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This Week’s Weird Jobs

Sometimes job posters try to play up the pleasantries of the jobs they’re advertising. This concealing quality helps…

The World of Remote Work: An Interview with oDesk CEO Gary Swart

Move over, Dilbert. You’ve been outsourced. In a single decade, the working world has been transformed from a…

Movie Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

1987’s Wall Street was an instant classic. Its even, flowing pace was peppered by clever dialogue, convincing characters,…

Happy National Coffee Day!

This picture forgot to include joy. Today is National Coffee Day, that annual day where you have a…

This Week’s Weird Jobs

Image: .A.A./Flickr If you have hideous feet, no acting skills, and a chronically dry mouth, you can’t do…

Mark Zuckerberg “Richer” Than Steve Jobs

Image: Jason McELweenie/Flickr According to Forbes’ latest list of the 400 richest people in America, Facebook founder Mark…

Vatican Bank Under Investigation for Money Laundering

Image: Vvillamon/Flickr Police are investigating Vatican Bank (a commonly-used name for Istituto per le Opere di Religione, or…

5 Jobs the Great Recession Made Obsolete

Laid off or lucky: That’s how most employees have felt during the last 2 years of recession. But…

NBER: Recession Ended in June 2009

What a recovery! In some rather hallucinatory Monday news, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that the…

This Week’s Weird Jobs

Image: alancleaver2000/Flickr Are you, by any chance, a female Native American horse massager? Are you a good driver…

The Student Loan Scheme

To supplement my post on the inflation of higher education, here’s a killer infographic by CollegeScholarships.org: Infographic by…

What’s Inside the Small Business Bill?

The Senate has passed the Small Business Jobs Act, a small business bill aimed at increasing lending. The…

You Know You Have Too Many Books When This Happens

It could be intentional, too, of course…