Work

If you did a science fair project as a kid, chances are it was something like a potato-powered clock, or a baking soda volcano.  But a 14-year-old from Pittsburgh named Suvir Mirchandani might have actually done something useful.

I've had some changes to what I do at work here over the past year, and I've found that I've had to completely rehaul the way I do my work.  It got me thinking about how everybody else gets stuff done.

Nobody's perfect, but even the best of us is occasionally going to come up short at the office. But there’s a difference between the occasional missed meeting and a career full of bad work habits that remain unbroken. And that difference could cost you your job.

Work: that other four letter word that is sometimes spoken like an expletive by poor souls who must toil each day just to make ends meet. How we love to hate the idea of work, but I have never seen a person who was not gainfully employed that I thought was really happy.

So I came down with a little bit of a cold the other day. Nothing too bad, just the beginnings of a sore throat, stuffy nose and feeling sore and tired. I was able to knock it out pretty quick by taking a ton of that EmergenC stuff and getting a ridiculous amount of sleep. However, I was feeling pretty bad when I came to work Monday.

Working 9-5 may be the traditional American workday, but it’s nothing but a myth in some places.

"So you would want a webcam installed at your husbands work?" That was my response to a topic that came up over the weekend. One female chatting with her friends came up with the theory that men probably act completely different at work than they do at home.

Do you despise clocking in each day? You’re not alone.

With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, it should come as no surprise to find out that we spend a lot of time checking our work email when we’re not even in the office. But just how much do we do it?

We’re trying to help you get promoted and on the right track by finding great ways to get noticed at work, but there’s a flip side to this coin.