Now armed with study guides and knowledge of what the test is like, LaVoie, 23, expects to gain at least five points when she next takes the test required to join the military.

The problem was, Drew was regularly staying out until 4AM and sleeping just three hours on most weeknights. The result was some dead-time at work from 9AM to 1PM when most people are busy, he told AOL Jobs. "Everything took a little longer to do because of the battle to sleep," explained Drew.

He admitted that he would hit the wall earlier in the day, but that his mind and body would eventually catch up, and at 5PM he was ready to go again and routinely got lots of work done after hours. His supervisors weren't aware of his naps at his desk, and his work didn't suffer, he said.

Hopefully, that's a sentence that has never been spoken in your office. But, since it's chock-full of some of the most hated phrases used in the business world, it's a distinct possibility. AOL Jobs received so many responses in creating a list of the Most Hated Business Terms that it could have listed 100, but decided to keep it to relatively modest 25.

Veterans have qualities that employers want -- leadership, getting missions accomplished, performing under changing circumstances, reliability, task oriented, a strong work ethic, and have been trained with top skills by the military -- according to veterans and others interviewed by AOL Jobs.

If you've ever been to one of the many job fairs across the country, you've seen the long lines of job applicants with resumes in hand, all pushing for a spot up front to get a recruiter's ear. It's a meat market without the drinks. I've been to a few since being laid off in June 2008, and have for the most part found them to be a waste of time unless you go in prepared and with a goal of networking rather than getting a job immediately.

He: "I have two solutions to this problem. The first is..."

She: "I know that all of us feel uncomfortable with this project, and don't trust the numbers we see. I've worked for a long time on coming up with a solution, and I'd like to share it with you."

What some may consider a teenage job to earn some extra bucks for clothes and spending money, many others are now turning into part-time jobs with better pay, and even some benefits, than they received when they were starting out as a babysitter and needed a parent to drive them to work. Older babysitters can demand higher pay because they have more experience, may have first-aid expertise, can cook meals, have their own car to get to a parent's house, and are mature enough to leave their boyfriend at home.

As someone who was laid off during the Great Recession and hasn't yet found full-time work, that's what I got out of the latest book by Erich Origen and Gan Golan, the writers and artists of the New York Times bestseller 'Goodnight Bush,' a parody of the children's classic 'Goodnight Moon.' Their new 80-page book was released Oct. 18 and is drawn and reads like a comic book, although at $15 it's not as cheap as a regular comic book and probably not high on the list of expenses for anyone who's unemployed.

Seventeen percent of 1,000 American workers and their bosses said in a survey that they'd have an office fling with their boss if it would advance their career.

But the definition of networking is changing from going out and meeting people in person or calling them on the phone, to networking on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social networks online. A recent report by the job seeker website Simply Hired found that 37 percent of job seekers got their last job through networking, 20 percent through a job board (presumably online), 15 percent through a company career site, 15 percent through a staffing agency, and 13 percent through a recruiter.

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If you work for Oprah Winfrey or President Obama, consider yourself lucky. The two leaders -- one of daytime talk TV and the other of the free world -- are at the top of the list of most desired bosses, according to a survey by Adecco North America, a worker recruitment company.

But workplace anxiety is nothing to take lightly, with 10 percent of the U.S. population having social anxiety that can affect their work and cause them to leave their jobs, said Jonathan Berent, a licensed clinical social worker who helps patients through psychotherapy. The fear of public speaking at work becomes worse when there's a recession outside the door and you need to speak publicly as part of your job, Berent said.

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Sequel Naturals President Charles Chang doesn't go out of his way to look for and hire Generation Y employees, but he's glad his company is full of mostly under-30 workers.

They're creative, tied to technology, can multi-task and want to help build his health-food products company while growing in their careers, Chang said in a telephone interview with AOL Jobs. They're also hard workers who want to know where they stand in a company and they're not lazy, as some people believe.

Drops in agriculture, mining and manufacturing jobs in Namibia were blamed for the high unemployment, as were the recession and global warming. It took the government a year to verify the numbers and another year to release the report.

While it was never the couple's intention to take "business" away from the homeless, Josie Wilson says she plans to give back to a homeless man who asked her when she would be done handing out resumes near where he normally stands and panhandles -- when she gets a job.

Whatever footsteps you hear, or even if you don't hear them, it's a good idea to get a layoff emergency kit together so that you're moving forward as quickly as possible after a layoff. Here are some things to "pack" now before you're called into the boss's office:

They've been reported in offices throughout New York, including Google's Ninth Avenue offices in Manhattan. Infestations have also been found in a Denver library, a publisher's office, and the district attorney's office in Manhattan. The latest New York bed bug infestation is reported to be in the Food Network magazine's editorial office, although a Hearst spokesman wouldn't confirm or deny the report.