Maybe you enjoy working the long hours. Yes, staying late to work on a deadline project or to finish the twenty things on your task list probably makes you feel a bit nobler than your cubicle-mate (who jets out the door as soon as that wall clock strikes 5 p.m.). There’s (...)

Tech Crunch recently posted a few controversial articles in reference to Jason Calcanis’s post about the necessity of hiring workaholics in a start-up. Mike Arrington said, “You should hire people who work 24 hours a day because there is nothing else they’d rather do. If you’ve (...)

Things are starting to get interesting here at the Brazen Careerist office (my living room). We’re pitching the company to investors nearly every other day; we’re days away from launching the site, and we’re doing consulting to help with cash flow. I’ve never been this busy in my life, and I’m (...)

Whether its athletes, musicians or high powered executives, from the outside it seems that the most successful people appear to have an inhuman ability to stay self motivated. Douglas Walker and Steven Sorkin wrote a great book called “A-Ha! Performance, Building and Managing a Self-Motivated Workforce.” The authors claim (...)

Whenever I think about networking, the first thing that comes to mind is reaching out to the big people who can help shape my life in big ways. It’s probably the way most people think about networking. Which makes sense, the bigger picture usually comes first. (...)