making Careers For Those Who Know Money
Whether you’re studying finance or you simply have a keen grasp of economics and great money sense, you have a tremendously valuable skill. Not only can those keen financial skills help you out a great deal in your day-to-day life and your personal money situation. But they can be the building blocks of...
5 Education Options For Getting a Better Paying Job
You should never stop learning. There’s so much to learn out there, the second you stop, the second you stop progressing! Yet most people don’t take this approach. We spend the best part of two decades in the educational system; then we find a job, and, all of a sudden, we seem...
What Do You Need To Succeed In Your Career?
No matter what career path you’re taking, what you want to achieve in your life, it’s safe to say that we all want to be successful in our chosen careers. Yet, this isn’t something that is guaranteed to happen. You really have to work for it. So if you want to ensure...
Self-Management Techniques to Help You Move Forward With Your Career
When it comes to moving forward with your career, you have to exercise strict self-control and enforce productivity. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself putting everything off until tomorrow and never actually getting around to doing anything. Success requires hard work and dedication which can be exhausting (and alternatives may give you more instant...
