I think I should write a story about a Jersey girl moving to Chicago. Anyway. I was, for a soul-searching career-focused session, looking up relative livable salaries here, and I thought I'd check Chicago too. Not that any one cares, but I just want to share anyway. Especially as I kind of use twitter some times as a sort of reference sheet:P

I dont really live in Newark, but strangely Essex County is off the  map for Salary.com; what digs with that?

According to Salary.com, moving to Chicago some time in the future means:

$6,497 net change in disposable income
				Cost of Living at Home				Typical Salary at Work
Current Location				Newark, NJ (Edit)				Passaic, NJ (Edit)
New Location				Chicago, IL (Edit)				Chicago, IL (Edit)
Percent Change in $				+14.8%				-6.9%
Explanation				The cost of living inChicago, IL is 14.8% higher than in Newark, NJ. Therefore, you would have to earn a salary of$34,430 to maintain your current standard of living.				Employers in Chicago, ILtypically pay 6.9% lessthan employers inPassaic, NJ. Therefore, if you take the same type of job in the same type of company in Chicago, IL you are likely to earn$27,932.

Pretty impressive stuff. 

As for living in NJ, and working in NYC:

Results for your new location   $1,997 net change in disposable income   Cost of Living at Home Typical Salary at Work        Current Location Newark, NJ (Edit) Newark, NJ (Edit)        New Location Passaic, NJ (Edit) New York, NY (Edit)       Percent Change in $ -2.0% +4.6%       Explanation The cost of living inPassaic, NJ is 2.0% lower than in Newark, NJ. Therefore, you would have to earn a salary of$29,389 to maintain your current standard of living. Employers in New York, NY typically pay 4.6% more than employers inNewark, NJ. Therefore, if you take the same type of job in the same type of company in New York, NY you are likely to earn$31,386.

Interesting, eh? Ahem, excuse me for the mundane post!

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Friends, I am soooo excited! With the help of the awesome @JTODonnell and her company, @Careerealism, I have realized that I have missed my mark in my career path, Event Planning! I am excited to announce that my twitter stream will not only include tweets principally about PR & advertising, but starting today, first and foremost, resources and articles that I am reading about the Event, Corporate Planning, and Trade-Show Industry! And I tell you I will read (and try to persuade someone to hire me at an entry-level job somewhere) like mad!

Stay tuned, my feed wil feature new, exciting stuff from now on! Meantime, Event Planners please dont hesitate to  connect with me at @BrazenCareerist and @LinkedIn ....I would love to learn with you! I intend to be a sponge in the next couple of days!

Yours in events planning,

Katrina Gredona

http://www.brazencareerist.com/profile/katrina-gredona

www.linkedin.com/in/katrinagredona

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*Grin* Sample Disney Cruiseline ads....I did this  research for an ad agency class...and sorry for not being here for a few months, friends..heheh. A print example:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v77/4thgenaccord/Disney/Cruise%20Line/cruise_ad_2.jpg
 


Diseny Commercials, starting in 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn49P30Ty4k&NR=1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQiRPJXHMBo (2006? 2007? "Fairly new, quote the poster)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrSX0gHX_8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHjxt1-t8Q

Competitors of Disney:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFT219kNGro&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFyc59jjRY&feature=related (2007)


Princess Cruise Line (older ad): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gdc9tBzy2I&NR=1 (this one is....odd.)

Love you all! and so glad to be back =)

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my breasts free/

and my horse neighing and galloping beneath me.

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met me for dinner. And we danced the night away, and was comforted.

And here I curl, now, tucked safely in bed after being kissed chastely at the door, smiling. The power of Twitter.

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scary (in a good way) at the same time! It makes me almost consider registering another Twitter account, to protect my full name...but as I'm not famous I shall not worry about that yetXD! Thank you for the good work and I have subscribed to your blog!

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followers, I love and appreciate its inclusion...along with my "Twittworth" and "Twitter Grade"! :D:D

Yeah, Twitwall!!!

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- Google Notebook has all the features I need...except I prefer the highlighting. So when I go back to the page its  there.

-Beyond this, Only I-Lighter seems to match very well. Am waiting for Webnotes to accept me, or open up too

- I wanted a mindmapping tool with easy 'adding-idea' tools, so while wisemapping.com and mind42.com are VERY cool, they dont have a browser bookmarklet. MindMeister wins in that aspect!

-Zotero's good, but I know of other bibiliography tools and anyway atm that's not an issue for me. Bibliographies are tedious, but they can be done.

ILeonardo-- its essentially a sophisticate crowd-sourcing knowledge social network.  Great, but with its risks as I know I'll still lay on a chopping board if I dare use sources, say, from Wikipedia. Their DEMOShow vid showcased Wikipedia >>

WINNERS:

I-Lighter

MindMeister

Random: I LUB Twitwall extras:D:D

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(Also inspired by Hans Christian Anderson' 'The Little Mermaid')

I woke up and grazed my hand down my husband's back and looked at him smilingly as we kissed gently and passionatly our 'Good Morning's.'  I lifted my hand to massage his neck and opened my mouth-

"Your Majesties!" My husband jerked back, causing bubbles to rise around him, and I hastily arranged my hair to fall as best as the sea water permitted over the mounds of my breasts and I sat upright to glare at a highly-embarassed butler, who stood fumbling at the golden coral  bedroom floor. But he uttered , "Yela is missing!"  and then my anger turned to a wail and my King-Husband sprang up, and swam away to order a hunt for our daughter.  I  wailed for her fool-hardy  desire to see the battle between the Mages and the Rogues that raged not far, and above the sea. "Your Majesty" came again, and I looked up. "She has been found- but she has been caught by the Rogues.  We must turn to Maid Kelian". I shivered at the mention of the terrible Mage and that I would have to lose my tail to seek her. But all for the Sake of my Daughter! And with this self-rally, I rose and began my journey to save my  daughter...the princess of the sea.

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was rocking on her heels, and I couldnt help but feeling it grated on me, just as her eyes, wide, a bit glassed with lashes that were excessively dewed. The test strip lay forlorn on the coffee table between us. I am 21, she 18; my mind flashed through all the possibilities and closed my eyes to steady myself and listen to my heart. 'My heart', I thought, 'My heartbeat--' suddenly I snapped my eyes open and helped her dry her tears, and held her tightly, decisively. Nine months later, our son was born, and I placed my finger tip between the chubby, downy mounds of his little chest and heard what I thought I needed hear 9 months before: the sound of MY heartbeat...through him.

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