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Archive for January, 2010
Want to Decide on a Job? Consider the “World’s Coolest Jobs”
If I ever decide to give up my career in decision making (which I can’t imagine choosing to do), perhaps I could have a future as a water-slide tester or a fried food inventor. To find out more about these 11 dream jobs, you should decide to check out this list of the World’s Coolest Jobs, which I found on msnbc’s TODAY Technology & Money page. Do you think these jobs are too good to be true?
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Decide to Take Your Career “Off Autopilot”
I just read a terrific U.S. News & World Report career article by career coach and author Curt Rosengren: 4 Steps to Taking Your Career Off Autopilot. What I like about this article is that rather than decide to give vague answers and advice, the author has chosen to pose important questions that we should all decide to consider, no matter where we are in our careers or what field we work in. It’s always a good idea to take some time to check in with yourself and decide how satisfied you are with your career. If you are interested in taking Rosengren’s advice and making changes, you should check out U.S. News’s list of the 50 best careers for 2010.
Simonites Decide: Top Alternatives For Choosing a Sport
Should I be worried that my Simonites are not good team players? When it comes to deciding on a sport to play, more Simonites decide that they should take up swimming, tennis, or cycling than any other alternative. Sure, you can decide to play doubles in tennis, but should that really be called a “team” sport? I wonder if my community is full of independent-minded athletes, or if maybe after a certain age people decide that these individual sports make more sense for their lifestyles. What do you think?
New York Times Q&A With “Decision-Making Master” (No, Not Me)
Last week, the New York Times’ “Freakonomics” blog decided to feature an interesting decision-making Q&A with Ralph Keeney, a decision analyst at Duke University’s business school. Readers sent in questions to Keeney (about decision making processes, how people decide, advice on how to decide, and so on), whose responses discuss “how to avoid making the wrong decisions, how to figure out what you really want, and why neither psychologists nor economists have definitively figured out how to make good decisions”–just my cup of tea! You should all decide to check it out for some interesting advice and insight, as well as some speculation as to why Tiger Woods and David Letterman decided to commit those pesky little “indiscretions.”