TheJobBored

Apparently, people are taking to sites like craigslist and eBay not just to find original Voltron toys from the 80s… but simply to make ends meet (h/t SavvySugar).
Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet
At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings has soared […]

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There’s a series of things “they” always tell us to do: payoff your debt, never carry a credit card balance, fully fund your 401k and IRA every year…
One of the things “they” also mention is a rainy day emergency fund. How many of us out there are disciplined enough to have one of these? And […]

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The best time to prepare for a job loss or a layoff is before it happens. Anticipation. Preparation.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately, so I’ll have a bunch of posts on this this week. There were a lot of good things on the internet this weekend about just this topic.
Starting with this […]

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I think that this article from the NYTimes should be required reading for everybody.
Forget the complexities of credit crunches and subprime mortgage loans, if you want to know why our economy is in the situation it’s in, all you need to do is read the article and view the accompanying graph.
The bigger problem is […]

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This is something I’ve been worried about for some time now.
We all know that the collective declines in the value of our homes has hurt our pocketbook.
But the resulting immobility of the workforce - the fact that we can’t just pick up and move to a better job because we can’t sell the house we’re […]

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A commenter left a brief note last week about job search expenses.
I was thinking of writing a more formal post, but as I sat down to think about it, I thought it better to list all the job search expenses I could think of.
I don’t think a lot of people think about the amount of […]

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One of my pet peeves is how middle class people can never get ahead.
You go $60,000 in debt just to get a degree for a career that is supposed to make you self sufficient.
Then you spend 20 years pay off that school debt.
Then (if you’re lucky) as soon as you pay off the debt, you […]

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Thanks for SavvySugar for doing the research on this one.
Sitting around wondering when you can get your hands on that economic stimulus check? After all, how can we all run to Target and spend our way out of recession if we don’t have the money in our pockets?
Well, it’s the government, so it’s not coming […]

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It’s a well-established fact, but probably a little-known one.
Your job search expenses can be tax deductible.
We’ve been telling our clients this for years: if you get your resume professionally produced, the cost of the resume is tax deductible.
SavvySugar has a rundown of the details:

Your job search must be for a position in the same field […]

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I was lucky enough to see Chris Rock in concert last Friday night at Detroit’s Fox Theater.
One of his bits, funny enough, fit in with this blog. Since we’ve been talking about raises recently, I thought I’d pass along the gist of what he said, without blowing the joke.
Chris had a long bit about how […]

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