I read a Baltimore Sun article a few days back that noted the struggles that young people face when choosing the real estate industry as a profession. In very basic terms, the factors noted in the article are self-evident. That is, people looking to buy or sell a home or commercial property will often “discriminate” […]

I went to my feed reader today to get the daily dose of employment fodder and found that some folks were talking about Generation Y, those “crazy kids” who are just a little bit younger than I am. OK, so I’m 33 and firmly entrenched in the flannel-shirt-wearing, Nirvana-listening Gen X crowd. Side note: I […]

There are those who are naturally drawn to a career in sales. They have that certain “something” that helps them block out rejection and focus on the positive, to keep plowing ahead, come what may. I’m not certain that such people are “born” to a sales jobs, but there are definitely personality types that are […]

I am an entrepreneur and have been so for the last 10 years. With my trusted partner, we’ve been through several business models, traveled many paths and experienced various levels of success and failure. Both of us worked in the “real world” for a very short time - roughly two years - and our business […]

An article in Tuesday’s Baltimore Sun highlighted the growing demand for patent and intellectual property attorneys. The demand for these types of attorneys has mirrored the astronomical growth in the number of patent filings over the past two decades. Part of the reason why patent and intellectual property attorneys are so hard to find is […]

…for never bothering to take that extra step to figure shit out. - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone.
That is the majority of a quote from an unflattering article about Rudy Giuliani and why he’s not the answer for president. But I liked it much more outside of that context and I think there is great truth […]

In reading C.M. Russell’s blog, Secrets of the Job Hunt, I again stumbled upon a site with which I was previously unfamiliar. As always, Russell picks up on just about every new site related to the employment industry as soon as it exists…nice redesign on “Secrets” too.
The most recent of Russell’s finds is internEval, a […]

As some of you may be aware, Ben Stein writes a piece entitled How Not to Ruin Your Life for Yahoo! Finance. It’s a play on the title of his book, How to Ruin Your Life, that seems to have been a pretty successful publication for him, given the number of positive reviews I browsed […]

In a recent article from Money Magazine Editor Jean Chatzky, the concept of “adultolescence” is introduced and discussed in some detail. According to the article, two in three college graduates will return home after graduation to live with their parents. Chatzky explains the phenomenon as follows:
How did adultolescence come about? Blame rising college costs and […]

C.M. Russell, over at Secrets of the Job Hunt, was kind enough to share some starting salaries, by major, of college graduates from the 2006 graduating classes. His information is from membership-based naceweb.org:
$56,269 Chemical Engineering
$53,096 ComputerEngineering
$53,500 Electrical Engineering
$50,744 Computer Science
$51,808 Mechanical Engineering
$47,182 Information Science
$45,391 Management Information Systems
$44,928 Accounting
$41,115 Business Administration
$37,191 Marketing
$32,870 Liberal Arts
$30,369 Psychology