Soaring education, housing and health care costs in recent years have made simply staying afloat in a large metropolis next to impossible without a huge salary and benefits package. These rising costs are causing the well educated to “sell their souls" to law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms (...)

The lifelong company man no longer exists. Working 30 years for a gold watch at retirement is dead. But we didn’t kill it, the corporations did. Defined benefit pensions are a thing of the past, employees can be laid off because of a less than average quarter (...)

Recruiting Gen-Y has been a hot, I mean a HOT, subject these days. (If you are an HR manager and you haven’t read up on the best way to recruit college grads, then I suggest you get the new book, “Recruit or Die" which summarizes the approaches that have (...)

It is news when the Dow drops 311 points because it strikes a deep gong in the hearts of older guys tending their retirement accounts…all over the country, the fiftyish and sixtyish imagine our lives turning into a black-and-white documentary in which nattily-dressed men stand in line at a soup (...)

As I stood, squished like a pig in a pen, on the train to work this morning, beads of sweat dripping off of my 6 foot 4 inch frame onto the poor tiny woman standing below me, I thought to myself, “What’s up with sacrificing comfort, and more than likely, (...)