More than a living

There is an uncomfortable, anxious pang that wells up in you when the halls have been empty for hours, and you know that you and the janitor are the only people in the building – again. You feel like maybe the fault is yours, that you aren’t quite working effective enough, that you could manage […]

You’re tired of the race. Tired of working tirelessly in shifting sands of corporate America as an exempt FTE. But you do it with the hope of the BIG payday. You’ve got options in the company, and it seems that if everyone just works a little harder, the pay-off will come.
But what if it doesn’t? […]

So, I just heard that Yahoo! Finance has decided to fire Penelope Trunk.
I mean, who would want to work with someone who thinks like this?
I just choose the lifestyle I want first, before I choose my work. Lifestyle first means that I turned down entry-level bullshit jobs in favor of playing professional beach volleyball. Not […]

Anyone who talks to me about their current corporate career will likely have heard me utter—likely innumerable times—my quintessential thought about staying in one place too long, “You’re not going to retire from there.”
Truth of the matter is that there are very few, if any, corporations that should be giving away gold watches to long, […]

Everyone complains about meetings. Seems that they’re all useless.
But I have to imagine that there are some meetings that are valuable. Aren’t there? I mean, I get the chance to participate in some pretty productive meetings.
So I know they’re out there.
Toby and I were bemoaning this sad state of affairs when something struck me.
What if […]

So Rick and I were talking about passion for your work. Do you love what you do? How badly would you want to change to actively go out and find a better alternative to the job the current have (and maybe hate)?
So here’s a quick straw poll - what percentages do you think define the […]

[NOTE: I’ve been struggling with the title on this one for three days. And, while I can’t quite capture the idea in the headline, I still feel that this is imperative to get off of my proverbial chest.]
People are quite protective of their “tools.”
Oooh. Tools. They’re oh-so-valuable. Lah-di-dah.
Their software. Their methodology. Their ways of doing […]

To continue to riff on the “Common sense isn’t so common” theme…
I know you’re a smart cookie. So I know, for certain, that you’re often blindsided by moments of clarity. Insanely insightful leaps of intuition that just kind of pop into your head.
“It all seems so obvious,” you say to yourself. And after people quit […]

Sure, sure. You see us carp and complain about how horrible want ads are. Constantly describing the role instead of the problem that needs to be solved.
Well, you know, in all fairness, want ads are only part of the problem.
I mean, want ads suck. But, let’s face it. By and large, resumes suck, too.
And when […]

Common sense. It seems so, well, common.
Truth of the matter is: it’s not.
I mean, common common sense is a little more prevalent than for which I give it credit. But your common sense?
Nope. Not common, at all.
You see, your common sense is different than everyone else’s common sense. Your common sense is based on the […]