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What are trucking companies looking for in a resume? Absolutely nothing, as there is a shortage in trucking of over 135,000 truck drivers and by the end of 2007 industry analysts expect the shortage of truck drivers to be in excess of 160,000 truck drivers. If you are looking to drive a truck for a living and perhaps even see the country, then a driver job is waiting for you and your resume only needs to show that you have the drivers license and that you are trainable.

You see, trucking companies need people to drive so badly that they are taking people who barely speak English or even had just gotten out of prison and have felonies on their record. If you have a felony on your record about the only kind of truck you cannot drive is a Haz Mat truck or a trucking company, which has big military contracts to haul their freight around the country. You do not need much of a resume if you are looking for a job in the trucking industry as a truck driver.

The trucking companies will train you to get your commercial drivers license and offer you a fairly decent starting wage and they are competing with each other for truck drivers and so you need to shop around and look for the best deal for you. Let us just say it is a drivers market and this would be a good time to take advantage of a new career as a truck driver. Consider this in 2006.

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Get ten ways to deal with change and hurt
Let’s face it, change in your life is inevitable; sometimes it is easy, sometimes it is not. Some of it is gentle, and some of up is an upheaval that leaves you dazed and confused. If you have been hurt by someone or something, how you deal with it and react to it determines how long you will be in pain from it.

So here are my 10 best suggestions:

1. Remember that change is growth. If we never experienced change, even painful change, we would be stuck in the same place forever.

2. If you are not in control of the change, fighting against it is just going to hurt more. If you have lost a job, or a friend, for instance, and there is nothing that you can do about it, hanging on is just going to make the pain last longer than necessary.

3. Forgive yourself. Many times we spend a lot of time beating ourselves up over mistakes that we have made, or even just perceived that we made, and it isn’t going to help. Examine your part in what happened and forgive yourself.

4. Be gentle with yourself for awhile. You have been hurt. Give yourself a break. Do something nice for yourself. Just don’t make this stage last too long, or you are in danger of becoming depressed.

5. Forgive the other person. If you have been hurt or betrayed by someone, then you are going to have to forgive them in order to move on. This does not mean that you have to forget what they did, or that you have to contact them about it. Forgiving is for you, not for them. It cuts the ties and allows you to move on.

6. Write down how you feel and burn the paper. It helps tremendously to get all of the anger and hurt out so you can release them. One of the best ways to do this is to write down exactly how you feel, and then burn the paper. Be just as nasty as you feel, no one is going to see it but you anyway.

7. Don’t mope around. You need to get up and out and look for something new. You might not feel ready to make a new friend, or for a new relationship, but at least don’t sit around the house too long feeling sorry for yourself.

8. Get support from others. Allow friends or family members to be supportive of you. Ask for help. Allowing others to be nice to you and tell you that you are still a fine person helps.

9. Realize that you are in control of this process. It is very true that this pain is going to last just as long as you decide that it will. If you are constantly “picking” at it, then it is going to take a lot longer to heal. You Mom was right about that!

10. Never, ever give up. Even if you have been let down time and time again by people you thought were your friends, keep trying. Keep making new friends! It may be that you need some help with your self esteem, and that is affecting your judgment when it comes to the people that you are choosing as friends. If this is the case, the get help for this. But never allow anyone to make you feel bitter or to make you isolate yourself. If you do that, you have allowed this to take away your personal power. Only you can get it back!

About the Author

Sibyl McLendon, a Navajo woman living in the American Southwest, is a personal empowerment coach for Circle Of Grace. Check out her book, The Myth Of Soul Mates! http://www.circle-of-grace.com/soul_mates.htm http://www.circle-of-grace.com Sibyl can be contacted at sibyl@www.circle-of-grace.com

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Do not buy illegal steroid fakes!

Steroids come in a wide variety of assorted, forms, shapes, sizes, textures, and colors. It’s because of such variety that there are more steroid fakes and counterfeit drugs on the market than there are real anabolics. Fakes are plentiful because they are cheap to manufacture and easy to pass on to unsuspecting bodybuilders. To the untrained eye they can be almost identical to the real drug. If you or someone else is purchasing steroids from any source but a close friend or relative, you stand an excellent chance of being taken in by a con artist.

Two types of fakes

With the crackdown on anabolic steroids in the early 1990’s, bodybuilders and other athletes have turned to the black-market to obtain the drugs for their cycles. There are basically two types of bogus (fake) steroids on the black market. The first type is not bogus in the usual sense, but rather semi-bogus. They are real steroids, but they have fake labels, and the dosages listed are usually incorrect. Licensed pharmaceutical companies do not manufacture these drugs. Steroid users are well aware of this, but insist that as long as a drug works, and is easily obtainable, they are not concerned.

The second group of steroid fakes (which is the more numerous type) are fake in every sense of the word. For example, users have reported buying bottles of clear liquids (such as distilled water) from other athletes. These bottles have no labels and are often not the type of bottle normally associated with the packaging of the drug. To make the steroid seem more legitimate, many fake steroid producers put cooking oils in the bottle. Injecting such a substance into your body is a short cut to developing any number of serious side effects.

Big Money - Big Fakes - Big Con!

As expected steroid fakers are in operation for one purpose; to separate you from your hard-earned money. If someone at the gym promises you any steroid in any quantity, for an “unbelievable price”, chances are your’re about to be had. The most effective way to spot counterfeits is to compare it to the original. The problem with this, however, is that most bodybuilders have never even seen the original! There is also a pattern between the popularity of the steroid and the number of fakes available. As expected such highly-sought out steroids as Deca-durabolin, Winstrol, and Dianabol, are faked the most. You have to be real careful if you buy these particular drugs.

Take a close look

The best way to identify steroid fakes, is to look closely at how the drug is packaged. Fakers try to maximize profits and minimize expenses so they rarely invest much time or money into making their product look authentic. For every bodybuilder who can spot the difference the faker knows that their are a hundred who will be duped into falling for the scam. Generally fake steroids have packaging that looks close to the original, but only superficially. One way to spot fakes is to look at the batch number and expiration dates. In legitimate pharmaceutical labs these numbers are usually printed on the labels after the labels are produced. If the label on the bottle you are looking at appears to have been printed all at once (numbers at the same time as the labels), then odds are you have a fake in your hand.

Other ways to spot fakes are:

* That the expiration date on the box matches the one on the product as well

* You should not be able to easily peal the label off of the ampule or the bottle.

* Most steroids made by legitimate companies use labels with rounded corners.

* The label is on straight and it doesn’t overlap itself.

* With glass ampules, be sure that they are filled consistently, and of the same color.

Buying fakes

As of 1991 anabolic steroids are classified as controlled (illegal) substances.
Attempting to obtain steroids from an unknown source on the Internet is risky and frankly, stupid. The person on the other end of your keyboard could be some law enforcement agent trying to set you up. At the very least they’ll take your money and sell you a steroid fake. In the dangerous world of the steroid black-market it’s buyer beware.

steroids fakes

Bob Howard
©Article 03/01 2006

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As a consumer you are undoubtedly confused by the multitude of different home loan products advertised by lenders and brokers. The use of clever marketing tactics may lead you to believe that Low Doc loans and Non Conforming loans are essentially the same - but this is not necessarily true. While both the Low Doc and the Non Conforming products are primarily targeted at the self employed borrowers and borrowers who would not normally meet the traditional lending criteria - there are some specific differences.

Key Features of Low Doc Home Loans

Low Doc as the name suggests is a Home Loan where less financial supporting documentation needs to be provided than with a traditional home loan. Tax returns, Payslips etc are not required. This loan product was developed specifically for persons who are working in their own business and due to work commitments may not have had the opportunity to complete their tax returns as they fall due.

Some lenders will require a letter from the borrower’s accountant to substantiate their income, others are happy with a simple statutory declaration from the borrower.

The lender is prepared to provide a home loan to low doc applicants as long as the applicant has a basically Good Credit rating. In some cases a couple of small paid utility defaults would also be acceptable. Applicants with a recent history of bankruptcy will not qualify.

Borrowers must demonstrate that they have accumulated some deposit towards the purchase (a minimum of 5% deposit is required)

Low doc home loans are now available in Australia for both investment and owner occupied purposes.

The interest rates on the Low Doc home loans may be marginally higher than the full doc products. However this is progressively changing with a number of key players in the Australian Home Loan market offering low doc loans at very competitive rates.

Key Features of Non-Conforming Home Loans

Non Conforming Home Loans cater for borrowers who do not meet the lending criteria of traditional lenders. It could be that a borrower has a history of bad credit (even ex-bankruptcy), does not have steady regular employment, does not have a deposit, is an overseas resident, is retired or a seasonal worker etc.

As a rule, non-conforming product lenders are prepared to allow for a greater risk regarding the particular circumstances of a borrower and will generally charge a greater interest rate to compensate for such risk.

When choosing a loan product, be it a low doc home loan or a non-conforming home loan all borrowers should to be mindful of all the loan features, not just the interest rate charged.

Borrowers should also take into account the available re-draw options on their home loan, account keeping fees, portability of the loan, ability to split the loan, repayment options and much more.

If you would like to read more about Low Doc Home Loans or Non Conforming Home Loans in Australia please visit http://www.honeyloans.com.au or http://www.webdeal.com.au

Maya Pavlovski holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Melbourne University and is a qualified CPA.

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