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Here's What It's Like To Walk Away From A Successful Startup You Founded
Just because you founded a startup doesn't mean that you'll get to stay at the helm of it forever. Nor should you always want to. We recently spoke with Al Campa who will forever be known as the...
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Disney World Employee Shares What It's Like To Man The Gates Of The Magic...
A Disney World employee took to Reddit to talk about his experience on the job at the Magic Kingdom. He says he works on Main Street USA, manning the main entrance turnstiles and doing "parade...
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Here Are 5 Ways To Make Your Boss Love You
Impressing your boss is key to getting promoted and making more money. And motivational speaker and career expert Alexandra Levit has a few easy tips for making it happen. She recommends you start...
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What To Do If You're Caught Daydreaming In A Meeting
Like children, dogs and nomads, minds tend to wander. And they often decide to wander at inopportune times – such as during that 4:30 meeting on the Friday before a long weekend. There you are in your...
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What Companies Need To Do To Stop Hurting Families
Everyone has an opinion on Ann-Marie Slaughter's controversial cover piece for The Atlantic, 'Why Women Can't Have It All.' But no matter where you stand, Slaughter has struck a nerve with the...
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Jeff Bezos Talks About His Old Job At McDonald's, Where He Had To Clean...
McJobs aren't very glamorous, and yet, many successful people got their start working the front lines at McDonald's. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of internet retail behemoth Amazon, is one of those...
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Here's The Best Way To Explain To People What You Do For A Living
When you’re a slasher, entrepreneur, freelance writer, or otherwise non-traditionally self-employed, your work day can be a conundrum to the people around you — especially if you work from home. It’s...
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Why Female Doctors Don't Make As Much As Men
Over the last quarter century, women have been earning college and professional degrees in record numbers. In 1976, women earned only 45 percent of bachelor's degrees in the United States; by 2006...
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In This World, A Software Engineer Gets Paid More Than The CEO (VMW, CSCO)
VMware's $1.26 billion acquisition of tiny startup Nicira was as much about grabbing talent as grabbing technology, Valley insiders say. VMware has been the target of much raiding because the timing...
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Why We Shouldn't Work More Than 40 Hours Per Week [INFOGRAPHIC]
There's been a lot of talk lately about how Americans are ridiculously overworked and that the extra hours actually harm productivity over the long run. No wonder a growing number of Americans hate...
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Atlanta Entrepreneurs Speak Up: Our City Is Great For Tech
We just wrote about an Atlanta-area entrepreneur who had moved to Silicon Valley in search of a developer to help him build his startup, a would-be "Pinterest killer." After that story ran, we heard...
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10 Tech Skills That Will Instantly Net You A $100,000+ Salary
If you have the right tech skills, you can command a great -- and maybe even a fantastic -- salary. But it's an ever-changing target. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not. We asked job site...
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These Big Companies Are Hiring A Bunch Of People Right Now
The U.S. unemployment rate has consistently been above 8 percent for almost four years now. But a few big brands are actually hiring in droves. Rosemary Feitelberg at Women's Wear Daily featured the...
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Wait, It's Not Okay To Have Sex With Your Employees?
The highly visible CEO of Restoration Hardware has apparently been ousted after an inquiry into a relationship he is having with a former employee. The CEO is divorced. And, according to the former...
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Good Bosses Are Almost Twice As Productive As Their Employees
Hiring the right people is essential to the success of any business, and promoting the right people may be even more important. A good boss is 1.75 times more productive than the people he or she...
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Strip Club Manager Answers All Of The Questions You Were Afraid To Ask
A man who has managed a strip club since 1998 discussed all facets of the business in a Q&A on jobstr. The 34-year-old, who identified himself as "A.J. from New Jersey," said he sometimes feel...
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Google Hiring Data Reveals Two Things Women Can Do To Get Hired And Promoted...
Google has launched an effort to make sure it hires and promotes enough women, reports the New York Times's Claire Cain Miller. Because its Google, the company's first step was to analyze data about...
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The 5 US Cities Where Lawyers Make The Most Money
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the nation's best jobs, and "attorney" came in at number 37 with lawyers typically reporting a high sense of job satisfaction. Lawyers have a median salary...
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BEYOND MARISSA MAYER: 25 Powerful Women Engineers In Tech
There's an awful lot of hand wringing in the Valley over how few women are becoming engineers, particularly software engineers. Less than 12 percent of computer science degrees earned in 2010-11 were...
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All Of These Countries Require You To Take A Vacation
Many countries legally require employees to take vacation. While the U.S. has no requirements, Austria requires 42 vacation days, according to this infographic by Louis Duncan. Other countries...
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