Archive: March 2006
My First Job: Dean Allen, CEO, McKinstry Co.
Current position: CEO, McKinstry Co., a locally owned, 45-year-old mechanical and electrical contractor with about 1,000 employees in the Pacific Northwest. McKinstry was co-founded by his father, George L. Allen.
What This Job Pays: urban and regional planners
The average pay for urban and regional planners in the Seattle area is $54,200 a year, with most making from about $40,000 to $62,400 a year.
My First Job: Dr. Dawn Hunter, clinical director and owner
Current position: Clinical director and owner of Medifit Health Clinic in Seattle, providing chiropractic kinesiology, massage therapy and personal body retraining and conditioning.
Smashing career-changing myths
Miserable at work? Take a number. Just half of all Americans are happy with their jobs, according to a significant study on work-force trends last year.
How to succeed at a business lunch
Think you're ready for that big lunch interview? Then go on with your bad self. Just don't stick your knife in the communal mustard jar, slather your bread and then lick both sides of the knife before putting it back in.
My First Job: Karen Jones, managing principal
Current position: Managing principal at Riddell Williams, representing businesses in labor and employment matters.
The kids in the middle
YouthForce's small downtown Seattle office is about the last place you'd expect to find Donald Trump. Sure enough, though, there the billionaire business mogul stands, perched atop a ledge and surrounded by electric hues of paint that would make Martha Stewart cower behind a peck of pressed pansies.
What This Job Pays: surveyor
Surveyors in the Seattle area make an average of $52,400 a year, with most making from about $45,000 to $66,000.
Lying down on the job not a vertical move
David G. Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic Monthly, recently named James Bennet, 39, to be the new editor of the august magazine. Bradley said he chose Bennet because he had "lived life near the headlines" in his job as a reporter, had excelled at long-form narrative and had a "selfless nature."
My First Job: Mike Peringer, director of marketing/sales
Current position: Director of Marketing/Sales at Process Heating; also president of the Sodo Business Association.
No end to this ski run
The first time Paul Rossman worked as a ski instructor, he was a ninth-grader teaching people how get through icy moguls on a hill with a 200-foot vertical drop and four rope tows in Michigan.
What This Job Pays: musicians, singers
Median hourly earnings of musicians and singers were $17.85 in 2004, the latest figures available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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