Penelope Trunk has just released the Brazen Careerist, her handbook for achieving career goals. Penelope has a lot of non-traditional career advice (such as "job hopping in your twenties is a great idea."). This is definitely not your parents' job handbook--probably because it is no longer your parents' world. »more»

The Wall Street Journal's Laura Landro writes about three people who left highly compensated jobs to run their own art galleries. »more»

By the time we reach the midpoint in our careers, we probably consider ourselves experts at differentiating between good and not-so-good bosses as we will likely have had our fill of the latter. Not so says columnist/author Penelope Trunk who brazenly states that there are no bad bosses, only whiny employees. »more»

"Midlife crisis" may be many things -- depression, a reassessment, dissatisfaction, or unease -- but a key contributor can be career issues.

But like so much about midlife, there is little hard data on what happens to midcareer adults. »more»

Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist, offers up "Five Situations When You Shouldn't Change Careers." See if you can match up the situation with an excerpt of her advice, then visit her site to see if you're right »more»

Being focused on your job does not make you a workaholic nor does putting in long hours. Nor, for that matter, does occasionally missing important activities in your life because you are working. »more»

Career Happiness/Satisfaction Interesting Fact of the Day:

When you hire a roofer, odds are 6-1 that the person who shows up to do the work is not a very happy person, but when you call a priest or the fire department odds are that you will get a very happy person.

And how we know so much about career happiness and satisfaction?

During the past four weeks I have taken a look at career change through the filter of history and through the filter of disintermediation, one of the most powerful forces affecting the marketplace today. In future columns I will suggest the other dominant forces or flows that are reshaping the world, what the work landscape might look like in the next ten years, and the changes that are already underway. This week, though, I thought it might be a nice break to go personal, and share my path of career change. While I have been given credibility as a future thinker, I want you, the reader, to know that I have gone down the path of career change. »more»

What would you do if you suddenly became a multimillionaire? Sleep in every day? Golf? Say goodbye to the work life forever? Or would you go back to work?

The LA Times looked at a variety of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who had become millionaires and found the surprising answer that many of them in fact did go back to work. Take the example of Mark Pincus who sold his company for $38 million in 1996. For a year he lived a life with almost no responsibilities but eventually tired of the lifestyle, saying: »more»

Somewhere along the way, we got the idea that to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference means we have to sacrifice personal wealth, profit and success. We associate work that makes a difference with the terms "non-profit", volunteerism and personal sacrifice. It creates a kind of starving artist mentality. I want to challenge that ‘either/or’” notion. »more»