PayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: Should You Stay at Your Job if You Hate Your Boss?
By the time you’re old enough to have a career, you understand that you won’t get everything you want out of every (or perhaps any) job. Some gigs will offer low pay, but high meaning, or the chance to...
View ArticleWhy You Get the Sunday Night Blues (Even If You Like Your Job)
On the surface, it makes no sense: you finally have a job you love, or at least like, but here you are, dealing with the Sunday Night Blues again. Before you question whether you’re on the right track...
View ArticleIvanka Trump’s Unpaid Intern Offers Tips on Working for Free, Not Starving
The Department of Labor has a six-part test for unpaid interns, which determines whether or not for-profit companies can ask them to work for free. In order to stay on the right side of the law,...
View ArticleRyan Lochte Shows You How Not to Repair Your Professional Reputation
By now, even people who couldn’t care less about swimming or the Olympics are familiar with Ryan Lochte, and not because Esquire network is marathoning his blessedly brief foray into reality TV. But if...
View ArticleWhat Do the 10 Most ‘New York’ Jobs Pay?
Image Credit: Andrew Ruiz/Unsplash It might seem obvious, but some cities are just better than others in terms of opportunity for various occupations, even though high-paying jobs are often pretty...
View ArticleHow Your Job Is Different, Because the Internet Was Invented
Despite what you might have read on social media, yesterday was not actually the 25th anniversary of the internet — that happened in March 2014, 25 years after Tim Berners-Lee proposed an information...
View ArticleKeep the Ring, Lose the Sexism
Recently, a recruiter named Bruce Hurwitz wrote a post on LinkedIn called, When Interviewing for a Job, Lose the Ring! In it, he advised women to leave their Hope Diamond-sized engagement rings at...
View Article5 Growing Jobs That Wouldn’t Exist Without Tim Berners-Lee
Earlier this week, you probably started seeing a lot of posts wishing the internet (or more accurately, the World Wide Web) a happy 25th birthday. There’s a reason we care so much, and it’s not just...
View ArticleWomen’s Equality Day: 4 Successful Women Tell You How to Ask for More
On August 26, 1920, Congress certified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. In the 96 years since, women have used their enfranchisement to push for...
View ArticlePayScale’s VIP Blog Roundup: 4 Signs Your Job Interview Isn’t Going Well
In the course of a lifetime, how many job interviews will you go on? Even if you’re a real go-getter, not that many, relative to the millions of other meetings, conversations, and social interactions...
View Article3 Excellent Pieces of Career Advice Your Dog Would Give You, If He Spoke Human
Today is National Dog Day, which means that you’re probably reading this in between oohing and ahhing over puppy photos on Instagram. If you’re supposed to be working, hopefully you’re doing that, as...
View Article#MotivationMonday: 7 Famous Tennis Players Tell You How to Make It Happen
The U.S. Open starts today in New York, and while the $150-million retractable roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium is expected to keep out any rain, the real challenge for the athletes is dealing with...
View ArticleHow NOT to Get a Raise: Hike the Price of EpiPen
This morning, EpiPen-maker Mylan announced that it would release a generic version of its product for $300, half the current price of EpiPen. This comes on the heels of last week’s announcement that...
View ArticleAmazon Experiments With 30-Hour Workweek for Some Employees
Amazon.com employs nearly 240,000 workers worldwide, some of whom work part-time with the same benefits as regular workers. But, the company hasn’t had entire teams of workers, including managers, who...
View ArticleMiddle-Wage Jobs Make a Comeback
Since the end of the recession in 2009, the news has been grim for middle-income workers. Many middle-wage jobs disappeared during the Great Recession, while new jobs clustered in high- and low-earning...
View ArticleAre Cooks and Chefs the Most Egotistical Workers in America?
Who’s the best at their job at your workplace? “Me!” shout cooks and chefs around the country. Image Credit: ShuttrKing|KT/Flickr PayScale’s latest report, Which American Workers Have the Biggest...
View ArticleADP Jobs Report: Private Sector Added 177,000 Jobs in August
Prior to this morning’s release of the ADP National Employment Report, economists were predicting average gains of 175,000 jobs to private-sector payrolls, according to Reuters. The report showed that...
View Article93 Percent of Workers Say They’re More Productive Outside the Office
If you’re like most workers, the location in which you do your job isn’t up to you. Your company either allows employees to work from home, on a part-time or full-time basis … or mandates that everyone...
View ArticleHow to Become a Graphic Designer
Graphic designers get the thrill of turning a client’s vision into visual reality, and the satisfaction of making a living with art—not something every creative person gets to say. On the other hand,...
View Article3 Ways to Reboot Your To-Do List
There are two major schools of thought about to-do lists. Some claim they’re a waste of time, a distraction at best and confusing at worst. Others can’t imagine life—especially work-life—without them....
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