So everyone’s lamenting the tragic turn our society has taken – economically, politically, socially.   And I agree that things are objectively not as good in America as they were 10 years ago.  But they’re still better than they were during the Civil War, or the Black Plague, or, if you think about it, most periods of human ...

To rally those who have lost their jobs or are facing possible job loss in the current devastated economic climate, Quintessential Careers has created Job Action Day. Job Action Day, which is today, aims to empower workers and job-seekers to take proactive steps to shore up their job and career outlook.  As a blogger in this space, ...

So Bill Gates is preparing to retire as CEO of Microsoft. Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to make and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, an early computer that was sold to hobbyists. Gates dropped out of Harvard University in his third year to focus on ...

The other night, I was watching a re-run of an episode of Wife Swap.  I’ve seen this show before, and more often than not one of the characters is a stay-at-home-mom who acts very self-righteous about the fact that it is her job to take care of her children, and that it’s not appropriate to allow anyone else to be involved.   I’ve ...

Thanks to Penelope Trunk for sharing a great post from Nina Smith over at Queercents.  In recent years, I have met many gay colleagues who felt more comfortable being out of the closet at work, then with, say, their parents.  Smith maintains that gays who are out at work have stronger careers.  She herself developed a closer and ...

So Al Gore was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for  being ''probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted'' to combat climate change, according to his citation. (The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was also a joint winner of the ...

I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow authors and pals Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything), and Lindsey Pollak (From ...

As you’ve heard me mention from time to time, my husband is a clinical psychologist.  He’s currently studying for the Illinois licensing exam, and in this study materials I found a great section on industrial/organizational psychology (I/O).     What is this, exactly?  Wikipedia defines it as the application of psychological ...

This week, I’m on a speaking tour at several corporations in the U.S. and abroad, training twenty-somethings and their managers on what recent college grads need to do in order to succeed in today’s business climate.  As a result of meeting hundreds of twenty-somethings over the course of the last few years and reading all of the research I ...

[ImageAttachment]   I'm both frightened and intrigued by a new Center for Work-Life Policy study I found via the Fast Company blog.  According to the new research and the CWLP study, work for many has become the ultimate extreme sport - high level, high impact workers pushing themselves beyond their limits; working around the clock and ...