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Speaker 1: Welcome to How the Money. I'm Joel and I and Matt,

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Speaker 1: and today we're discussing where to look for a new

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Speaker 1: job and more stimulus money. That's right, buddy, We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of good news to cover today as well

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Speaker 1: as a few key points, a few key articles that

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Speaker 1: we want to discuss as well. But first thing, I

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Speaker 1: notice your hair is getting kind of long. You normally

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Speaker 1: are really on top of the haircuts, right, like, I

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Speaker 1: hardly ever see your hair touch your ears, and I

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Speaker 1: am noticing that these days. You normally get the great

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Speaker 1: Clips bundle where you get like tin haircuts for a

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks or something where you only pay like ten

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Speaker 1: dollars a haircut, right, I've done that before. I also

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Speaker 1: often usually I go to the Supercuts training program, which

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Speaker 1: is free haircuts, so that's something I like to do

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Speaker 1: as well. But you know, both have been closed down

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Speaker 1: for I'm sure some of these are back open and running,

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Speaker 1: but I just haven't had the will to go in

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Speaker 1: and get a hair cut yet. It still feels a

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Speaker 1: little early. Yeah, yeah, so it's still a little scriggly,

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Speaker 1: and you usually cut your own hair. But man, even that,

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Speaker 1: you've been a little lazy and let let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to show some solidarity, all right, Lots of

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Speaker 1: folks aren't cutting their hair, so I think, hey, even

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Speaker 1: though I cut my own hair, maybe i'll just kind

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Speaker 1: of show some support for my best buddy. It means

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Speaker 1: a lot, I can. I'll tell you that. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad to hear. But but yeah, a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: aren't used to cutting their hair. And I'm sure there

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Speaker 1: are some folks out there who probably haven't done the

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Speaker 1: best job when it comes to trying to cut their

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Speaker 1: own hair, maybe getting their kids hair. Yeah, I've seen

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Speaker 1: cutting their spouses hair. I mean, just it's funny to

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Speaker 1: like it's in public, right, people people cutting each other's hair.

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Speaker 1: So it used to be done though, like odd on

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Speaker 1: in time. It's the sixties again. You snap on the

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Speaker 1: leaf blower, that hair's gone. It's perfect the way to

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Speaker 1: do it. Or even better, reverse that and get the

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Speaker 1: like leaf sucker attachment. You know, if you have a blower,

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Speaker 1: it's like the world's largest flow be there you go,

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Speaker 1: that'll snap your scalp right off. Though, well, I'd be

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Speaker 1: so interested to know which of our listeners have tried

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Speaker 1: doing a self haircut, who's never never done done so

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Speaker 1: just gotten so long and scribedly that that it looks

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Speaker 1: pretty bad. Also, um, and so yeah, if you have

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Speaker 1: a terrible haircut, pick you want to send to us?

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Speaker 1: Just uh yeah, shoot that picture over to how the

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Speaker 1: money pot at gmail dot com. And man, I think

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Speaker 1: we should should post the worst quarantine haircut on our

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Yeah, send over the most botched haircut

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Speaker 1: we'll post it sometime next week once we receive a

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Speaker 1: few awful submissions, and should be fun to see other

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Speaker 1: people's terrible hair news at this this time too. Sounds

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Speaker 1: good man, all right, but first the good news. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to it, man, some of the best news. Because obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked last week about bike's being out

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Speaker 1: I've noticed that in my neighborhood, one of the streets

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Speaker 1: freaking amazing twenty miles of streets where cars aren't allowed

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Speaker 1: what kind of impact that that will have on traffic. Um.

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Speaker 1: perfect time to prioritize alternative methods of transportation flag bikes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're getting used to the clean blue skies in

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Speaker 1: more prioritization of alternative transportation. Matt. Let's got into the

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Speaker 1: next piece of good news. Everybody's favorite chef, Guy Fietti. Right, everybody?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there anybody that has a favorite chef

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Speaker 1: have a craft beer on every episode except Friday episodes

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Speaker 1: but that's seriously good stuff, seriously good stuff. And at

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Speaker 1: That's huge, super cool, uh, Joel. Some other good news

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Speaker 1: Is it really something we need these days? No? Are

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Speaker 1: the Olympics and paint your face red. But but but yeah,

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Speaker 1: same thing kind of with job hunting. Everything has become

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Speaker 1: new job. Yeah, so let's talk about some of these

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Speaker 1: different examples. Let's kind of dive into some of these

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Speaker 1: sites who are focusing on specific industries or at least

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Speaker 1: that's awesome is shift. That's a great site for military

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Speaker 1: well as paired. Those are both sites that you should

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Speaker 1: look into. Hire dot com is a great site specifically

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Speaker 1: for software engineers to find work. And then the mom

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Speaker 1: Project is an amazing site for working moms to find

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Speaker 1: employers who are thoughtful about work life integration and really

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Speaker 1: all hiring sites should probably focus on that a little

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Speaker 1: with more dad's being the state at home figure as well. Yeah, completely,

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Speaker 1: and one more Heroes Jobs is a really cool app

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Speaker 1: on heroes. Like heroes, jobs is basically you you create

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Speaker 1: like a super quick video, um, and there's just a

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Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, then they focus on what is important,

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Speaker 1: like what's important with the retail job kind of how

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Speaker 1: camera talking to somebody, because that's what matters in retail jobs.

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Speaker 1: Engineer not so much, right, Software engineer just gonna hire

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Speaker 1: dot com and fill out the form, No video necessary,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to talk and in order to secure

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Speaker 1: that job. Probably, But yeah, I think it's important to

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Speaker 1: gonna be way more important than they even typically are.

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Speaker 1: And if you're searching for a job, going to those sites,

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Speaker 1: in particular sites that are within your industry that are

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about also, Matt where the jobs are right

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Speaker 1: on average, healthcare and tech jobs are doing a little

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Speaker 1: bit better than other industries. All industries that are posting

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Speaker 1: beauty and wellness, hair salons, spas, childcare, dental, and veterinarian

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Speaker 1: What we don't know, of course, is how quickly those

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Speaker 1: that resembles how things looked pre COVID. It'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to to find new work in a crowded field of candidates.

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Speaker 1: If you can stand out from the crowd by applying

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Speaker 1: for jobs on a particular site that specializes in your field,

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna find more opportunities, and I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get quicker responses. Nice, all right man, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be it for this episode. We'll we'll be

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Speaker 1: sure to link to those different websites in our show

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Speaker 1: notes for this episode, and it's all our listeners out

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Speaker 1: there as well. Don't forget to send in those botched

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Speaker 1: it for this episode. Until next time. Best Friends Out,

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Speaker 1: Best Friends Out,