Weddings and Wages
The Wage Gap It is well documented that there is a wage gap between what men and women earn. It is closing, but it still exists. According to the National Committee on Wage Equity, in 1963 full-time...
View ArticleThere are starving children in Africa: Keeping things in perspective
I always found the cliché "There are starving children in Africa" response to be a pretty useless tool to use against more well-off children refusing to eat the food offered to them. In reality, the...
View ArticleSunday Breakfast Links
Things I've been reading, in the blogosphere . . . Retire by 40, who plans to become a stay-at-home dad, interviews another stay-at-home dad and blogger, Hunter from Financially Consumed. Read about...
View ArticleSetting professional goals: planning your career
Enter this week's giveaway for a chance to win $75! ------------------------------------------------------------------- We recently had our annual reviews at work, and as part of the process, we were...
View ArticleDenoument
Our tax busy-season is almost over. I have been working as slowly as possible on my final return today - because it's not even really due on Monday, but I do want everything to be over with by the end...
View ArticleProfessional career goals
The company I work for is in the process of improving our review process. The intent of the review process is not so much to provide feedback to employees as it is to encourage us to set career goals,...
View ArticleWhat do you value in a job?
When I was job hunting, I realized that I really don't have a good sense of my own values. That is to say - I was motivated to switch careers in order to have a better work life balance, or at least...
View ArticleThe value of work
Most of us go to work everyday. Some of us might prefer not to go to work, would prefer to work less, or would prefer their work to be in a different field. We also have ideas about what is "important"...
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