Career & Employment

Career Advice: If You Fake It, You Will Probably Not Make It

Here’s some straight up career advice. If you fake it, you probably won’t make it. There’s been a huge trend towards joining startups and fast growing tech companies ever since Wall Street blew up between 2008-2010. The top companies to work for no longer are dominated by the Goldmans, Mckinseys, and Bains of the world. […]

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How To Build A Stronger Brand For Your Business, Blog, Or Career

Build your brand and eat like a king forever. Ignore your brand and starve like a mendicant waiting for scraps. This post is about how to build a stronger brand for your business, your blog, your podcast, or your career. A brand cannot be developed over night. It must be carefully nurtured. Along the way, your brand

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Can I Collect Unemployment Insurance If I Have Passive Income?

Are you wondering whether you can collect unemployment insurance if you have passive income? The quick answer is YES. Collecting unemployment insurance (unemployment benefits) is completely separate from how much you make in passive investment income. By definition, passive income is not earned income. It’s income generated by existing investments. The government isn’t going to

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Should I Go To Grad School? Get Rich Or Die Trying!

You’ve got your undergraduate degree and now you’re debating if you should go to graduate school. I’ve been in your shoes. I too wondered should I go to grad school? It’s a big commitment. Tuition can get quite expensive, especially if you quit working full-time to go to graduate school. However, earning a graduate degree

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How To Negotiate A Severance As A High-Performing Employee

Since negotiating my own severance in 2012 at the age of 34, I’ve consulted with several dozen individuals about how to best negotiate a severance as well. In addition, thousands of people have read my bestselling ebook, How To Engineer Your Layoff, and negotiated their own severances as well. This article will talk about how

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Love or Career: Which Is More Important?

How do you choose between love or career? Both could last a lifetime, but perhaps not simultaneously. Yet some lucky people find and manage both beautifully. Which is more important in the long run? Let’s study an example of one woman’s struggle deciding between love or career. Her name has been changed for privacy. Sacrificing

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How Long Will The Average Person Take To Earn $1 Million Around The World?

The Economist put out an interesting chart highlighting how long it takes the median household income to earn one million dollars before tax. Have a look. Given the median US household income is roughly $68,000 in 2021, it will take roughly 14.7 years for the typical household to earn $1 million gross. That’s pretty good

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