Category: work

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work

Smart, Hardworking, And Reliable Is Often Enough

I stumbled upon a really interesting article in USA Today recently that got me thinking about employment in the modern age.  The article detailed how many companies are snapping up talented folks even when they don’t have positions available for...

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work

Proof That Less Is More At Work

If you don’t know my story, I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth.  I’ve been periodically writing about my experiences with this new lifestyle both at work and outside...

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work

Are We Headed To An IQ Economy?

Artificial Intelligence and technology are rapidly changing jobs and the future of work.  The job environment that will exist when you reach financial independence or retire will be very different, perhaps to your advantage.  This post is the first in...

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work

Can We Please Stop Squashing Entrepreneurship?

Last summer in Stapleton Colorado three little boys decided to set up a lemonade stand.  Better still, they decided to give all proceeds to a five year old boy in Indonesia using a charity called Compassion International.  The kids running the stand...

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work

Unemployment Is All Over The Map

The unemployment rate in America hit 3.7% in September 2018, the lowest since 1969.  The economy is strong.  Sure, it’s easy to cherry pick articles that claim it’s meaningless since so many people are “out of the labor force”, but...

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side-hustle / work

I Miss The Power Of Teamwork

On November 26th NASA landed he robot “Insight” on Mars.  Read that again.  They put a robot on Mars.  “Didn’t we do that back in the 70’s?”  you may be thinking.  Yes, we did.  We first landed a spacecraft successfully...

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Why Middle Management Sucks

About 11 years into my current job I became a supervisor.  It just happened, sometimes you have to step up to fill a void.  I had been front-loading my career for a while, meaning simply working my butt off.  I...

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geography and geoarbitrage / work

Where Work Pays

I have a treat for you today readers.  You know I love me some maps, especially interactive ones.   I recently discovered a very nifty site that serves up salary data for 320 different occupations across the country.  In other words,...

Are You The Mission Or An Enabler? 40

work

Are You The Mission Or An Enabler?

A little while back I did a post called Is Your Job Total B.S.?  It discussed a Bloomberg article about David Graeber’s book, Bullshit Jobs. In sum Graeber, asserts that most jobs today are total B.S., especially what he calls...

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miscellaneous / work

A Day In The Life Data Visualization

I have a cool post today to show an awesome data visualization website I stumbled upon.  I know, you’re thinking “who stumbles upon data visualization websites?”  Me, that who.  I’m waving my dork flag high! Using data from the American...

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