Tag Archives: paycheck

Looking for a Sugar Daddy

It feels like we’re going backward. Here’s Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, telling women to blaze a trail for women to take on leadership roles and, just this past month, I’ve had several female clients tell me that they are looking for a sugar daddy. These women are all successful and in challenging careers and, over the years, they have talked about the thrill they feel about being independent, making their own decisions, and not being accountable to anyone for …

Too Many Managers Spoil the Broth

The original saying is that too many cooks spoil the broth but the cultural definition is that too many people who are involved in managing an activity can ruin it. The dictionary says that this expression alludes to each of many cooks adding something to the soup, which finally tastes awful. This is a perfect example of government. There are so many layers of bureaucracy that nothing gets done, everyone plays the blame game, and corruption exists in every strata …

Teacher in the Doghouse Goes Viral

I just came across an article that was written several months ago about a student who was videotaped by another student yelling at his teacher for being apathetic and not being a good teacher. The student’s World History teacher wasn’t mentioned by name but in a passionate diatribe, the student shouted, “You want kids to come in your class, you want them to get excited for this, you’ve got to come in here and you got to make them excited.” …

Running Into the Boss Who Fired You

In a perfect world, when you ran into the boss who fired you, you would be gainfully employed in a much better job. You would look great and you would be in an executive position that was higher in rank than your ex-boss. You would be making a ton more money than when you worked for him and your paycheck would be higher than his. When it happened to me, it didn’t work out quite that way. In fact, none …

Is Quitting Your Job Your Best Option?

I have been hearing a lot about people who are quitting their jobs before finding other employment and I think that’s just plain crazy. Everyone knows that it’s much more difficult to find a job when you are unemployed, yet that’s what people are doing despite knowing the odds. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “People are voluntarily quitting their jobs at the highest rate since the pre-recession era. . . ” and “2.16 million people quit their jobs …

Who’s Minding the Children?

In years gone by, most women took on the role of raising the children and running the home. Those who worked, were often expected to juggle household chores, children, and work, with very little support from their husbands. As the years progressed and women started to dominate the workforce, the traditional roles of men and women started to change. More and more we would hear about women abandoning their husbands and children. We would hear about wives who became the …

Our Higher Standard of Living

I remember getting paychecks where I earned sixty-five cents an hour as a part-time employee and getting forty-five dollars a week as a full-time employee. I also remember when one salary per household was enough to live on. My father used to tell us stories about how in his day, a bag of groceries cost twenty-five cents and it fed a family of four. Even when I was growing up, a bag of groceries couldn’t feed a family of four …

Together Alone

Many years ago, I heard an interview with actress, Cloris Leachman, who was asked how she had stayed married so long. She said that the secret of their success is that they live in separate houses. She made it sound like a romantic thing to do; when they wanted to see each other it was like going out on a date. They appreciated each other more and it kept their love alive. In those days, that was considered a radical …

The Risk Takers

From the beginning of the downturn economy until now, I have seen a steady pattern of people looking for work and too few jobs to meet the needs of the unemployed. For every job listed there are hundreds of applicants. There are more people who have stopped looking for work than at any time in my memory. So, what does this mean? Do people live on unemployment checks until they stop coming and then switch over to welfare checks? This …