artickles
Artickles is ticklemybrain's advice and resource area where our writers address topics and issues affecting professionals today. In the name of simplicity, our posts are categorized by their self explanatory titles: find your job, love your job and leave your job. Marvel in our step by step advice on anything and everything related to the working world.
dream jobs and bad dreams
illuminative post by Stephanie Nehme on 02 August 2012
So many of us search for that dream job and instead find ourselves in a bad dream, having to get out of bed every morning to start another day of misery. It happens to the best of us. At some point in our professional careers we have all had doubts about our place at work. We've pondered quitting our jobs, leaving a note to loved ones, buying a one way ticket to the closet tropical paradise and living out the rest of our days in a swimsuit. Leaving a job for a fresh start is not an option for many ...
look back
on judgment day
illuminative post by Stephanie Nehme on 04 July 2012
You graduated from university and sighed with relief -- you would never be graded again. How is it that you were not warned of this elusive yearly meeting where you are motioned into a room and told why you are or are not the shining beacon among your peers. The culmination of your yearly accomplishments in a company or lack thereof make up the backbone of your yearly performance review. ...
pick me, choose me, hire me
illuminative post by Stephanie Nehme on 24 February 2012
You step into the interview room, looking sophisticated and feeling good. Your interviewer says, “Tell me about yourself,” French for “Give me one good reason I should risk losing a game of Minesweeper in order to give you my full attention.” This question is among the chart topping ones you can most certainly expect in an interview. Yet even though we are aware of what is to come on ...
cool, calm and collected
illuminative post by Lara Atallah on 06 February 2012
It doesn't matter what we do for a living. Whether we are an employee who answers back to a whole line of superiors, a manager running an entire show or an entrepreneur preparing a website for launching - there always comes a time where we begin to feel overwhelmed by the mounting pressure, the pressing deadlines and the unbearable clients. In times like these, when it all becomes just too ...
a nightmare on wall street ~ part two
illuminative post by the ticklemybrain team on 15 November 2011
A downward spiral in stock markets witnessed around the world and a decline in global consumer wealth estimated in the trillions; the financial crisis definitely took its toll. ticklemybrain's previous artickle explained how deregulation led to the financial sector's rise in power and allowed predatory lending to reach its peak. Following this, it somehow got a little more corrupt and little more complicated:11. borrow to buy: Lenders were enticing borrowers to ...
a nightmare on wall street ~ part one
illuminative post by the ticklemybrain team on 15 November 2011
It’s about time we all knew who the bad guys were. In September of 2008, the bankruptcy of the US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the collapse of the largest insurance company on earth, American International Group (AIG), triggered a global economic recession that damaged financial institutions internationally, cost the world tens of trillions of dollars and left 30 million people unemployed. This larger than life conspiracy was no accident and is rooted ...
before you sign on the dotted line
illuminative post by Tara Nehme on 22 October 2011
That elusive condition referred to as happiness; a state of existence where you’re actually paid what you’re worth and no longer puzzled as to whether your credit card is a friend or foe. Every job offer, even at the entry level, is an opportunity to negotiate the most important number in your working life: your salary. Money isn’t everything, but for those of us struggling to establish our career paths, ...
promotion potions
illuminative post by the ticklemybrain team on 28 September 2011
Your boss informs you that a promotion just won’t be happening this year. As you shrug your shoulders and walk away, you may be inclined to blame the recession for your woes. Well, with some companies rising from the dead to pursue growth, you might have to shift the blame to yourself: your disheveled look, consistently late strolls into the office, or overbearing attitude. Easier said than done, but professionals ...
good bye and good luck
illuminative post by Tara Nehme on 15 September 2011
You’ve been told that any job is a good job in this downward spiraling economy. Your relentless ambition and search for greatness, however, have given you the strength to quit your job. Unlike when you were first employed, a time when you were full of hope and novel ideas, quitting time arrives when you are exhausted and ready to snap. There is a way, despite those unshakeable dreams where your ...
