Burnout is as much about your dreams as it is about your work, because burnout is the gap between your expectations and your ability to meet them. Jennifer Senior has a great article in this week's New York Magazine about about burnout, which I will quote from here.
Burnout is not about how many hours you [...]

Linda Chernoff is decked out in a black, floor-length gown and heels that kill her at the end of an evening. She has the conversational skills of a socialite and team building talents of a top executive. Her résumé could start with her prized "people skills" as an entrée to almost any career, but instead, [...]

I write a lot about how you have to be liked to get what you want, and how people think they're more likeable than they are. So I'm always on the lookout for what it really means to be nice, and lately I have been noticing people who are getting to the top of their field [...]

Thanksgiving is a good time for your career, because practicing gratitude is good for your career.
For one thing, if you write a list of what you're grateful for each day you are more likely to meet your most important personal goals, according to Robert Emmons, professor of psychology at University of California at Davis.
Susan Quandt [...]

The trick in business is to be consistent and reliable so that people trust you to deliver quality work all the time. But no one can do this all the time. Everyone hides sometimes.
I am pretty good at hiding. My specialty is doing work very fast, mostly because I am so willing to skip over [...]

It's good for your career.
 

Just because you're adamant about making sure you have a personal life doesn’t mean you can’t be top in your field. Top is different today than it was even ten years ago. Top doesn’t mean climbing a ladder to make the most money. Top means having influence in discussions that matter to you, and having [...]

Before we get to my list of ways to decrease stress, I want to debunk some myths.
First of all, stress at the workplace does not always cause unhappiness. Your workplace happiness hinges more on whether or not you like your work than on whether or not your work is stressful, according to Alan Krueger, professor [...]

Who you hang out with has so much to do with the quality of your life. I think about this all the time, so I was happy to see that the neurobiologists finally came up with some evidence that if you hang out with positive people, your brain actually starts thinking more positively (subscription soon).
I [...]

I write a lot about how people have to be likeable to get what they want in life. I get so frustrated, though, because everyone thinks they are likeable. Maybe to their dog, yes, but in my experience most people are not nearly as likeable as they think they are.
I thought of this because I [...]

I write a lot about the importance of specializing in your career. The bottom line is that if you are great at what you do, you will get better hours, better pay, and more flexibility in how you run your life. But no one is great at everything.
Specializing means figuring out what you don't do. [...]

Wendy Waters suggested that I write about how to deal with disabilities in the workplace. So here's a story about my friend Ann, who has a really deep voice. It isn't a sexy deep voice; it sounds more like Oscar the Grouch with a sore throat or Darth Vader on Prozac.
Her voice, which is a [...]

Check out this experiment, which shocked even me. Here is the description of it from Waxy.org:
A Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: "Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get?"
He took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad [...]

Kristen Ryan graduated a year ago and accepted a position in public relations. After two months on the job, she started having anxiety attacks, and after six months on the job, anxiety attacks were almost daily. Ryan says the anxiety was from the “pressures of life changes: Moving away from family, staring new job, transitioning [...]

Yep, it's true. This week TIME Magazine quotes me, tells tidbits of my life, and pretty much makes it sound like my job is blogging.
So next time someone asks me that all-important question, "What do you do?" I'm thinking of saying, "I'm a blogger."
Right now, when someone asks me what I do, the conversation goes [...]

For those of you about to start another year at school, here's a list of things to keep in mind: Twenty things to do in college to set yourself up for a great job when you graduate.
1. Get out of the library.
"You can have a degree and a huge GPA and not be ready [...]

When it comes to career advice, it seems that everyone has some. The trouble is figuring out who to listen to. Most people field advice from friends, parents, teachers and significant others. John Clark, a music producer and sound engineer, even found information technology consultants tossing advice his way.
Before you tell everyone to shut up, [...]

After a short blogging hiatus, I made it to Madison. I can't tell you that my happiness levels have changed dramatically, but I'm optimistic. And, after decidedly UNhappy traveling with two young kids, I'm ready for a little normalcy, which for me is blogging at midnight…
A company fired someone via text message (thanks for the [...]

I interview two or three people a week for the various columns that I write. One thing I have learned from this is that people can tell you the major ideas they have in about twenty minutes. After twenty minutes you end up getting into the details of the ideas – probably more than you [...]

John Annabel, of Northampton, walked into the office one day to find himself working side by side with a new employee whose only qualification seemed to be that she was having an affair with Annabel’s department head. Annabel says people didn’t particularly care that she was in the office doing no work until she started [...]