Our second book Test Drive Your Future, High School Student and Grad Edition: Your Step by Step Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career is now completed, and we have actual print copies in hand! Here’s a little bit about the book:

Test Drive Your Future walks you through a step-by-step process of uncovering, testing, and choosing the perfect career using proven resources from top college and career planning organizations. The pages are packed with real life advice and inspiring stories gathered from dozens of interviews with professionals who love their careers.

Most students are never taught how to choose their career path, and as a result, end up in college majors and careers that are not a good fit for them. Up to 70% of college graduates are not even working in a field related to their majors! With the asking price of a bachelor’s degree at an in-state public college hovering around $64,000 ($157,000 for a private school), young people today can’t afford to choose their majors or careers on a whim. You wouldn’t buy a CAR without taking it for a test drive, so why would you choose your future CAREER without test driving it?

You can learn more at our new website http://testdriveyourfuture.com

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We are excited that things are rolling along really well with the change of our company, Inspiration Publications, Inc. We recently changed the name to A Little Bit More Fun, Inc in the spirit of both having more fun in our business and because we are diversifying our products and services more. It has been a bit of a headache getting everything switched over—all the government forms, e-mail lists, credit cards, bank accounts — but most of it is behind us! (We were astounded that the Bank of Hawaii made us create a completely new account rather than change our name over even though the federal government didn’t make us set up a completely new company!)

We’ve been working with a fabulous graphic designer named Chaiti who created our company logo, which we just love! Here’s a little more about A Little Bit More Fun, Inc:

Our Mission

To make life a little bit more fun.

Our Vision

To create books, products, and services that make our world a little more fun to live in by:

  • making people smile or laugh.
  • helping people know and express themselves better.
  • encouraging people to share their loves and their dreams with the world.

To read more about A Little Bit More Fun, Inc, you can check out our site at http://alittlebitmorefun.com

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Do what makes you happy

This month I interviewed Sarah for my “Women who Love to Learn” column at Girlzone.com. Sarah recently graduated from the Gene Juarez Academy with a license in cosmetology. She has tapped into her artistic talent, her interest in working with kids, and is already in a career that she loves at only 20 years old!
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This or That or This?

Here’s a recent question I was asked by a young woman on my GPS Gal blog at GirlZone.com:
Hey I have seen you answer a lot of questions about picking between 2 career paths but I still need some help. I want to be an animator and I love playing on computers, I have even looked [...]

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We’ve been hijacked!

It’s true, our previous blog BethandJamesHood.com was hijacked! Every time you tried to bring up this domain you were forced onto someone else’s site! So we have taken this opportunity to migrate everything over to our new blog at BethandJimHood.com.
We’d been debating this move anyway, as we’ve determined that Jim really is a “Jim” and [...]

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Happy Holidays!

Jim and I will be traveling home to Illinois in the next week to spend the holidays with his family in the Quad Cities. We are excited to have a good excuse to break out the winter clothes that sit in a Rubbermaid tub most of the year here in Hawaii!
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Taking a break from radio

We had a blast pulling together all the radio shows, interviewing guests and chatting on the air, but we decided to take a break from our show “Road Map to the Real World” starting in September so that we could use our extra time to re-design Where’s the Map?
Our second book is underway and we [...]

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More than just checking books in and out

Ever wonder what a librarian actually does, or why someone chooses this career path? This month on Girlzone.com I interview Kate, a Young Adult Librarian from Northhampton, Massachusetts. To read about Kate’s story describing her choice for going into this field and the surprising variety that makes up her average workday, go to Women Who Love [...]

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Exploring a career as an acupuncturist

This month on Girlzone.com I interview Mei-jen, an alumni from the Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii, who studied acupuncture and oriental medicine. To read about Mei-jen’s story describing her choice for going into this field, and choosing her college, go to Women Who Love to Learn

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How can I be 10 different people at once?

This week on the GPS Gal, I’ve answered a question that I too have asked myself many times: “How can I be 10 different people at once?” Here’s what Deja asked:
I’ve wanted to be a fashion designer for as long as I could remember I have a book full of designs I have, but now [...]

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