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Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

The success of your job-hunt dependson you__ith a little help from your friends. You must be in charge of it. You must plan it. You mustdirect it. You must know what works and what doesn__ work. Your job-hunt is by its very nature a__elf-directed search.

Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

Just because you can__ find them doesn__ mean they don__ exist. You__e got to change the way you__elooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

He who loves his job, will own it.