Disney calls its theme park workers “cast members” instead of employees. Silicon Valley startups sometimes have bizarre titles on their business cards. IBM has “Data Detective” as a job title. Do...

U.S.News & World Report gives us a list of the...  ...sampling:Consulting software engineer (median mid- career salary: $123,000). These high-end programmers des...

Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.How many times have we heard this advice? And when we hear it, we all have a sort of fantasy that we never manage to share. This reminds me of the time I told my young...

[https://youtu.be/khOaAHK7efc] (YouTube link)When you ponder how you're going to spend your time on earth, it's useful to at least temporarily ignore the fact that money runs -and ruins- everything. Oh, it's a lovely fan...

If you grew up in the 1990s, you probably watched Freaks and Geeks, My So-Called Life, Boy Meets World, The Wonder Years, and other TV shows that featured young actors portraying nerds, or at least characters that displa...

Business Cat is an image meme in which a cat holds a desk job. Most of what you see around the 'net are pithy statements mixing business and cat culture. But here's a post that takes you through the entire day of a house...

How would you advise a student who decides she wants to go for a PhD in English literature? Not that it matters; the student doesn't really want advice, just a written recommendation. Despite the computer generated audio...

People can pick up skills in the strangest places....  ...People Who Turned a Life of Crime Into Legitimate Careers that you can read about at Cracked. Link

Scientific jobs can be glamorous and certainly are interesting, but they often a lot of hard work, and possibly gross work. Popular Science has published its annual list of the ten worst jobs in science. One of the less...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Natio...  ...statistics from 2008, here are the five deadliest careers . 1. Fishers 2. Loggers 3. Aircraft Pilots an...