Tagged: job

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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,...

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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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Is Your Job Total B.S.?

You read that right.  Is it?  I mean, if your job and what it produces went away tomorrow, would the world be worse off? That’s the thrust behind a book from a guy named David Graeber, and this article from...

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For Better Work-Life Balance, Work More

You heard it right.  I like Lifehacker, they usually put out good content that’s helpful in many aspects of life but they’re definitely not immune to the absurd and outrageous.  A few weeks ago they ran this hilarious post that...

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What I Signed Up For

I’ve been semi-retired to part time at my W2 job since October of 2017.  I wrote about my initial experiences and feelings early on back in November, but it’s my intention to keep updating my experience as the journey progresses....

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