What if you could be a fly in the wall at some company you’re really interested in joining? Know what life is really like at the company where you commit your precious 50 hours a week to.
As employees, we get ourselves ranked, rated and reviewed every time we have a performance evaluation from which […]
Recession proof your job and career!
I’m planning a series that lists out some of the best choices you can make during this recession. I’ll start off with what you can do for your job and career during tough times like we’re experiencing now.
With unemployment numbers aggravating the markets last week, we’re seeing a quadruple […]
Can you really double your salary without having to work more? What a premise!
I’ve never met anyone who didn’t want to get paid more for the job they were doing. I’ve heard it described time and again that the best job out there, is one that offers you the most money for […]
Think back to the time when you’d take on summer jobs or interned while you were still in school. It was fun, easy and earned you some extra bucks. So who says we can’t keep on doing this long after our teenage years are over?
I actually have a family member in […]
The high-tech industry is mostly for younger people — it can be highly stressful since it requires that you be on your toes, learning new technologies so that you can escape the undesirable label of being a tech “dinosaur”.
But during my career as a software engineer, I’ve had the pleasure of working with a […]
Start looking good and you may just earn more money.
Vanity and the search for physical perfection cuts across genders. In the past, I’d written about the business of beauty and the economics of cosmetics, where I talked a great deal about how much work women do to make themselves look more attractive. I […]
I’ve had my fair share of job hunting escapades and know the frustration that goes along with the search. You know what your skills are, but if you are not effectively communicating those skills through a resume, you could find yourself out of luck and out of a potentially good job.
For a brief period […]
In the next few days I am planning to talk about how I’ve exited my corporate life and how I’m transitioning to a new one. For now, I’d like to let you in on how my last day of work turned out. It was as expected, a bittersweet event as I made the […]
Do you believe in a perfect life? Or “having it all”?
This message is to those who aim to have everything.
When you’re told that you are a perfectionist or an achiever, it’s something you’d normally be pretty happy to hear, because this would mean that you’re probably all set to be one of […]
There are many means to the same end, and many roads to financial independence.
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Wouldn’t it be a great feeling to finally realize you’re financially independent? I know I would be. But to get to that point, we all need to build up enough of a nest egg that would be […]
Chinese Factory Workers Work ‘Inside’ Huge Metal Press
At this very moment, somebody out there is not having a good day at work. In fact, there could be entire factories of people out there who are on the verge of walking away from their jobs, but can’t or don’t. Many such individuals just don’t […]
