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Your personality may provide a clue to the ideal career

Last updated Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 11:21am

It has been said that the difference between a job and a career is whether you have a smile on your face. Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions you will make in life.

Most young people do not know what they want to be when they grow up. Among college freshmen, more than 75 percent haven’t picked a major as they enter college, and more than half will change their major at least once before they graduate.

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Sixth-graders at Adams Elementary School in Layton made 1,000 paper cranes to give to classmate Shelia Rasa, who is undergoing brain surgery on Tuesday. They got the idea after reading "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," about a sick girl who wants 1,000 origami cranes because she'll get one wish. Origami cranes generally mean wishes for good health. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

1,000 origami cranes, well wishes for girl undergoing brain surgery

April Hale Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 5:56am

LAYTON — On the wings of a thousand origami cranes float the well wishes of sixth-grade students for their friend.

Sixth-graders at Adams Elementary School spent weeks folding origami cranes of all sizes and colors for their friend, 12-year-old Shelia Rasa, who will have brain surgery Tuesday. The students gave the cranes and other special gifts to Shelia in a surprise ceremony Friday that featured plenty of smiles and hugs.

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Are you a giver or a taker in business?

Ginny Grimsley Contributor

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 1:39pm

Joe Scott believes that life would be a lot easier if people recognized there are really only three kinds of people in the world.

"It's been my experience in life and in business that people come in only three basic varieties," said Scott, an entrepreneur who started with a truck and a tool box to become a successful contractor and real estate developer. "There are givers, takers and those who fall in the middle with qualities of both.

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