My seven-year-old son started playing in our town’s youth basketball league this year. I’m one of his coaches. Now, as any truthful observer of this kind of squad will admit, playing is a loose term. As the kids do their best to pass (we have a three-pass minimum), shoot and defend, ther...

this is a live blog of the talk given by norm amundson from the department of educational and counselling psychology and special education at the university of british columbia at the career management association’s annual conference here in vancouver.  the topic is active engagement - the be...

Last Friday, I rushed from Rainytown to the Valley of the Beautiful Spokanes where my 17 year old was getting an emergency appendectomy. I got there a couple hours after and he was sitting up and gabbing in his room and everything came out dandy. That weekend plus the prior week all added up equalle...

Build a career instead. I am more than tired concerning all the TV hype about "finding a job" and "all the things you need to do," produced and reported by people who actually have jobs and are doing precisely what they want to do. While everyone else is playing Depression Economics, I also need to ...

We are pleased to add another writer, Sultana Fakhri, to this group Blog. She has written this post to more or less coincide with “Children’s Day”, celebrated on November 14th in India. Please welcome her warmly by commenting on her maiden post. - Priya Raju. `Who are you?’ s...

This post is to commend my friend, Poetivity, for her FIRST WEEK werkin' a new job. A.real.job. Forty hours. Poetivity hasn't worked many real 40 hour a week jobs in her life, like almost none. She's an artist. A self employed artist.  And she makes some decent money at it. But it doesn't pay t...