Light Bulb Quest
United Parcel Service is Big Business. With $74 billion in revenues and $4-plus billion in profits, it currently ranks 43rd on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations. UPS is also Big Labor. One source places its workforce of 377,640 employees worldwide as the 9th largest U.S.-based private employer. (The company website lists its […]
Whenever someone learns that I appeared on Jeopardy!, they always ask me two things: ‘How did you do that?’ and ‘What’s Alex Trebek really like?’ I always reply: ‘I tried out!’ and ‘He’s just the same as the way he appears on the show.’ He’s just the same as the way he appears on the […]
Have you ever had a job where you felt like you were in over your head from Day One? That any minute you’d be publicly humiliated as the fraud you so obviously are? You’re convinced that sooner or later – probably sooner – someone else is bound to notice your incompetence and expose you to […]
As a mid-career professional, searching for employment can be a slog. It involves the same routine tasks day in and day out. It’s nowhere near as interesting or rewarding as anything I’ve ever done to actually earn a paycheck. It’s not physically strenuous but it is emotionally draining. It can also be dispiriting. Each time […]