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Browsing category "Career fulfillment"

Do you have a good job? Take the test

Posted to: Career fulfillment
September 7th, 2007
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Today's job market favors employees. The attitude of most workers is that they should have a job that makes them happy. So it's no surprise that at any given time 70 percent of the workforce is job hunting, according to the Wall St. Journal.
Everyone is looking for the right position. But what exactly does that [...]

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My own marriage and the myth of the stay-at-home dad

July 20th, 2007
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For those of you who don't know what's going on in my marriage, please read My First Day of Marriage Counseling, and maybe you will want to leave a comment about how if you were my husband, you'd divorce me for blogging about my marriage.
My husband, in fact, has brought up divorce for other reasons. [...]

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My guest column in Time magazine: What Gen Y Really Wants

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Management
July 6th, 2007
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With 85 million baby boomers and 50 million Gen Xers, there is already a yawning generation gap among American workers–particularly in their ideas of work-life balance. For baby boomers, it's the juggling act between job and family. For Gen X, it means moving in and out of the workforce to accommodate kids and outside interests. [...]

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Yahoo column: Career ideas for a warm summer day

June 29th, 2007
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Here's an idea: Instead of thinking of your summer vacation as something that detracts from your work, think of it as a way to boost your work performance — or even your business.
The weeklong getaways that run a day or two over, the hour-long siestas that turn into three hours, and the three-day weekends that [...]

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Twentysomething: Problems with working at a big company

June 19th, 2007
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By Ryan Healy — If there is an overarching impact my generation is already having on the corporate world, it is entrepreneurship. Roughly 80% of my friends and acquaintances plan to start their own business at some point. Both males and females, college grads and current students, everyone wants to run their own [...]

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Twentysomething: The Paradox of Choice, gen-Y style

June 12th, 2007
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By Ryan Healy — Go to college, graduate with a technical degree and become a professional, preferably a doctor, lawyer or accountant. Join the workforce for a few years, then get married and have a kid or two."
According to my father this was the typical advice given to young baby boomer boys growing up. [...]

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Time management discussion with Ann Althouse (only sort of)

May 23rd, 2007
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When you try to decide should you stay at your job or should you quit, you probably focus on the part of your job that is not core to you. For example, getting coffee for the boss. You do that and then your boss teaches you, say, how to review a fashion show in Milan. [...]

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How a job can save you

Posted to: Career fulfillment
May 13th, 2007
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A job cannot make you happy, but it can save your life. People spend so much time looking for that perfect job, the perfect boss, the salary that will finally make them feel secure. But in fact, the impact a job can have on your life is overrated. Unless your life is completely falling apart. [...]

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Yahoo column: Four ways to make a bad job good

April 19th, 2007
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The best way to be happier at work is to take personal responsibility for your workplace well-being. Once you do that, any job can be better than it is right now.
Here are four ways you can improve your job yourself instead of relying on your boss or your company to change:
1. Make a friend at [...]

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Happy Passover from my blended life

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Parenting
April 3rd, 2007
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Yesterday Ryan posted about creating a blended life. His post makes me think a lot about my own set up. I am pretty sure people would say I have a blended life:
1. I work from 8-1pm and 8pm to 12pm seven days a week. Except when I don't, because my two young sons need something.
2. [...]

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My financial history, and stop whining about your job

Posted to: Career fulfillment |  Money
March 19th, 2007
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I tell people all the time to change their job if they don't like it, and people tell me this is totally impractical advice. A lot of people write to me to say that my advice only applies to rich people. Or they tell me that single parents, families living paycheck to paycheck, people in [...]

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