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Work Issues for Singles During the Holidays

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Amy Schoen, MBA, CPCC is a certified professional life coach and nationally recognized dating and relationship expert who specializes in helping singles to discover what they need and want in relationships and how to attract their desired romantic partner. She also works with couples to help them create the relationship of their dreams. Her whole life approach coaching enables her clients to find greater happiness and satisfaction in their lives overall. Many of her clients have been successful at finding their life partner and reaching their business and career goals. Entrepreneur.com highlighted Ms. Schoen as the dating coach for entrepreneurs. Coach Amy has been featured several times in the Washington Post, as well as interviewed on major radio and TV stations. She resides in Rockville, MD with her husband Alan and son Andrew.

Amy is the author of “Motivated to Marry®- Now there is a Better Method to Dating and Relationships!” and “Get It Right This Time™- Find and Keep Your Ideal Romantic Relationship”. She speaks regularly to professional and social groups and is a member of the National Speakers Association. She writes a regular blog-column on dating and relationships for <a>www.mylifecompass.com</a>, a website that features highly respected coaches nationwide as well as her own blog, www.motivatedtomarryblog.com. Amy offers down to earth tips and helpful hints on dating and relationships in her popular complimentary monthly ezine and through her free monthly tele-classes at <a>www.heartmindconnection.com</a>.

Recently, Amy was featured in the Washington Post and the Washington Examiner as one of DC area’s top relationship coach. She has been on the Fine Living Network, News Channel 8, and many top radio shows as an expert on romance and relationships.

In addition, Amy has created <a>www.DCDatingInfo.com</a> as an informational resource to help singles and dating couples in the DC area. Amy, her husband Alan and son Andrew live in Rockville, Maryland.

Work Issues for Singles During the Holidays

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Amy Schoen: Hi! this is Amy Schoen. We are discussing how to survive the holidays as a single. The topic we are talking about is work issues. Your work associates may consider you as being single as being available to fill in whenever possible. They have families, they need to go home too. So, "Joe, you can work extra hours, can't you?

" So you have to be really clear about what boundaries you have set and what is important for you for the holidays and tell them, "hey, I have to go home too for the holidays. I have a family as well". As a single you have different work options. You can choose to work overtime, you can choose to work the regular hours or you may also want to take vacation just like everybody else. So you have to be clear ahead of time and make your desires known. Or perhaps you may want to take on a part time job. There are so many things you could do during the holidays to fill in your time if you have free time and to make extra money too. There are many jobs during the holidays that singles can consider to be helping out with. Of course, all the service industries need people to work whether at the retail stores hire extra help during the holidays, restaurants needing extra people during the holidays. Even like hotels could need extra people to help out with different shifts during the holidays so that their regular employees can have sometime off. As well as there is always a need for baby sitters on New Year's Eve. Singles may be view working during the holidays in different ways. One way would be to view it as a good time to catch up on paper work. So you have this time and so you could do your taxes or you may want to organize your files for the next year. So there are different perspectives on that. The other perspective is that sometimes singles get a little upset because they feel like there is a burden put on them because they are the ones manning the fort. And they think, 'why do I need to man the fort? I have every right to enjoy the holidays just like my co-workers who have families'. So being single and during a time when work needs to be done you have many options. You can either decide to work more or just the same or work little less like everybody else.

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