Did you see the piece in the New York Times about people moving out of desk jobs and into blue-collar “trade” jobs? Apparently, it’s a thing. Apparently, folks are disenchanted with jobs that show no tangible results at the end of the day. They’re tired of being penned in cramped cubicles, hunching over keyboards and squinting into monitors, producing products they may only half understand. Ain’t it refreshing to...

When deciding on a career, you have one huge limitation:You can only pursue fields of work you know about.This is why, in WG’s nsho, so many young people announce they want to be an ”athlete” or “actor” or even (eek) a ”politician.” Girls who like fashion want to be runway models. Boys who like sports picture themselves playing for the Dodgers. The problem being, of course, that the higher profile the job–the more you see...

Must. Get. Power.The good kind, of course.Agreed? To that end, here are some ideas for (nonviolent) ways to acquire power vis a vis your job:1. Only do work you really truly enjoy. You may be downtrodden, overworked, and put-upon, but you won’t care! (Much.)2. Feel able to do the work. Avoids that icky helplessness feeling in the pit of your stomach.3. Failing that, feel able to learn to do the work.4. Work with peopl...

Seems like an insane question, doesn’t it? Nowadays most people are just trying to hold on to the jobs they’ve got. But say you have a really awful job. You hate, despise, loathe it. It pays like dirt, you have no chance of improving it, and it makes every single day of your life an unbearable hell. Should you just quit?Of course if you read the news about the soaring unemployment rate, the “jobless” recovery, the ever-...

Doncha hate meetings? Most do.But even though they’re often an enormous waste of time, meetings still happen in every business, every day. Consider these ways to make meetings shorter. Some are so obvious it hurts. Some are sort of mean.Only hold a meeting if it’s really necessary. Duh. But how many completely useless meetings have you been to?Start on time.Punish latecomers. Charge them a buck. Make them serve coff...