It’s Monday again people. It’s our favorite day of the week and since I missed posting a Friday funny I thought I’d post this which is slightly funny and rather enlightening! Have a great week! by Gracie Murano Source: http://www.oddee.com/item_98139.aspx Most of us don’t crack our first smile until 11:16 a.m. A study, by Marmite [...]
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10 Amazing Facts About Mondays
Posted: June 4, 2012 by Alison in Workin' for a Livin', Just For Fun, Food For ThoughtTags: Workweek and weekend, Monday, Marmite, England, Office for National Statistics, Weird Science, East Midlands, Suicide
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Sara Blakely Dared To Ask, “Why Not?”
Posted: March 1, 2012 by Alison in Food For Thought, Get Educated, Workin' for a Livin'Tags: Business, Neiman Marcus, People, Sara Blakely, Spanx, Undergarment, Women
What a great and inspiring story! If you’ve got entrepreneurial spirit this story will truly move you. Watch the set of videos by clicking the link below. How Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, took $5,000 and an idea for footless pantyhose, and turned it into a multi-million dollar women’s undergarment business. http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/the-spanx-story-how-sara-blakely-turned-footless-pantyhose-into-a-business.html?nav=vid
Finding Argentina
Posted: September 6, 2011 by Alison in Get Educated, Workin' for a Livin'Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires City, Club Atlético Independiente, Provinces, South America, Steve Crawford, Travel and Tourism
By Steve Crawford, IB Senior Lecturer Traveling to South America from Finland never seems to be easy and straight forward. I once had to go Jyväskylä-Helsinki-Amsterdam-Bonaire-Quito-Guayaquil, a series of plane rides that dragged on for thirty-eight hours. But this time the trip to Buenos Aires was a bit shorter than that, and every bit as [...]
IB Alumni Leslie Bates Writes…
Posted: August 30, 2011 by Alison in Workin' for a Livin'Tags: Leslie Bates, Promoted, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Greets from Texas, just got my first promotion after one year here at Texas Parks and Wildlife. I started out as an assistant utility post operator and am now the lead yeah! I am preparing to hire my assistant next week and will be involved in the interviewing process. My secret was to ask [...]
A Stafix® Campaign Gets Nominated at the “Grand Prix Romand de Création”
Posted: July 28, 2011 by Alison in IB Alumni EntrepreneurTags: Advertising, Advertising agency, Business, Geneva, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, PRWEB, Stafix, Switzerland
Stafix was started and is run by IB Alumni including José Ayala and Aleksi Rastela. Several IB alumni are also employed there including Jessica Hollmeier, Jean Petitat, Lorenzo Bracco, and Jonatan Semenoff. Don’t know what Stafix is? Click the picture on the right to get educated! A Stafix® campaign gets nominated at the “Grand Prix [...]
