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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  graduates took in-house jobs in business. Those jobs are traditionally considered less prestigious and demanding than associate positions at large law firms. The percentage of older graduates going in-house is twice the rate of their younger classmates. The magazine cites several reasons why large law firms don't hire older law school

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• Why Going Back To Law School May Be A Bad Idea

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Lifelong Education, Middle Age, Feature

  graduates took in-house jobs in business. Those jobs are traditionally considered less prestigious and demanding than associate positions at large law firms. The percentage of older graduates going in-house is twice the rate of their younger classmates. The magazine cites several reasons why large law firms don't hire older law school

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• Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Place or No Place?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  when making a midlife career change. In the first three, which can be found by clicking on the column titles below, we looked at the Flow to Global, the Flow to Individual and Disintermediation. This column looks at the choice between Place or No Place. Until the last quarter century, one pretty much worked where one lived. In the

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• Marci Alboher's "One Person Multiple Careers"

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Job Change, Work Life Balance, Book Review Tip

  I began to accept my odd career path and more recently to savor it. This long-over due epiphany is the gist of Marci Alboher's book "One Person Multiple Careers". In the book, Alboher shows that switching industries when you find something interesting to pursue is a career strategy that should be embraced not avoided. When it comes to

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• Career Switchers Skew Young

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Briefly Noted

  "very likely" they'll change careers, and only 37% expect to stay with their current employer. 61% of almost 1,300 workers surveyed have already switched careers at least once. Those expecting to change careers in the future tend to be younger, working part-time, or earning less than $30k / year. --- The survey, prepared for Labor Day 2007,

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• Career Switchers Skew Young

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career Change, Job Change, Briefly Noted

  "very likely" they'll change careers, and only 37% expect to stay with their current employer. 61% of almost 1,300 workers surveyed have already switched careers at least once. Those expecting to change careers in the future tend to be younger, working part-time, or earning less than $30k / year. --- The survey, prepared for Labor Day 2007, is

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• Joe falls into a midlife career change; the importance of passion in your career

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Career Satisfaction, Briefly Noted

  of a midlife career change? Read Joe's story. Joe's background was in technology and worked for a variety of large and small tech companies in the Los Angeles area. But he had always loved cooking so after a move to the Santa Barbara area he decided to try a midlife career change. It worked out for him but not in the manner he expected.

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• Trends to Consider when making a Midlife Career Change: Friction versus Frictionless

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Change, Job Change, Feature

  be satisfied with a friction career. If you create images, write, or consult, then perhaps frictionless is a better way to go. There are some entirely new careers that are purely frictionless -- such as blogging. No friction there. On the other hand there are professions that, as the world has gone from analog to digital, remain steadfastly

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• Who owes the IRS millions? Uncle Sam

  Published: September 1, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Business, Irs, State Local, Taxes, Work Job Career

  That's right. A substantial number of federal agencies, along with their state government cousins, have not been sending in the payroll taxes they collected from their employees. As of December 2006, federal government entities owed approximately $45 million in delinquent employment taxes, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax

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• Using Home Equity to Reinvent Yourself

  Published: September 2, 2007, 12:47 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Money, Baby Boomers, Career Change, Retirement, Briefly Noted

  "I never thought my career would end . . . I was wrong," said Werman, who walked away from his job as an independent music producer, explaining that the business had changed and that he no longer related to it. At that point more than five years ago, Werman, 62, and his wife Suky, 61, decided to leave their home of more than two decades

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• How not to use PowerPoint

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:22 pm

  Tags: Humor, Work Job Career

  If you plan to work this weekend on a PowerPower presentation, stand-up comic Don McMillan has some important tips for you. McMillan, who bills himself as a corporate comedian (hmmm, I thought that was the CEO's unofficial title), knows of what he speaks. Before hitting the comedy circuit, McMillan spent 10 years as an engineer at IBM,

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• Burnt Out at Work? You're "Middlescent"

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Career, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  "middlescence" hurting your career? Or your company? And what is it anyway? Last things first. "Middlescence" is the name created by "age wave" thinker Ken Dychtwald, consultant Tamara Erickson, and consultant Robert Morison to describe the bored, unmotivated 35 to 54 year olds staffing the middle tiers of many companies. To some degree

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• Want To Be Happy At Work? Find A Friend.

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Relationships, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  work, it may not be the mid-career blues. Polling data says you just may need a friend. In "Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without," Tom Rath uses Gallup research to establish the connection between friends and happiness. The money finding: "the quality of the friendships in your life are the best predictors of daily

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• Want To Be Happy At Work? Find A Friend.

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:12 pm

  Tags: Job Career, Relationships, Career Satisfaction, Happiness, Briefly Noted

  work, it may not be the mid-career blues. Polling data says you just may need a friend. In "Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without," Tom Rath uses Gallup research to establish the connection between friends and happiness. The money finding: "the quality of the friendships in your life are the best predictors of daily

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• Final tax-filing deadline fast approaching

  Published: September 24, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Filing, Taxes, Work Job Career

  I saw that bad IRS television want-ad again. Yes, I was up watching late-night cable programming; how else am I going to get my X-Files fix? Anyway, you remember the ad. I blogged about it back in the fall. It's the IRS' pitch for seasonal employees. It's reappearance can only mean one thing. It's tax-filing season again. Back in

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