There's a new guest blogger on Brazen Careerist: A.J. Jacobs. He is an editor-at-large at Esquire, and from what I can tell, it's one of the cushiest jobs in the world. He doesn't go to meetings, he seems to have some sort of tenure-track thing where he would never be fired, and he doesn't even [...]

By Ryan Healy – According to Monster.com, 60 percent of college graduates move home with mom and dad after graduation and the trend is on the rise. The statistic holds true with my friends from the class of 2006. More than half moved back to the suburbs to start adult life, much the [...]

Today's workers have three, clear priorities: Flexible hours, work that leads to personal growth, and the ability to spend a lot of time fostering personal relationships.
These are not the characteristics of jobs that typically attracted the best candidates. Most lawyers have terrible hours, most doctors have little flexibility, and most consultants sacrifice personal time for [...]

It is clear from a wide range of polls that the majority of both men and women under 40 are willing to give up power and money to get flexible and interesting work. The problem is that this is not so simple. Taking a low-paying, unimpressive job is not going to give you flexibility. In [...]

By Ryan Healy – I have read that my generation grew up with constant change and amazing new technologies like cell phones and the Internet which caused us to not appreciate patience and experience.
I don't buy that.
Surely there are a variety of social and cultural factors influencing impatience, but as far as I'm concerned, the [...]

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. [...]

By Stephen Seckler – The cost of a legal education is now reaching stratospheric proportions. Anyone contemplating this enormous investment of time and money should think long and hard before applying.
Here are five common myths about what law school will do for you:
Myth 1: I'll be able to use the law degree in whatever [...]

Most people don't need to go to graduate school. Sure, you need an MBA to run a Fortune 500 company, and you need to go to medical school to be a doctor, but in most cases, a graduate degree doesn't provide a ticket to play – because anyone can play – but rather, the degree [...]

The difference between an MBA from a top school and the other schools is large. For example, one of the biggest benefits of business school is the connections you make while you're there. So, the more superstars you go to school with the more superstars you connect with.
Another benefit that business school gives you is [...]

In many respects, changing careers is like dumping your significant other. It's a lot easier to do than solving the problems you're facing. But in so many cases, hard work and self-knowledge could solve most of the problems. And I have found — in both careers and relationships — that if I get through a [...]

One of the biggest issues for writers today is how to move between print and online. The issue is really authority. For print people, moving online is difficult because their established offline authority has relatively little meaning online. Conversely people who are mostly online understand that there is a much more structured way to earn [...]

One of the most important career moves of the new millennium is getting out of paying dues. Paying one's due is an antiquated idea in a workplace where few people aspire to climb the same corporate ladder for 45 years.
Eve Tahmincioglu interviewed 55 leaders for her book, From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons [...]

Did you ever notice that in most Starbucks there is art on the wall? In hyperly competitive New York City, where I used to live, the waiting list for putting art on the wall at Starbucks was two years. Really. But I signed up.
I know, you're thinking, Penelope was an artist? The answer is, sort [...]

The transition from the end of school to the beginning of adulthood is very hard. Today that transition lasts longer than it used to, because there are so many choices and so few tried and true career paths — if any — that work anymore.
Here are five things to keep in mind to make the transition [...]

The old paths through adult life don't work anymore. Graduate school is no longer a ticket to a stable career, and in some cases, it's not even a ticket to a job. Student debt weighs so heavy today that people should not expect to have what their parents have. Technology opens up many types of [...]

When you look for a job or change careers, what you're really looking for is a way to improve things in your life. But it's hard to figure out what will really make things better and what will only make things worse.
There are some things we all know: People who are in love are happier, [...]

Most of us will change careers. Most young people will change careers at least three times — after they find one, when they are thirty. So work life is really about a series of careers, and we all need to get good at the process of choosing a new career. We all need to get [...]

One of my favorite topics is the science of happiness, which academia calls positive psychology. I love this topic because most of us think of our careers in terms of happiness. That is, we look for work that makes us happy. Positive psychology turns this hunt into a science. And then tells us to look [...]

As thousands of U.S. companies ship jobs to other countries, the resounding response from young people is, "Who cares? I wouldn't want one of those jobs anyway." To the new U.S. workforce many of those jobs look boring, routine and uncreative – the equivalent of a manufacturing job to a baby boomer.
Kris Helenek is a software engineer [...]

When someone asks me, "What does your husband do?"
I say, "I don't know."
This is not an answer our society is set up to deal with. It is not okay to have no idea what you want to do, let alone be married to someone with no idea. We have two kids, and I've noticed that [...]