I am 38 and started college when I was 16, so I am pretty sure I went to college earlier than the author. AP classes and exams where just as important back then. In order to get into top Universities, minimum requirements was 4.2 GPA with top SAT/SAT II/ACT exams. That he slid in with a low grades, says volumes about…

This advice is too real. Once you get a new job, the first thing you should do is update your resume with your new job and update it periodically, especially if your duties change or you do something particularly awesome. It's really hard to update your resume when you're stressed out because your job has gotten…

Absolutely do NOT scoff at the idea of a professional network.

It's that whole "work to live, don't live to work" thing. I feel like I've been burned so many times I am almost indifferent at this point. It's expected.

Gigantic truth bomb here, and one of the better work-related pieces I've ever seen on Lifehacker.

Yess a million times this.. I hate when people act like they ARE the company they work for. It's like chill the fuck out, you're just their servant slave.

I fixed it.

Except that little piece of film animation is a million times better than whatever this crap is going to be.

at some point you will find your time becomes more precious, that's when you'll hate that kind of drivel, or at least will avoid them like the plague.

And too bad they didn't predict $200+/month cable tv bills with (obviously) monopolistic control. Someone might have planned a better alternative.

The other thing to keep in mind about body-cams is how they'll be used against legitimate protestors in the future. In scenarios like the Occupy protests and the post-Eric Garner protests, a number of police officers walked around with cameras, video'ing the people in the protest. But at least you could see that they…

No, everyone would have expected that. Just not the Republican tax cuts that let them keep it all and hoard 90% of everything while the government runs on money borrowed from social security funds and China.

God, Edison was not only a thieving dick and a horrible task-master of a boss, but also a lousy recruiter.

35. Who was the Emperor of Mexico when Cortez landed?

I thought Edison's employment test was:

Successful applicants were then administered a second round of testing:

Say what you will about Wendy Williams, but she addressed this the other day on her show. She pointed out that it's highly suspect that mom has come out of the woodwork to parade around TV with her son . . . when mom left her son to be raised by a known drug addict for his entire life.

Are you trying to say that William Shakespeare and Jane Austen have essentially the same perspective? That no significant difference in perspective is gained by reading Jane Austen? I mean, Shakespeare had some cool female characters, and he clearly was ahead of his time in terms of understanding the frustrations…

Lumping all white male authors into one monolithic group is the peak of ignorance. The chasm between Truman Capote and J.D. Salinger is grand canyon sized, as is the gap between Georges Betaille and William Faulkner. Also pretending that privileged white women have significantly different views from white men is…

I get where they are going in that I generally gravitate to reading white male authors, and they tend to perpetually dominate the bestseller lists.