Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Iseek a Future!!!!!

seek careers.  This is your chance to explore, find, or reaffirm what career path you may be interested.  Your job is to use iseek.org to help you plan out your future steps.  Answer the following questions and submit them into class and post them onto the blog.  You must respond to two of your peers.  This is the last assignment!!! You've made it too far to give up know!

1.  Present a list of four possible career choices that interest you. 
2.  Select one of these careers and explain why this career is the most interesting to you.  In your response consider these factors.
         a.  What human capital is necessary to get a career in this field, do you possess any of these skills, what skills do you still need to develop????
         b.  What assets can you collect to help you acquire a job in this field?? Think of the article you read yesterday, internships? Personal connections, similar work experience???
         c.  How will career help you earn wealth??? Don't just look at the wage think about other ways to acquire income and investing and saving!!!  Remember the wage you see on iseek doesn't account for taxes!!!!!!

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Real connection

Read this article that touches on assets and human capita and answer these questions. 
Remember to turn your response into Classroom and then post your response onto the blog and respond to 1 other person!!!!!! 

1.  In your opinion what are the most important relationships you have that could increase your human capital in the future?
2.  In your opinion what are the most important signaling assets a person your age could have?  What signaling assets do you want to have in the future?
3.  What skills do you currently have and how do you plan to foster (build) those skills in the future?
4.  What short or long term decisions are you currently facing in your life and what are the cost involved?  

Income or Assets? 

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Human Capital

The power of our own human capital 

Watch the video below that offers some thoughts on human capital and answer these questions within your response.  In this post you will be required to respond to two of your classmates responses!

1.  What motivates your desire to increase your human capital?  The video mentions three factors so use these as your guide.

 2.  What aspect of your life do you plan to invest in to increase your human capital?

3.  At this point in your life if you were active member participating in Tampabaytime.org what human capital skill would you offer.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Net worth and cash flow!




Evaluate your life and determine your net worth!  Give a list of your assets and liabilities (Don't worry if you don't have many of these).  Also list your monthly income and expenses so you can calculate your cash flow position.  Share your cash flow position and include ways that you could increase your cash flow or switch your cash flow from negative to positive.  Make sure to comment on one of your classmates post if you want credit for this post!!!!!!