Outside of the defense industry, everywhere I’ve worked has had an unofficial uniform of sandals, shorts and a t-shirt. Bonus points for flip-flops.

Ultimately, driverless cars will create more jobs than are lost, just like with robotic manufacturing.

A small savings account setup to overdraft from is perfect for this. You can stash your buffer in it, and it doesn’t show up in the balance of your checking account, so you aren’t constantly having to mentally subtract that amount from your checking account balance.

If you have a larger garden, then watering cans aren’t feasible. Our heavy hitters are the 25 or so tomato plants which will each need around a gallon or so of water every couple days in the Texas heat. And that doesn’t include the rest of the garden.

I tried this for a while, and it didn’t work out. The collection part is easy. The USING part is hard. Unless you invest in a pump and a filter, there is not enough water pressure in just the barrel to push water out to your garden in a controlled manner. Plus, the outflow hose would get clogged often with the crap…

MSRP and cost of business are two different things. The MSRP’s are the same, but the difference in cost structure shows up in different ways.

Sure, but the higher cost of business are part of the reason why so many jobs go to Mexico and Canada.

Interesting, but it would be a lot more useful with finer-grade breakdowns that just generic “tech.” Most of these places are going to have a specific flavor of industry and disciplines that they support, and not all will be good places to consider once you start factoring those in.

I do this, but substitute “Martha Stewart” for “Alton Brown” or “Cooks Illustrated” in the search term.

So this is how Amazon is going to do its deliveries in the future. Good to know. :-)

Wow, thanks for that link. I’ve always thought it was lame to have to look in newspapers for estate sales.

That has been my experience as well. There are some great recruiters and staffing agencies I’ve worked with, on both the job-hunting and the hiring side.

YES!! Love that show! It just seems wrong that the hand tools are just as expensive as the power tools.

I’d love to try out woodworking with hand tools but whenever I’ve looked into it, it seem prohibitively expensive. By the time you finish paying for the different planes you’ll need, you could have outfitted a shop with the equivalent power tools.

In engineering, there are tons of jobs listed by headhunters who don’t provide the company name, which has been the accepted business practice for the two decades I’ve been in the industry. The legit headhunters get paid by the employer, so if you ever get on the phone with one that wants to sell you on something…

Its says on the job opening in LinkedIn who posted the opening. Usually its an HR person, and I’ve had good luck contacting them directly in the past.

I missed that nuance. Very interesting.

I always thought this was the way everyone used LinkedIn. Contacting the job poster directly has always been a good way to get straight to the first gatekeeper. For my corner of the tech industry, its always someone from HR who posted the job opening, but even then it is still better than just sending your resume into…

Maybe do a stock market game with them so they can see it in action? I can see getting lost in the formulas at that age.

Compounding interest. Basic investing in stocks, mutual funds and indexes.