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Home Business CONTRIBUTED BY SARAH FORTE Job security. It’s one of the benefits of military life, but this job security does not roll over to the dependents. In many cases, each PCS may mean a new job for a working spouse. Unless you can take your job with you! The number of home-based businesses is [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY NIKKI MULDER One of the downsides to living on Okinawa is that embarking on a new adventure in uncharted waters can be a bit intimidating if not downright discouraging.  Luckily, in today’s age of Social Media, we now have a wealth of information at our disposal with just a few clicks of a [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA   If you’ve ever walked by the makeup counter in a big, fabulous mall and wished that could be you, comfortably seated while a professional applies makeup and turns you into an unexpected beauty, then I have someone for you to meet!! Welcome to Okinawa, Kimberly.   1.  Please, tell us [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA   She remembers scrapbooking for the first time seven years ago after a vacation to North Carolina.  She had never thought she had enough patience or time to do memory books, because she begins feeling very ADD about projects and tends to lose interest very quickly.  But, she found that sitting [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA   She’s a nurse.  A brilliant job choice for a military spouse.  A career where jobs are available everywhere, right?  Well… everywhere except Okinawa. Carmen explained to me that while it is possible for spouses to work in civilian nursing positions at Lester Hospital, openings are limited.  They did hold a [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA   We live on such a stunningly beautiful island, it’s no wonder there are so many budding and professional photographers here.  And we’re lucky, because for those of us whose camera expertise extends to a disposable point and shoot, there are plenty of people around who can take considerably better hang-on-the-wall-send-to-the-grandparents [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA Another reader has figured out how to do their dream job here on Okinawa! And you thought there was nothing to do here but play and eat soba!!!  Big thanks to Pamela for filling out our TO WORK questionnaire.  Please check it out and tell us about your work experience here [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA I love hearing about people who are doing their dream jobs.  It’s so encouraging!  Stephanie has known since the 7th grade that she wanted to be a hairstylist and she loves it!!  As this picture CLEARLY shows: Stephanie was willing to be one of the first to fill out our exciting [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA She loves having babies. No, really. She loves being pregnant. She loves laboring and birthing her children into this world. So much that she’s done it three times. Each time she chose to experience things naturally, without drugs, and with little to no intervention or assistance. As I listen to her [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY JOELLE YAMADA I teach. I’m a teacher. Or at least, that’s what I’ve always been. Right out of college, I taught high school religion, and then later 5th graders with learning difficulties, and at our last posting – junior college psychology and yoga. But really, all those jobs were just different aspects of [...]

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