TheJobBored

I offer up this post, not as an endorsement of kissing butt, but as an informational essay.
Let’s face it… we all have negative feelings about ass kissers. And yet, we all know that, as a strategy for getting ahead in life, kissing butt can’t be beat. People wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
I’m in […]

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I was contacted this morning by an old client of mine. About 5 years back, I helped this guy write 4 resumes in about 18 months for 4 different internships.
The internships were in all sorts of different industries. The guy didn’t quite know what career he wanted to end up in and thus figured he […]

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This is another post prompted by an Ask Brian question I got via email that was too narrow to post here, but got me thinking along these lines.
A lot of people toil away in their jobs, doing good work, working hard… only to see lesser, stupider people jump ahead of them on the career ladder.
If […]

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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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I got the following question in my Ask Brian email.
Please help! I am a thirty something male with questionable fashion sense of my own, and thus do not feel qualified to offer any guidance in this area.
Perhaps a reader more qualified than I can pass along some advice in the comments.
I have a question. […]

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Dee has been a regular reader and regular commenter here for the last few months. She left a comment recently saying she had just gotten a job. So I wrote her and asked her to tell us how she did it… what worked; what didn’t; what she learned. So, in her own words, this is […]

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If you woke up today and your morning paper put you in a bad mood, there’s a good reason why. It seems the hemming and hawing is over… a recession seems neigh and likely. The stock market seems to agree.
Now, I’m no doom and gloom artist; nor am I some sort of economic prognosticator. But […]

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I know this is a bit off our topic, but this is too good not to pass along.
Tax season is coming up- er… here already. And anyone anytime could use some decent advice about financial and retirement planning. Need to re-organize your 401k? Or start one?
I got a great today only resource. Via GetRichSlowly, […]

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The second Marketwatch article is all about which industries won’t be hiring as much in 2008.
Again, the obvious subjects are mentioned up front; i.e.: anyone in any field related to the housing bubble. So the hardest industries to get hired in will be:

Real Estate
Mortgage Broker/Banking
Finance and Banking in general
Construction
Home materials retail and manufacturing
Even architects and […]

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It’s the end of the year, so the prognostications about the 2008 job market are beginning. For the first time since 2003, I have to begin the year with a pessimistic outlook.
Let’s face it, we’re going to be damned lucky if we avoid a recession next year. And just plain lucky if we avoid a […]

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