You have worked at various finance positions throughout your life and gathered wonderful experience to fulfill your dream of becoming a financial consultant. Starting out on your own after having work…

Is Glenn Beck an idiot? Personally, I happen to think that's a pretty easy question to answer. Yes, he is.

If you're not familiar with Glenn Beck (is that possible?), he's the Fox News …

Mashable has a nicely detailed look at what you can do to beef up your resume.

The piece is aimedf at college students with the idea that they can spend winter break attacking some of the issues in…

Mashable's Sharlyn Lauby had a piece a while back on how to maximize your potential on LinkedIn.

If you're not familiar with LinkedIn is a social networking site designed for professionals …

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BusinessWeek ran a piece recently that highlights some of the dangers of freelance work.

What is freelancing? It is the idea of offering your services as a way for businesses to ou…

Dan Schawbel (Personal Branding Blog) recently talked about ways to position yourself for the career you want.I prefer the term career over the term job. A job is a single occurrence, while a career i…

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Forbes had an article last week about "surprising" six-figure jobs, or at least jobs where it's possible to make $100,000 or more, even if not…

U.S. News & World Report has just packaged many of its best articles about work and finance, as well as its Alpha Consumer and The Inside Job blogs, into a nice "Guide to Being a Grown-Up&qu…

Interesting column by Charles Wheelan at yahoo finance this week about the phenomenon of women taking maternity leave at their jobs and then quitting the job once the maternity leave is over. They get…

I read J.D.'s story about having to fire an employee today and it reminded me of the time I got fired. I didn't get fired fired exactly, but sort of. The story's pretty pathetic, but I hav…