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How to Mess Up Your Career in One Easy Step

This is not the usual things you think about. It's not about a bad stick on an agent's husband. Or forgetting an Important Person's appointment.

This is about not renewing your license.

Yeah, your driver's license is important. But forgetting to renew that is a minor nuisance compared to forgetting to renew your professional license.

I'm an RN. In North Carolina, we have to renew those every 2 years. Failing to do that -- or forgetting to do so -- opens a nurse up to a charge of practicing nursing without a license. And that is a major headache.

I'm like most people. I put off paying bills until they're due. But with a license, I try to renew it as soon as I get it. Because the annoyance factor is so large.

Whatever your license or certificate (RN, LPN, EMS, whatever), when it comes up for renewal, renew it. It wouldn't hurt to note on your calendar when it comes up for renewal just in case the mail got lost. Keeping on good terms with your licensing authority is important, and makes life easier for you.

posted by Jim Huffman @ 7:01 AM