finding passion in your work… or not
“So maybe searching for a passion is not so bad. But it is also important to remember that there is no one way to find it, and someone else’s passion may be your idea of drudgery. And sometimes life – and work – is simply going to be putting one foot in front of the [...]
How to Make Smart Use of Smarts in the Workplace
Embrace your intelligence — and find an employer that does the same. via How to Make Smart Use of Smarts in the Workplace – washingtonpost.com. It’s a great idea, but if you’ve worked more than 10 minutes in corporate America you realize that smarts are seldom recognized and often hated. Sure, the occasional gearhead with [...]
the six figure entrepreneur
Bam! This is how you start an article: “Desperate for a job? How does CEO with a six-figure salary and flexible hours sound?” Recession turns many laid off workers into entrepreneurs – Jun. 23, 2009
reading The 4-Hour Workweek
After reading Timothy Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek I was struck by what I viewed as one of his main concepts: work is something to be avoided. The book explains how to set up a business that (largely) runs itself. His idea is to have a passive (for lack of a better word) income [...]
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where the jobs are
MainStreet.com takes a look at “where the jobs are”: According to the MainStreet.com Job Opportunity Index, the jobs are not in the most populous states such as New York and California but are in the less densely populated middle of America. North Dakota, the 3rd least populous state in the U.S., took the top spot [...]
an unemployment plan I’d endorse
For that matter, even if you are unemployed you still receive a base amount of vakantiegeld from the government, the reasoning being that if you can’t go on vacation, you’ll get depressed and despondent and you’ll never get a job. via Going Dutch – How I Learned to Love the European Welfare State. – NYTimes.com. [...]
Some Laid-Off Workers Seek New Careers as DJs
So this is what it’s come to, eh? From Tiffany to…er…Tiffany (of 80s pop star fame). Mr. Sanchez, 51, was a jewelry salesman at Tiffany & Co., on Fifth Avenue, for 23 years. After hearing what has become a familiar phrase — “You’re being laid off” — he put himself on a different sort of [...]
Should you take a step down the ladder to get a job?
Considering a step down the ladder in your career – simply to get a job – is a difficult decision. This article covers the pros and cons: Pro: …for many people, having a full-time job, even a downgrade, can be better for self esteem than reading the want ads. Says Georgia-based career coach Walter Akana, [...]
The Isolation of Unemployment
I’m talking about the icy chill of loneliness I’ve begun to experience in a culture that seems to be bustling on by, leaving me as more spectator than participant. I’m talking about the sudden need to put on a coat and tie and just go someplace! Anyplace! via The Isolation of Unemployment – Well Blog [...]
the challenge of repatriation
An interesting article (see below) about the challenges of repatriation got me thinking about my own experience. It’s not so much that I had a cultural adjustment to returning to the states, but professionally I faced tremendous challenges. I went from a Russian-speaking (and therefore unique) manager of large teams on critical clients to a [...]
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