Most People are Deeply Unhappy at Work According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction is at a record low and one out of three workers are hoping to find a new job in the year ahead. Many still find it hard to believe but money alone doesn’t lead to...

This is a guest post from John Chancellor and his Teach the Soul blog. Without a purpose, nothing should be done. Marcus Aurelius 121 – 180 My work involves helping people achieve their goals. I want to share an exercise I sometimes use with the people I coach: I...

Why are so many people holding more than one job these days (from CEOs to professional athletes to regular people)? Income — Perhaps the biggest benefit, of course, is that it can increase your income. Variety — Second jobs often don’t pay much, but they enable the worker to...

A strong workforce trend is the shift to holding more than just one job. And it’s not just people in lower income brackets who are juggling multiple jobs. CEOs and senior executives of large companies frequently also hold paid director positions with other companies, not to mention unpaid roles...

For most of human existence, pay has been tied directly to output. We consumed only what we hunted successfully, later we bartered the crops we harvested and livestock we raised, and still later we would swap the skills we were good at for lodging or meals we needed. Even...

For most of human existence, life may have been hard, but it was simple. We ate what we killed, we reaped what we sowed and later on in history, we sold what we made. Life was life. But then a funny thing happened—not coincidentally around the time of the...