Etiquette Cubed: a cube dweller's guide to a more tolerable work place
I'm going on almost two years of working in a cube farm and over the past two years, I've developed a fairly comprehensive set of guidelines for things you should and should not do if you, too, have the misfortune of working mere feet from dozens of your closest colleagues, with nothing between you but a flimsy wall that you can see right over when you stand up. Considering that many 20-somethings will find themselves in a cubicle at some point, I think this information is worth sharing.Smells. Smells carry in a cube farm, so you owe it to your neighbors to keep the odors at a minimum. These smells can include:

There are no safety nets in blogging
Ina over at Ina Nutshell (hee!) posed the age old question: how much personal information should I reveal and how much should I discuss my job on my blog in an age where people are more and more routinely fired for blogging? This is something I've vented my frustrations about in the past.Generally speaking, I think it's silly that employers fire their empl

The fiancee has a job!
HOO-RAY!It's with the company he interned for a little over a year ago. He really liked the company then, and when he went back for his interview, he spoke with many people that he worked with before. Not that his superior intellect and social skills didn't have a lot to do with it, too. But it certainly helped that many people were familiar with the calibre of work he turns out and know that he's an all-around great guy. He's not as excited about the work he's going into right now because it will be moving away from the embedded engineering that he loves so much, but I think that Kellen, as he usually does, will make the most of it and end up loving it. I think he's

The recession is really still on?
Even knowing that we're going through a pretty massive recession, it's still hard to believe that a year later, things still haven't bounced back. I found a post from a friend from October of last year discussing the difficulties the recession has presented, particularly to young newly-graduated women. I did a double take at the "2008" date.Has it really been that long? Good grief. Almost my entire professional experience has been framed by a recession, by the resulting professional stagnation. I have watched as coworkers have been laid off, as an increasing number

In honor of the boyfriend's second job interview...
I'm sharing a fantastic article I came across from CareerRealism: 10 Things Recruiters Won't Tell You.A lot of these are things that you've probably heard about if you've ever taken a seminar on interviewing, visiting a career counselor, or, you know, read or heard anything about doing well in job interviews. What this recruiter drives home is how all of these little things which in better times wouldn't have gotten your resume immediately tossed are guaranteed deal breakers in today's saturated job market.Read it, and then begin to think about how you could improve your first im