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»

Marci Alboher sas joined the New York Times as an on-line columnist writing a regular column called "Shifting Careers" that will focus on the new face of career changes. »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»

When reaching middle age, it's natural to question your career path. »more»

Dr. Mary Furlong is an academic, entrepreneur marketer, and author. Most importantly she is an expert on the baby boomer demographic and "Turning Silver Into Gold" is her comprehensive and authoritative tome on how to reach and be received by baby boomers. »more»

Last week we discussed one of the most transformative forces in business today. Disintermediation is a force of change that every few centuries blows through society and the workplace with such impact that in a very short time, several decades, the world gets substantially reorganized. Some historical perspective will highlight this very clearly. »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»

Disintermediation is one of the most powerful forces affecting the world today. In this column I will explain and explore this force that is reshaping the workplace. To think about making a career change without a full understanding of this force would be folly. »more»