Raised by a lawyer dad and accountant mom, Arnold whizzed through Vanderbilt University in three years. He became an oil trader for Enron, supposedly earning $750 million for the company in 2001, when he was just 27. He went into business for himself after Enron collapsed a year later. Today he runs hedge fund Centaurus […]
It’s a sad fact. Most freelancers and entrepreneurs have silly job titles. People have a terrible tendency to get carried away with their new-found power, and end up making fools of themselves. Make sure you’re not one of them. Let’s be honest. Creative Director sounds awesome, doesn’t it? When someone cute asks […]
Our culture worships planning. Everything must be planned in advance. Our days, week, years, our entire lives. We have diaries, schedules, checklists, targets, goals, aims, strategies, visions even. Career planning is the most insidious of these cults precisely because it encourages a feeling of control over your reactions to future events. As that interview question […]
The key question today isn’t what’s dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here’s why I’m looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter has exploded, growing far beyond its circles of bleeding-edge tech enthusiasts and […]
I love internet cafes. Given that my job requires hours of sitting and typing, sitting and drawing, or sitting and procrastinating, a change of scenery is welcome, allowing me to be around people without actually having to interact with them, listen to them or acknowledge their existence beyond sharing a power outlet. To me, a […]
Starting any new job can be as nerve-wracking as it is exciting. While you’re anxious for a fresh start and to meet new people, you’re nervous that you won’t be able to do the job or you won’t fit in with co-workers. Things inevitably work out, but that initial doubt can […]
This time around, one-third of the sites with the most votes are general-purpose job boards that serve a broad cross-section of industries, professions, and locations. The other two-thirds are niche sites that focus on a specific industry, career field, or geographic area. That mix is probably no coincidence. “Most job seekers use a number of different […]
All that online pressure, all the instant messages on AIM and Gchat, all those YouTube comments and Facebook messages and wall posts added up to something: Two more delegates for Sen. Barack Obama. In a YouTube video posted shortly before midnight yesterday, Lauren Wolfe and […]
As a life transition coach, Andrew Susskind specializes in coaching baby boomers through career transitions. “A lot of people are evaluating where they are, where they’ve been and where they’re going,” he says, and hiring a private coach can make all the difference. Executive coach Joel Garfinkle built his business around that principle, and has […]
Like other couples, D-D Flannery and her husband have an assortment of buzzing hand-held devices in the bedroom to help keep things lively. The problem is, these devices don’t improve their love life — just their work flow. “If you come to my house in the evening, you’ll find me in bed with the […]
