Archive for the ‘ Work ’ Category

Best Careers: Instructional Coordinators

Another career on the Best Careers List that has the happy and satisfied workers. I believe the list, but everything I read about this particular job made me feel vicarious stress. Maybe some people like having several concerned groups of interested parties looking over their shoulders and watching what they do every step of the [ READ MORE ]

Vocation Vacations – Test Drive Your Dream Career

How To Quell the Fear-of-Change Demon Inside You I love the Seinfeld episode where Kramer traipses off to a baseball fantasy camp and George, in a moment of nostril-flaring frustration says, “Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp! People should plunk down two thousand dollars to live like him [ READ MORE ]

Did Any 2007 Best Actor Nominees Attend College?

Many actors grow up on stage – spending their childhoods in a spotlight of some sort – why would they stop their careers to go to university? Very few actors actually attend college and if they do, a high percentage drop out. Famous college dropouts include: Jake Gyllenhaal – Columbia University, Woody Allen – New [ READ MORE ]

Best Careers: Physical Therapists

I posted previously about CareerJournal.com’s Best Careers List, for which they used their powers for good and not evil, to obtain. They surveyed career-focused people to find a list of common attributes people who are most satisfied with their jobs: -Good intellectual stimulation -Strong job security -High level of control and freedom in what to [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Overrated Careers

U.S. News and World Report released their list of the top 10 overrated careers for 2007. The list was drawn from more than 2,500 confidential counseling sessions with real-world professionals over 20 years. Often the work is more tedious than others would guess. Or people enter a career to make a difference only to encounter [ READ MORE ]

Majoring in Video Game Development

NPR today ran a story about the mainstreaming of video game development as viable college major. Game development has arrived in the upper echelons of academia; it has outgrown it’s previous status as a novelty “Buffy the Vampire Studies” type of major. From the NPR lead off: This year, the University of Southern California enrolled [ READ MORE ]

Schools of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Are H-O-T If you have a yen to make a dollar (holy bad joke, Batman) by joining the entrepreneurial ranks (the badness of that is still hurting me), then you are in luck, my friend. Being young and hip and using your noggin to come up with the next new thing is now considered [ READ MORE ]

Challenges Facing Moms Restarting Careers

Examining the Trend of College-Educated Women Leaving the Workforce I love research done by people who’ve heard a general, society-wide rumor and just have to know whether or not it’s based in fact. Sylvia Ann Hewlett (author of the 2002 book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children) recently researched just how [ READ MORE ]

Extra-Marital Sex More Likely in Graduate Degree Holders

Forbes Magazine printed a few opinion pieces about the recent findings in several social science journals that two career couprles run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. Not surprising considering how stressful it can be to juggle life, family, and career. Evidently male breadwinner marriages are most stable. I was surprised by these [ READ MORE ]

Lefty College Grads Earn More Money

Left-handed male college graduates make 26% more than their right-handed counterparts, according to researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University. There are “several suggestive and economically and statistically significant results that suggest further support for the notion that handedness matters,” they wrote. “We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings.” [ READ MORE ]