I fell into a burning ring of fire…
If you want to read a gruesome story, go no further, gentle reader. I can’t say I sympathize too much with the guy in the story – too many beers and Xboxes and lottery tickets in the expenditure column to feel sympathetic. At the same time, the economic “fallout” from families like these will affect [...]
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 [...]
$430 Doesn’t Go Far
Lose your job in Boston, Pittsburgh, Seattle or Trenton and you could collect $544 or more per week in unemployment benefits. But get laid off in New York City, as almost 200,000 workers have in the past year, and the most you can collect is $430 a week. via For New York’s Newly Jobless, $430 [...]
Never Say Thank You
This very short piece says everything you need to know about investment banking (and trust me, public accounting was not far off of this, either): Never Say Thank You – NYTimes.com.
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 [...]
Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
Holy hell, this is depressing. At least if you live in New York. I don’t like living around this type of lifestyle… “People inherently understand that if they are going to get ahead in whatever corporate culture they are involved in, they need to take on the appurtenances of what defines that culture,” she said. [...]
location independent lives
Mr. Ronai, 62, has owned an apartment on Riverside Drive in Manhattan for three decades. But since 2002 he has run his financial consultancy many weeks of the year from a home office perched at nearly 10,000 feet in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. Although this lifestyle probably appeals to many, I am sure [...]
How to escape your rat race
Is working in a corporate environment inherently boring, or is it the physical environment of highrises and office parks? Perhaps cubicles and dull light account for some of the dissatisfaction we feel. I came across an interesting article from O (Oprah’s magazine) online. The point of the study was not solely on the physical environment’s [...]
From earning six figures to hoping for $7 an hour – CNN.com
I think we’ll start seeing more stories like this in the media. I’d argue that the reality is not so much that this woman was a “true” six-figure earner; her earnings were vastly inflated and now we’re seeing a return to “normal” wages. In her best year as a mortgage broker, Laura Glick says she [...]
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