career advice
We Don’t Want to be Downers, but are your Career Prospects Evaporating?
April 9, 2010 0 Comments
Careers are not what they used to be! Some professions (e.g. medicine, law, and the military) still offer a fairly consistent career structure, but for most of us, the old and reliable career structures are evaporating. This is not a problem for “Millenials” (born 1980 Read More
Should you take a Homographic Approach to your Career Planning?
April 2, 2010 0 Comments
A Homo what?? Homographs are words that have two distinct meanings. For example: “It’s probably not appropriate if we appropriate their results” or “the august citizen will take office in August” or in the case of career planning, “his career ended after his car was Read More
Career Development and Playing the Banjo
April 1, 2010 0 Comments
Three years ago I started taking banjo lessons. Don’t ask me why. I guess the idea of being totally unfashionable just appealed to me. I didn’t know what I was getting myself in for! My teacher just happened to be a former world champion banjo Read More
4 Tips for Managing a Mid-Life Career Change
September 18, 2009 0 Comments
From personal experience I have found that there are only two types of people who change careers in mid life: those who want to and those who have to. And it seems that the “have to” group is in the majority these days. With this Read More
Tip #41: 3 Tips For Dealing With A Terrible Boss
April 17, 2009 0 Comments
At some point in your professional career you will have a manager who is so bad that they make it absolutely unbearable to go into work in the morning. It is almost inevitable. Whether is it is treating employees unfairly, favoring some employees over others, Read More
Tip #31: Tips for surviving the ever changing work environment
April 14, 2009 0 Comments
In today’s turbulent and constantly changing business world jobs are constantly changing. So what are “Baby Boomers” supposed to do when some young Gen Y’er walks in off the street with the latest and greatest computer or internet skills and business school buzz words? Here Read More














