Are you bored with your job?
According to a spate of recent headlines, the dangerous epidemic of workplace boredom is stalking the cubicles of developed nations. According to one Gallup poll, …Read More
Category Archives: Career
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
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
