Guest Post: Your finances and your job (there’s more to work than money)
(Laura's note: Today's guest post is from Caroline Ceniza-Levine, the career coach who introduced me to the List of 100 Dreams exercise that appears in …Read More
Category Archives: Career
USA Today: Not Your Grandpa’s Retirement
(My column on seniors working longer ran in USA Today yesterday; text is below. There were split opinions in the comments section. Some subscribed to …Read More
The futility of balance
"Work-life balance" is such a cliche that it's inspired it's own anti-cliche, namely, that "you can have it all, just not at one time." I don't …Read More
10 things I learned about time and money in 2010
I'll be taking a break for the holidays, and then traveling for a week after that. So this may be my last post of 2010. …Read More
What can marriage advice do for your career?
Over at BNET, I posted a Q&A with Alisa Bowman, author of Project: Happily Ever After. A few years ago, Bowman (a Pennsylvania-based journalist) was …Read More
Never get a “real” job: Q&A with Scott Gerber
Long before I wrote 168 Hours, I wrote an op-ed (in 2004!) for USA Today called "The Sanity of Self-Employment." The idea was that for …Read More
If you’re lucky enough to get a bonus…
...how should you spend it? It's a question many people would love to ponder, and if the economy continues to grow, perhaps a few more people …Read More
Bang for your buck? Or buck for your bang?
(From Laura: I am on the road again this week. Today I'm delighted to welcome Heather Allard as a guest poster. She may be best …Read More
Moms in the corner office
Back in 2002, economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett caused quite a stink with her research findings that 49% of corporate women earning over $100,000 a year …Read More
With no jobs, grads “gamble” on education
(This column runs today in USA Today. If you're coming over from the newspaper website, welcome! I hope you'll look around and read some of …Read More
