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What’s the one thing that will keep you at your job?
Pay?  Easy commute?  Advancement?
How about that popular work-life balance?  One recent study found that work-life balance was the number one factor in retaining employees.  That study, for some reason, blew me away.  Any time I’ve left a job it’s because of something like a lousy boss or more pay or increased opportunities.  It wasn’t work-life balance, despite the fact that I was desperately worn out and worked too much. 
Does that make me abnormal?  Hey – anything’s possible!
To be fair, once I hit my 40s, …read more

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I’m always a little bit leery about people who claim an easy fix to the issues people face in the workplace today just by suggesting folks need to have a better attitude.
Take me, for example. 
I started out as the most positive person in my earlier years at work, to the point where I annoyed others.  I decided that unlike my parents, I would LOVE my job and be happy, happy, happy no matter what.  The problem?  My employers didn’t seem to think this was a good enough reason to treat me well.
In fact, in my early years I got a …read more