Wanted: Real, CREATIVE ways to cut commute costs. NOW.

I saw an email from Yahoo’s Hot Jobs career center just now and clicked hoping for some great advice on cutting my commute costs.
Well, lets just say what I read was, um, more of the same:

Take the bus
Carpool
Ride your bike
Telecommute

With oil predicted to hit $150/barrell in a month, and prices at the pump currently over [...]

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Women Who Negotiate Salaries are ‘Less Nice’?

MSNBC’s Shankar Vedantam notes in an article published today that research shows men are more aggressive than women in asking for a raise, which some may say is common-sense. However, some other very interesting things come out of the article, and, from the perspective of someone who is tasked with making hiring and firing [...]

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Bozofication Alive and Well: Utah Companies Will Pay for Stupidity

UPDATE: Please leave comments about BOZO things you have experienced at your or other companies! Anonymous submissions OK
I hate to say it, but I am seeing some of the most foolish and downright stupid things coming from Utah companies these days. These things may not be approaching the Yee-Haw ‘Bozofication’ problems that Guy [...]

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FYI: Your Compensation Model Sucks

Nobody questions that most businesses exist to serve the business owners, and to generate profits. Hopefully, they’ll do some great stuff for their customers and communities along the way. But, it’s my loud-mouthed opinion that most companies do a really lousy job of really compensating their key employees, and simultaneously “helping” poor-performers move [...]

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Happiness Can Make You Rich?

Listening to the Power of Full Engagement this morning, I jotted down the following concerning developing a deep sense of purpose, and deriving happiness from it.

“Income… doesn’t noticeably influence satisfaction with marriage, family, friendship or ourselves, all of which do predict a sense of well-being.
In turn, happiness has been clearly associates with higher productivity.
In short, [...]

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Utah wage growth outpaces the nation

Salt Lake Tribune: Average weekly wages in Utah increased faster in the first quarter of 2006 than elsewhere in the nation, underscoring the state’s economic health and shedding light on its unique population structure.

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Compare Salaries By Location

I am still jiving over Indeed’s new tool for Salary Search.
I was just mashing up some results when I realized the tool nicely allows comparison of salary among localities, or globally (as far as Indeed’s system is concerned, anyway).
I started comparing my local market (Utah) to the Indeed global market, not suprized to find us [...]

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Salary Comparison Tool

Ever since I heard about Indeed, I have been a fan. Aggregated jobs search results in one place–alerts by email or RSS/XML.
Back in April, I bumped into their Job Trends tool and I analyzed six hot job categories to see their frequency in the indeed job-posting world:

Engineer
Customer Service
Sales
Receptionist
part time
Human Resources

Now, Indeed has launched a Salary [...]

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