I found a blog post from late August in the Baltimore Sun that cites the highly publicized census report on state-by-state income. As some of you may know, Maryland is now the state with the highest median income in the country. The post pointed out that, in Maryland, the median income for women was 81.4% […]

There is an admittedly simple (but not too simple) analysis of this personal choice at Money, Matter, and More Musings entitled Jobs That Pay Badly and People Who Choose Them. The post talks about why people choose certain jobs, even though they require an inordinate amount of effort and personal commitment in return for less […]

The following rant is primarily intended for young and new job seekers who have not already committed themselves to a mortgage, car payments, and an obsession with keeping up with the “Patels’.”
Most of us are conditioned to spend what we make. Sure, we build in some investments and emergency savings here and there, but we’re […]

Incendiary title? Perhaps, but for all you job seekers out there, you know you’ve been through it. It’s downright painful to have someone that you know is much less intelligent than you have any power over the hiring process that will directly affect you, but what can you do? Not much, really, but you could […]

We have to address this question every time we look around our house or apartment and realize that there’s a problem that we might be able to fix on our own. Maybe you need to paint a room, remove some wallpaper, or fix a leaking toilet. Maybe you want to hang ceiling fans. Whatever the […]

I was listening to one of my favorite talk radio show hosts yesterday on XM radio - Larry Elder. Since anyone who is heavily bent to either side of the political dial will probably know who that is, I may have just lost 50percent of my audience, that’s OK. The […]

The perception of India in the United States is often one of an infinite well of IT and technical talent, usually willing to work for wages below those of their American counter-parts. All of the talk of outsourcing and the growing demand for H-1B visas for foreign workers to enter the U.S. certainly contributes to […]

Job seekers who are searching for work through temp agencies and staffing firms are sometimes unaware of the leverage that they possess during the salary negotiation phase of the hiring process. Unlike direct employers, temp agencies and staffing firms have built in a mark-up or margin between what their client companies are paying them and […]