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by Anne Fisher   Yes, people really do get paid to taste ice cream. Or play video games. Or fly a blimp. When it comes to low paying drudgery with a dismal future, newspaper reporter and lumberjack have been called the worst . On the other hand, some jobs seem more like play. Just for a lark, the folks at London-based shopping site Savoo scoured postings on U.S. job boards, help-wanted ads in American media, and other sources stateside to find the occupations that sound like the most fun. They came up with this ranking, listed in ascending order of average salary: Disneyland “face character” – $32,000 Job description: Dress up and perform as a famous Disney character Requirements: Strict rules regarding height and appearance, plus some acting ability. “Must be good with children.” Video game player – $50,000, plus newest game releases Job description: Assist other players to achieve higher scoring levels in games Requirements: Love for video games, plus som...

By Ray Houdtzagers There is little doubt that project management is a white-hot profession, with rapidly-growing jobs in this decade alone. According to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2013 Talent Gap Report , 15.7 million new jobs will be created worldwide between 2010 and 2020. In the US alone, the growth will be 12 percent, from 5.4 to 6.1 million new project management jobs over that same 10-year period. Interestingly enough, I have personally met very few project managers (PMs) with significant formal academic education in the discipline. Many graduate and business schools offer classes and programs, but a 2012 PMI study  revealed that in its sample of participating universities, the first undergraduate program in project management began just twenty years ago, in 1995.   This leads me to the conclusion that many of today’s PMs—like me—made that transition as a somewhat natural progression over their careers. They transitioned from a more ...

The nationality isn't the main point, but humanity, respectfulness and understanding humans are more important than nationality. The story which has started at Saudi Arabia airport is a shameful story. Two airport officers did sexual assault on 2 youth, and nobody cared about it in Saudi Arabia. It was against the national law, human law and it was shameful  As I know,  Rape in Saudi Arabia has been considerably investigated by various observers. In 1988, sexual offences stood at 2.19 rapes per 100,000 population. Under Sharia law, a law generally enforced by the country's government, punishment imposed by the court on the rapist may range from flogging to execution. However, there is no penal code in Saudi Arabia and there is no written law which   specifically   criminalizes rape or prescribes its punishment. If the rape victim first entered the rapist's company in violation of purdah, she also stands to be punished by the law's current holdings. In addition,...

by:  Eric Barker You make goals… but then you procrastinate. You write a to-do list… but then you don’t follow through. And this happens again and again and again. Seriously, what’s the problem? Why are we so good at thinking of what to do but so terrible at actually doing those things? The problem is you’re skipping an essential step. Here’s what it is… The Mistake Every Productivity System Makes Productivity systems rarely take emotions into account. And feelings are a fundamental and unavoidable part of why humans do what they do. We can’t ignore our emotions. Because of the way our brains are structured , when thought and feelings compete, feelings almost always win. And we can’t fight our feelings. Research shows this just makes them stronger . Via The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking : …when experimental subjects are told of an unhappy event, but then instructed to try not to feel sad about it, they end up feeling wors...

Everyone knows who the business analysts are in their organization, but not everyone knows what they actually do and what they are responsible for during software implementation projects. Generally speaking, most business analysts "own the requirements processes," where they work with key line-of-business executives and users on just what it is they want from a new application, says Carey Schwaber , a senior analyst of application development at Forrester Research. "If you believe that software projects succeed or fail based on the quality of the requirements," Schwaber says, "then you believe that software projects succeed or fail on the basis of business analysts, too." Beyond gathering requirements, however, the other important duties inherent to the business analyst role (besides being a good communicator) are still not well-known today. In fact, according to Schwaber and fellow Forrester analyst Rob Karel, not many people, includ...

by: Scott Berinato February 9, 2015   About a decade ago, a hacker said to me, flatly, “Assume every card in your wallet is compromised, and proceed accordingly.” He was right. Consumers have adapted to a steady thrum of data breach notifications, random credit card charges, and out-of-the-blue card replacements. A privacy-industrial complex has sprung up from this — technology, services, and policies all aimed at trying to protect data while allowing it to flow freely enough to keep the modern electronic bazaar thriving. A key strategy in this has been to “scrub” data, which means removing personally identifiable information (PII) so that even if someone did access it, they couldn’t connect it to an individual. So much for all that. In a paper published in Science last week , MIT scientist Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye shows that anonymous credit card data can be reverse engineered to identify individuals’ transactions, a finding which calls into quest...