Archive for the ‘Career’ Category
This recession has hit recent grads hard.
Case-in-point: Scott Nicholson, 24, is crashing at his parents’ place and searching for a job with little success. And yet, he turned down a $40,000 job offer in [...]
July 9th, 2010. Topics: Job Hunting. Read More »
If you want to make your summer job count towards your professional future, few opportunities are better than a summer internship.
Internships are available all over the place, including with companies as big as Google [...]
June 4th, 2010. Topics: Internships, Summer Jobs. Read More »
Yesterday, I wrote about choosing a summer job that will help your future career. But what if you just need to make as much cash as possible? Then look to these highest paying summer jobs, [...]
June 2nd, 2010. Topics: Summer Jobs. Read More »
For most college students, summer employment is a must. The need to earn money for college tuition, living expenses, books and spending money throughout the school year leads most students to frantically scour the help [...]
June 1st, 2010. Topics: Summer Jobs. Read More »
When Forbes named Portland, Maine the most livable city in America this year, it didn’t surprise my wife and I or any of Portland’s other 64,000 denizens. With a low cost of living, great culture [...]
October 15th, 2009. Topics: Career, Time Value. Read More »
For today’s information workers, offices don’t make sense. Why commute in rush-hour traffic to sit in a cube and write, research, and make phone calls: all things you could do anywhere? For many workers, ending—or [...]
September 23rd, 2009. Topics: Work/Life Balance. Read More »
Today, I become a truly full-time blogger. I have been preparing for this day for eight months (and dreaming of it for several years). Now that it has arrived, I am both excited and petrified, [...]
September 8th, 2009. . Read More »
Will attending an elite college like Harvard or Stanford result in a higher salary? (On average, yes). How much more do engineering majors bring home than English majors? (As much as $21,800 to start).
Most important: [...]
August 6th, 2009. . Read More »
It’s been the mantra of entrepreneurs for generations: “You can’t get rich on a salary.” Is it true? With scant exceptions, even top-paid execs, doctors, and lawyers make less than $1 million a year. And [...]
July 28th, 2009. . Read More »
To all the recent graduates out there: Congratulations. You have worked hard, and your accomplishments are well-deserved. Now, welcome to the jungle of reality. And this year, it really is a jungle out there. If [...]
May 28th, 2009. . Read More »
