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If you drive less than an hour outside of any major city in America, you will very quickly begin to see a different world. Typically, in the best neighborhoods and areas, the lawns are well maintained and there is not much to see beyond trees, flowers, and shrubs. When you start getting into poorer neighborhoods outside of major cities, however, you begin to see things like automobiles on blocks rusting in front yards and the landscape looks a lot different. I've ridden through these neighborhoods with wealthy people from larger cities. At least once I heard someone say something like, ''Why don't they clean up that mess?''

If you saw a co-worker stealing money from another co-workers purse would you tell on them? You probably would because you wouldn't want someone stealing from you. Would you cover for someone if they told you to they couldn't come into work because they were taking the day off with no real reason why they shouldn't come in?

Everybody knows that the recession will be over some day, but if the nation's first citizen's words are to be valued, it is going to stay a bit longer than previously anticipated.

For a portion of one summer when I was younger, I had a valet job at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club outside of Detroit, Michigan. I worked during the lunch hour and spent most of my time sitting in a small air conditioned shed in a corner of the parking lot waiting for cars to pull up. When a car would pull up, I would fling open the door to the shed and run over to the car, hand the person a ticket, and park the car.

If reports coming forth in all sectors of the economy are read right, we are headed for another dip in the recession, a sort of second innings. With almost half of the 15 million jobless having crossed six months without a job, 2.5 million jobless requiring an extended lease of life after their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits ran out, and 1000 homes being foreclosed every day, you cannot afford to be caught off guard by a fresh spurt of acute economic recession. So tighten your belt and start planning today on how to handle a fresh round of economic adversity.

Aside from the obvious jobs of working for a newspaper, or as a news reporter, those with journalism degrees are finding plenty of job opportunities to put their strong writing skills to work.