Kids pretend to be them; every other television show is about them. They are overworked and underappreciated; still, more people than ever are applying to become law enforcement officers. Getting in isn’t easy. Besides requiring rigorous mental and physical training, law enforcement has one of the lowest turnover rates of any career. But law enforcement [...]

It’s all about knowledge management. Imagine the typical research job and tell me what you see: A room full of gene-splicing grad students in white lab coats? A towering rack of glass beakers? A bank of computer screens beckoning with blinking cursors? Nowadays, such notions are changing. The fastest growing research area is knowledge management–finding [...]

Consider a new range of possibilities and rewards. Time to escape from the tough-as-nails, money-mad, rat race? Maybe the kindly, civic-minded non-profit world is for you. Maybe–but realize that not all for-profit businesses are mean-spirited, nor are all non-profits sweet and cuddly. Important differences exist between the two job worlds, and the range of organizations [...]

Today’s graphic artist needs to be extremely diversified to survive. “Today’s graphic artist can’t be a singular-focus individual,” says Dominic Crain, an artist with Technologies International Enterprises, in Orlando, FL. Crain has been in the field for several decades and done it all. In some ways, he can be called a true pioneer. He worked [...]

Who cares if you have impractical knowledge? If you are concerned that the time and money you spent pursuing a degree in “Colonialism and the 19th-Century Novel” or “Psycholinguistics” qualifies you for little beyond a teaching career, you can officially relax. Because of information technology and the tight economy, holders of marginal (some say ‘useless’) [...]

Flight attendants often complain they get little respect in the air. Now some furloughed flight attendants are finding little respect on the ground, too. Thousands of airline workers, laid off in the post-terrorism travel plunge, are having a difficult time finding work. Most of the blame falls on the weak economy and trepidation among prospective [...]

Two experts share their solo success tips. Before starting his own public relations company, Dmitri Vietze managed publicity for an independent record distributor. He saw it as a stepping stone toward his current career: independent publicist for world music clients. Timing played a critical role. “My wife and I had recently had a baby,” Vietze [...]

Helpful hints for out-of-workers everywhere. Now that you’re unemployed, it stings to remember why they tell you to store three to six months’ salary in a savings account for a rainy day. And now it’s pouring. But how many working people can afford to save anything, much less a half-year’s pay? “The concept of having [...]

Buoyed by the success of U.S. military strategies and systems used during the Iraqi conflict, the Pentagon is even more intent on pursuing the next generation of weapon and homeland-security-defense systems. Many, such as those that allow remote and secure communications systems to collect, interpret and send relevant information to proper channels, require advanced communications [...]

ABOARD A NAVY C-130 OVER AFGHANISTAN — For pilot Wilbur Hudson, the Navy isn’t just an adventure. It’s a job. The lieutenant commander needed one pretty badly. In early November, he was sitting in the first officer’s seat of a TWA MD-80 passenger jet, flying domestic routes out of St. Louis. But the airline, swept [...]