Author: Michelle Goodman

Michelle is a full-time freelance journalist specializing in work and innovation: entrepreneurship, creativity, financing, technology, sustainability, balance, and office life. She is the award-winning author of two irreverent business books—The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and My So-Called Freelance Life—both published by Seal Press. She regularly contributes to BBC Capital and Entrepreneur magazine. Michelle also wrote a workplace column for ABC News for five years and a work-life balance blog and column for the Seattle Times for four. Other credits include the Washington Post, Salon, CNN.com, MSN, The Magazine, Seattle magazine, Vice, Bust, The Bark, and several anthologies.

Good Blue Collar Jobs in Demand

Ready for a career change but dread getting another desk job? Then how about trying your hand at, well, working with your hands? “There is a blue collar renaissance going on right now,” says Joe Lamacchia, author of “Blue Collar and Proud of It: The All-in-One-Resource for Finding Freedom, Financial Success, and...

Which Degree Can Make You $100K?

Want to get the most bang for your tuition buck? Although not all graduates wind up making top dollar or working in their field of study, some majors — mainly those steeped in math and science — are more likely to lead to a six-figure salary. Sure, these majors will involve more...

Best Jobs in the Future: Six Figure Income Jobs

Hoping to be in a six figure income job by the end of the decade? Wondering what the best jobs in the future are? Then you need to select your career path wisely because the field you embark on today can greatly affect how much you make 10 years down the line....

Entry-Level Jobs With Good Pay

Competition for entry-level work is stiff right now. Finding a high salary entry level job is harder than at any time in the last 70 years. But grabbing the first minimum-wage, dead-end gig that comes along won’t serve you well in the long run. After all, you don’t want to live in...

2010 Jobs with High Projected Job Growth

Thinking of embarking on a new career in 2010, but not sure where to begin? How about with a job that not only pays well but offers considerable stability or, perhaps, even job growth? After all, a handsome paycheck isn’t worth much if it’s in a field that’s expected to become the...

Best Part-Time Jobs for Full-Time Moms

You need to start bringing home a little extra bacon for your family, but you also need to be available when your kids wake from their nap or get home from school. Not to worry. You don’t have to sign up for the overnight night shift to around your kids’ schedule. Herewith,...

Back to Work? U.S. Jobs With No Experience Required

Even in a healthy economy, returning to the workforce after being a stay-at-home parent can feel like signing up for a marathon when you haven’t so much as stretched a hamstring in years. Yet a spouse’s layoff and mounting bills have prompted many at-home parents — the U.S. Census Bureau reports there...

10 Great Part-Time Jobs with Benefits

Contrary to popular belief, working a part-time job doesn’t mean you have to forego those almighty benefits. A number of part-time vocations come with subsidized health insurance coverage, paid vacation days, retirement matching, corporate discounts, and more. You just have to know where to look. Often, part-time employees must work at least...

Types of Web Careers

Forget looking for your next job in a traditional office. Armies of recovering cubicle dwellers are making an honest-to-goodness living in online careers-and we don’t mean by selling diet pills or kitchen accessories to unsuspecting friends and relatives. From online writing jobs and graphic design to software development and social media marketing...

12 Money-Making Certificates

Laid off and looking to flee the floundering industry that sent you packing? Not to worry: Minimum wage work is not your only option. Whether you’re in dire need of a new career, trying to earn more at your current gig or you’re returning to work after a prolonged hiatus at home...

Putting Meetings out of Their Misery

Last year Best Buy made headlines for its “results-oriented work environment” (aka ROWE), which is a fancy way of saying: “We don’t care when or where you work, as long you get the job done.” As part of this work/life initiative, Best Buy put the kibosh on unproductive meetings. First the company...

Dear Managers: Think Twice Before Scheduling Meetings

When Marie, a sales assistant, showed up for a routine meeting with a big-time retail client, she didn’t expect to find the guy drunk… with a bird cage containing a latex chicken hanging on the wall behind him. Nor did she expect him to spend the entire meeting on the phone, haggling...

Can This Job Be Saved? How to Know When It’s Time to Go

We’ve all been there. Sunday night rolls around and suddenly we’re covered with hives. Or we find ourselves frantically searching WebMD for some exotic new disease to call in sick with the next morning. Or we begin entertaining “kill the boss” fantasies that rival the pink-collar revenge scenes in the movie “Nine...

Benefits of Working Flex Time: Where to find it, how to get it

You can’t open the business section these days without seeing a story on companies that let employees work when and where they want. It’s good for morale, great for the bottom line, and with any luck, the wave of the future. All well and good for the country’s millions of flextime and...