The Great Unsubscribe
Several weeks ago, I had a realization: I was spending a lot of time deleting email. Every day, I seemed to get dozens of unwanted …Read More
Category Archives: Career
Would you get pregnant to take a year off work?
Crazy as it sounds to American mothers, over in the UK, women can take up to a year off work, partially paid, after having a …Read More
Is parenthood a job?
Every year in time for Mother’s Day, Salary.com produces a figure showing how much you’d have to pay for the job of “mom.” The answer …Read More
Equally Shared Parenting
(Laura's note: I'm taking the week off, and revisiting some posts from past years. This book review ran in January of 2010). Over the past few …Read More
The not-so-secret life of billionaires
I got a kick out of Kevin Roose's feature in the New York Times on "Living Like a Billionaire, if Only For a Day." The …Read More
Is anything all-consuming?
Maybe I’m just sensitive, but I’ve been reading a fair number of acknowledgements in books lately that talk of book-writing as an “all consuming” process. …Read More
Getting out of a rut
I've been reading Getting from College to Career, the classic career guidebook by Lindsey Pollak (a longtime friend of this blog -- click on that …Read More
The New Tupperware
A few years ago, I went to a Tupperware party in a friend’s apartment. It was a somewhat surreal experience. The official Tupperware representative was …Read More
The 4-Year Career
Over at Fast Company, Anya Kamenetz has a fascinating article on "The Career of the Future." Complete with timelines of several people's working lives, the …Read More
My money philosophy
I’m attempting to distill my thoughts about money into talking points for All the Money in the World publicity. In my maturation as an author …Read More