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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Posted to: Career fulfillment
September 7th, 2007
My own marriage and the myth of the stay-at-home dad
July 20th, 2007
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 guest column in Time magazine: What Gen Y Really Wants
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Management
July 6th, 2007
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. [...] Yahoo column: Career ideas for a warm summer day
June 29th, 2007
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. Twentysomething: Problems with working at a big company
June 19th, 2007
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 [...] Twentysomething: The Paradox of Choice, gen-Y style
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Finding a career
June 12th, 2007
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." Time management discussion with Ann Althouse (only sort of)
May 23rd, 2007
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. [...] How a job can save you
Posted to: Career fulfillment
May 13th, 2007
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. [...] Yahoo column: Four ways to make a bad job good
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Self-management
April 19th, 2007
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. Happy Passover from my blended life
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Parenting
April 3rd, 2007
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: My financial history, and stop whining about your job
Posted to: Career fulfillment | Money
March 19th, 2007
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 [...] |
You can't be a debt snob and be entrepreneurial. Almost all startups are founded on credit cards or money from parents. http://bit.ly/d3Hruw 1 day ago
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