“Video chat firing” scene from Up In The Air. Painful to watch.
A study conducted by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce found that although a college degree is a associated with a greater rate of employment, not all degrees confer the same benefit. Grads in degrees in nursing, engineering, health, science, mathematics, computer science are most likely to find jobs. In general, “people who make technology are still better off than people who use technology.”
Download the full report here.
2:55 P.M.: When Productivity Dies
Sounds about right.
At what time of day do you find it hardest to stay productive? A recent poll of 420 British office workers suggests 2:55 pm is the low-point.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow
Work-Related stress linked to higher cardiovascular risk
Work-related stress is linked to increased blood fat levels, which in turn increases cardiovascular risk, researchers in Spain say.
This May, Seth Godin swept the audience off their feet earlier this month as he spoke on the monthly theme, “Backwards,” about a few things that we have backwards in terms of the work we do versus the work we’d like to be doing. An excellent watch for anyone with goals, ambitions, hopes, or dreams and is wondering how to pursue them.
And once you’re done consuming that, check out the Q&A, which is just riddled with truth bombs that will leave you beyond inspired to take on the world.
The event was hosted by The New School as part of Parsons Festival 2013. Big high five goes out to Ben Hallman for filming and editing, and that tongue-in-cheek intro perfectly aligned with the theme.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and cancelling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks, as the priest passed by the man who had fallen among thieves, perhaps—reading the Bible. When we do that we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised athwart our path to show us that, not our way, but God’s way must be done.
Charlie Chaplin’s, Modern Times. The “Factory Work” scene.
The Way to Produce a Person | David Brooks | NYT
“Third, and most important, I would worry about turning yourself into a means rather than an end. If you go to Wall Street mostly to make money for charity, you may turn yourself into a machine for the redistribution of wealth. You may turn yourself into a fiscal policy.
But a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to know if they have done good. We want to know if they are good.”
Keep reading “The Way to Produce a Person,” David Brooks in NYT.
Knowledge Talib: Brief History on the Phrase "follow your passion"
I was recently reading this book and I came across this bit of information: The phrase “follow your passion” got popularized since the 1970’s, following the publication of a book called “What Color is Your Parachute?”. Evidence of this trend can be visualized with Google’s Ngram Viewer,…
Breast Feeding Killed My Focus on Work. I Don’t Miss It | Shoba Narayan | NYTimes
As a feminist who believes herself to be equal to any man, it is easy for me to take umbrage at [Paul Tudor] Jones’s remarks. As a mother who enjoyed having babies to bosom, it is difficult for me not to nod in agreement. When you are caught up with a baby — your baby — the world does fall away. Petty competitions do not make sense any more. Trading does seem like small change relative to the rich rewards of motherhood.
Keep reading “Breast Feeding Killed My Focus on Work. I Don’t Miss It” by Shoba Narayan at the Motherlode blog, NY Times.
The Office finale
Jim: “Everything thing I have, I owe to this job – this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job.”
Pam: “There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things; isn’t that kind of the point?”
Our national problem may be that we assume entrepreneurs are superheroes who can leap over macroeconomic constraints in a single bound, especially if liberated from the villainous clutches of government.
But entrepreneurs can be crippled by a shortfall of demand for the goods and services they offer. And like the rest of us, they need bread, or at least cake, to survive.
Laid off from the Sun-Times
Rob Hart was laid off from the Chicago Sun-Times as part of the papers much-maligned decision to get rid of its entire photo staff.
In his newfound unemployment, Hart has been documenting his life the only way he knows how: through photos. He started the Tumblr page Laid Off From the Sun-Times yesterday morning, and it’s already gone viral, receiving attention from others in the media and from people who relate to being unemployed. (One photo shows cold pizza on unemployment paperwork, a familiar sight to many.)
Keep reading…Gaby Dunn’s interview with Rob Hart.
Go to Rob Hart’s Tumblr blog, Laid Off From the Sun-Times.
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