Gerry brings up an interesting point in my last posting, about flexible work being a key issue for today’s workforce: men need and desire flexibility as much as women.
According to the Tuck survey I referred to in the last post:
Men are very interested in career breaks but for different reasons than women. While women ranked parenthood
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The other day I encountered the famous Hallo Berlin cart on 54th Street with only one guy in line and blogged about it. Here’s a shot of a more normal state of affairs, taken today around 1:30.
To readers tiring of the superficial, heavily food-oriented nature of my recent posts: Sorry, I’ve been busy (and hungry).
Last night, I attended an event at Merrill Lynch hosted by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. It was called the Back in Business Roadshow, and the multi-city tour is meant to appeal to women and men who have stepped off the career treadmill and are looking to step back on.
The panelists painted a fairly rosy picture of all that …
Not really. She seems sweet and all, but how the heck could she win a national singing competition over a true talent like Melinda Doolittle? What is wrong with you, America? And I realize I’m preemptively calling the contest, though there’s still the outside chance that Blake–I don’t even know his whole name–could pull it out. Enough …
Two words: garbage plates.
Another in my continuing series of really low-quality cameraphone photos of book parties, this time from the hoedown for Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas Evolving at the Mercedes dealership on Park Avenue Monday night. I took the photo from out on the sidewalk. Inside were a bunch of people who make a whole lot more money than I do …
So this was my day so far today:
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Beauty swag haul in Rockefeller Center. I don’t write about beauty, or beauty products, nor would anyone besides my indiscriminately complimentary nephew Jack call me a beauty. And yet I was invited–as a workplace writer, somehow–to an event held in a swanky restaurant beside the …
With David Beckham’s hugely expensive arrival in Los Angeles coming ever closer, it might be worth revisiting just what he’s been doing back in Madrid. From Richard Williams’ blog at Guardian.co.uk:
Last January 13, two days after he announced that he would be moving to Los Angeles next season, Fabio Capello said the Englishman would
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From Bob Herbert’s column in today’s NYT (available to subscribers only):
A lot of New Yorkers are doing awfully well. There are 8 million residents of New York City, and roughly 700,000 are worth a million dollars or more. The average price of a Manhattan apartment is $1.3 million. The annual earnings of the average hedge fund manager
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Last week, Montgomery County, Md., joined New York and Philadelphia in banning partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants. Washington Post columnist/blogger Marc Fisher decried this development:
It’s fairly clear that trans fats are bad for you. And lots of food businesses are reacting to the widespread public opposition to trans fats by
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Did you know 85% of entry-level job candidates are poorly prepared for the job hunt? Figures: amazingly, many universities in this country still lack constructive focus on career prep. (But if you want to take a class on the social impact of porn, sign right up.)
So it’s no surprise that many addled grads turn to the bookstore for a …
