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As layoffs across the country rattle Americans’ sense of job security, some are taking it as incentive to go after their dream careers.
By Linda Hughes Staff Writer LINDA HUGHES Nursing students watch as educator Neil Foltz prepares a needle for an injection. From left, Magdala Thermidor, Caroline Fewing (seated) and Kelly Finn are students at Renton Technical College. When ironworker Neil...
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist Q: I've been a project manager running million-dollar software projects for 15 years. However, I'm sick of the stress, never-ending deadlines and frantic pace of technology. I'm 41, and I can't keep this up...
Career-switchers make up about one-third of the ranks of new teachers, and that number has jumped in the past decade. As the recession deepens, more people are deciding to join the pedagogical ranks.
After he lost his job last July as a commercial printer in New Haven, Conn., Jack Foley thought he might like to become a bicycle mechanic.
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist Q: I am in my 40s, and I have 10-plus years of employment with the federal government and a family. Because of this, I need to stay with the federal government. I want to...
By OMAR L. GALLAGE Austin American-Statesman AUSTIN, Texas — It's not often that someone's job, as they explain it to you, is one you never knew existed. But Jessica O'Connell is used to explaining her latest gig to family...
surveys - Take Our Poll Q: Your company has downsized. You departed with a generous severance package. Coupled with your savings, that will give you a cushion of at least six months of living expenses. What should you do...
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist Q:You suggest that a person can find a job just as well as a headhunter can. Maybe, but I think a headhunter can save you a lot of time and trouble. So what are...
polls - Take Our Poll Q: You found the job of your dreams. Trouble is, the company has three final candidates and is about to make a hiring decision. This late in the game, your odds of getting an...
By Marcia Heroux Pounds South Florida Sun-Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — "What if today was your last day to dance? What would you do?" asks the director interviewing dancers in the Broadway show "A Chorus Line." More workers today...
By Daneen Skube / Syndicated Columnist Q: My job pays well, and I'm grateful in this economy to have a job, but I feel I'm missing out on my ideal calling. In my daydreams I imagine changing the world,...
By Robert Rodriguez McClatchy Newspapers TOMAS OVALLE / FRESNO BEE Greg McKinney, left, and Matt Dearing are opening Momentum Cycling, a high-end bike shop in Fresno, Calif. It features personal bike fittings, Time carbon bikes, a concierge bicycle-repair service...
By Nick Corcodilos Syndicated columnist Q: Nine months ago I accepted a job that required a move from another state. I signed an agreement saying that if I were to leave before one year is up, I would reimburse...
By Daneen Skube, syndicated Columnist Newhouse News Service--> Q. I have an opportunity to take a job where the company is going against the grain of what my industry does. It's a risk, but this company is doing the...
The mousy pencil-pusher image is no more. Accountants speak the language of business, and they are much in demand. Students are flocking to enroll in programs.
With gas prices and joblessness on the rise, more people are looking seriously at working from home. Also multiplying are the online scam artists who seek to profit from this trend.
Every day, Joey goes to work at Softchoice. He's been there a year. His officemates describe him as fairly calm, though he gets riled when there's a lot going on.
Freud asked only half the question. It's not just "What do women want? " No, it's broader than that. "What does everyone want? " is more to...
Krista Means opened a children's-clothing boutique because she couldn't find a place to buy a cute baby gift in West Seattle. Carol Schiller started Baby Chaleco because she couldn't find a bib that would keep her baby boy dry. Jackie Friedman Mighdoll created Sponge School because she wanted to expose her infant son to foreign languages. And Kat Stremlau opened Tot Spot Cafe in Woodinville because she had no fun place to take her baby during the winter.
After working in gyms for 26 years, Gina Berta opened her own personal-fitness studio, one that resembled a spa more than a weight room...
For many workers, the desire or the need to change jobs is commonplace. Whether brought about by downsizing or a growing dissatisfaction with the trajectory of their careers or industries, many people have made a job switch or want to.
Daydreams are one thing. It's a piece of cake to make a living baking petits fours for weddings when it's just a white-aproned, sugar-rimmed fantasy. Reality means studying essential topics like business taxes, the merits of bags vs. boxes and which tents work best at farmers markets.
So you want to make music, act, produce films, design fashion, dance or write movies? No sweat. That is, if you tweak your thinking a bit. That includes eliminating the term "starving artist" from your vocabulary. For one thing, if you think that's what you're getting into when you pursue a creative career, well, that's what you'll get.
Private-sector and government workers often like the idea of putting their skills to use for the greater good of society but really don't understand the world of nonprofits.
Kelly Cline's photographs pop up all over the place — in grocery stores, on Web sites, even splashed on the wall of a supermarket in Serbia.
Want to leave the cubicle life behind, but not really sure how to do it? Michelle Goodman, former "wage slave" turned successful Seattle-based...
When her 14-year career with Ford folded during downsizing late last year, Susan Hamilton figured she had three options: "I could be angry at Ford; throw myself a pity party; or take this as an opportunity that most people don't get — a chance to start something new," Hamilton says.
It's just before 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, and Erik Jensen has been working for hours, already on his second day of vacation from his graphic-design job.
Miserable at work? Take a number. Just half of all Americans are happy with their jobs, according to a significant study on work-force trends last year.
During the day, they work such jobs as forklift operator, part-time cashier, drum instructor and running a recording studio. At night and on weekends, they become Rumbeggae, a popular four-piece Mexican band that moved to the Seattle area from Veracruz a few years ago.
Gary Watts wants to work as a fire dancer. He has the qualifications: rhythmic skill, a few years' experience, a burning desire (ha!) — and a 6-foot-long staff with flames shooting from each end. Try selling that at a job fair.
Erin Anderson is living just above King County's poverty level while working 40 hours a It's not the ideal financial situation for a recent college graduate, but Anderson is less concerned about money and more concerned about contributing her time to an organization she is passionate about.
When I met Sarah, her very first question was "Do you think anyone would hire me? I've never worked a day in my life." Sarah had never been paid, but she was quite accomplished. She had organized major fundraisers, special events and large three-day conferences.
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