Soulsuck or Soulcraft: Another brick in the cubicle partition?

I quote Ron Livingston, in his iconic role as office cog-cum-construction-worker Peter Gibbons: “We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight [...]

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Should I stay or should I go?

When it comes to your current job, you’ll probably stay — at least until the recession is over. But what you really want to do is go. New numbers out of a Workplace Insights survey from Adecco, an international staffing company, show that when it comes to work, most of us are dreaming mightily of [...]

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The Zeitgeist: Undecided readers write in

Check what some of our readers have had to say this past week. To continue the conversations — or read the whole comments — click the links. On quarterlife: “…especially with all the recent layoffs, quarter-lifers like myself are stuck answering the age-old question: what should I do with my life? I have a full-time [...]

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suddenly, lost summer

But is that necessarily a bad thing? Not completely. In a piece in last week’s New York Times, Alex Williams explored what college kids and newly minted graduates might be doing this recessionary summer. The answer? For a great many of them, moving back home with mom and pop. He writes: The well-paying summer jobs [...]

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Recession’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose…

Not to be all Pollyanna, but is it possible that the current economic reality might offer an escape from the whole passion-v-paycheck debate Barbara addressed in yesterday’s post? Or that maybe, just maybe, when it looks like your choices are diminished, in a strange way, they start to multiply? I came across this piece yesterday, [...]

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the Zen of not-quite-perfect

The ultimate choice, right? Passion or paycheck. But are the two always mutually exclusive? Can one, eventually, enable the other? Is sub-par sometimes a means to an end? I came across this interesting post by a twentysomething web designer from Portland, Ore., who laments her life in a corporate cubicle, doing a job she kinda [...]

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