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The Seattle Mariners open the 2008 season at Safeco Field this afternoon at 3:40 pm with a game against the Texas Rangers. The game will be televised on FSN channel 30 with radio coverage on KOMO AM 1000. The Mariners play the Rangers again on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:10 pm and then head to Baltimore to play the Orioles on Friday at 4:05 pm.

The Mariners have added a couple of new starting pitchers to their starting lineup this year. Erik Bedard, aquired from the Orioles, is number 1 in the rotation and Carlos Silva aquired from the Twins is number 3.

Bedard had a 13-5 win/loss record with a 3.16 ERA with the Orioles last year. Silva had a 13-14 win/loss record and a 4.19 ERA with the Twins last year.

Starting lineup

1. CF Ichiro Suzuki
2. 2B Jose Lopez
3. LF Raul Ibanez
4. 1B Richie Sexson
5. 3B Adrian Beltre
6. RF Brad Wilkerson
7. DH Jose Vidro
8. C Kenji Johjima
9. SS Yuniesky Betancourt

Pitching rotation

1. LHP Erik Bedard
2. RHP Felix Hernandez
3. RHP Carlos Silva
4. LHP Jarrod Washburn
5. RHP Miguel Batista

Bullpen

Closer: RHP J.J. Putz
Setup: RHP Brandon Morrow
Setup: LHP Eric O'Flaherty
Middle: RHP Sean Green
Middle: LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith
Long: RHP R.A. Dickey

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The March 10th Meaning of Work program from KPLU featured Svetlana Spassova a young mechanical engineer from Bulgaria working at The Boeing Company.

It's inspirational to listen to her describe how happy she was to get a chance to come to the United States and how much she like working at Boeing.

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According to this MSN Careers Advice Article, by Tag Goulet of FabJob Dream Careers you aren't getting our work done because -

1. You have too many distractions
2. You don't have the resources you need
3. You don't know what you're doing

4. You have too much work
5. You have poor time-management skills
6. You're procrastinating
7. You feel undervalued
8. Your company's priorities keep changing
9. You're burned out
10. Your "reward" for completing the job will be more work

In a second article by Anthony Balderrama of MSN Careers we find a list of ten bad work habits:

1. Missing deadlines
2. Dressing unprofessionally
3. Not being punctual
4. Checking your e-mail, playing games, shopping.
5. Gossiping
6. Being negative
7. Trying to be everybody's best friend.
8. Burning bridges
9. Always being the funny one.
10. Forgetting you have neighbors

I'm not a super big fan of lists, but I suppose depending on where you work, your job and your attitude toward change - there may be something useful in these.

My advice is to do what you can to maintain a skill set, attitude toward work, and expense/income ratio - that allows you options.

Change what you can to make the best of your work and if you still aren't relatively happy; move on.

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