Archive: March 2008
What This Job Pays: event planner
The median pay of an event planner in the Seattle area is $52,208, with most making from $45,298 to $63,295.
Becoming battle ready for civilian work force
Brian Brooks sat against the wall, listening intently to instructions for his next mission. After 20 years of working for team Army, the next task was all his.
Fingerprint Scans Replace Clocking In
It's happening at Dunkin' Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases: Employees are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure, and the information is automatically reflected in payroll records.
Industrial work force short on tech savvy
Managers of some manufacturing plants have been making a claim that seems to defy logic. Yet there's every reason to think they're telling...
Bryan LaComa, landscape designer at In Harmony Sustainable Landscapes
Bryan LaComa, a designer at the sustainable landscaping company In Harmony, creates dozens of residential landscape plans each year.
What This Job Pays: graphic designer
Pay: The median pay in the Seattle area is $44,850, with most designers making from $39,768 to $51,430, according to salary.com Demand: Employment is expected to grow 10 percent, about as fast as average for all occupations from 2006...
Just love that cushy job
After working in gyms for 26 years, Gina Berta opened her own personal-fitness studio, one that resembled a spa more than a weight room...
Statewide payrolls up; jobless rate holds steady
Washington continued to defy the multiple drags on the U.S. economy in February, as state payrolls added 3,500 jobs and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.5 percent.
Live Q & A | Making your career work for you
Bio Michelle Goodman Author of the "The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube" (Seal Press) and the popular blog, Anti9to5Guide.com. A full-time freelance writer, she frequently contributes articles on job satisfaction and...
My First Job: Tyson Supasatit
Now: marketing writer. Then: campus computer-lab help desk.
What This Job Pays: bartender
The median pay of a bartender in the Seattle area is $16,119, with most making from $13,324 to $22,32.
How to weather the winds of change at work
It takes an impossible amount of effort to create a great team at work: To find the right people, to train them, to inspire them to excel, to keep them from being bored, to overcome difficult circumstances, to bond as a team. Inevitably someone has to move, someone gets a new job, someone else goes on maternity leave or sick leave.
Put down the iPod, stop texting and do your job
Tapping out an e-mail on your BlackBerry under the conference-room table. Resetting your ringtone to your favorite song. Keeping your Bluetooth in your ear at a business lunch. Think no one noticed those technological faux pas? Wrong – and many find it rude.
As economy grows stale, time to refresh résumé
If you're worried about losing your job as the economy weakens, it's time to update your résumé in case you need to hunt for new employment. Your goal should be making your résumé stand out from the hundreds of others employers receive.
Ariel Meadow Stallings, blogger at Microsoft
"I never thought my silly Internet addictions would actually be useful," says freelance writer and author Ariel Meadow Stallings. As a marketing manager on the software giant's staffing team, the Seattleite spends much of her time publishing "Microspotting" , a blog profiling some of Microsoft's most notable employees
More new fathers are taking time off
Christiaan Johnson-Green didn't rush back to work after his son, Saul, was born six years ago. Instead, he called his Manhattan law firm as soon as his wife went into labor and announced that he was starting his paternity leave, effective immediately.
Coaches can aid in job changes
For many workers, the desire or the need to change jobs is commonplace. Whether brought about by downsizing or a growing dissatisfaction with the trajectory of their careers or industries, many people have made a job switch or want to.
Hard at work in the career/life balancing act
When Dena Fantle needs to help in her son's classroom, she doesn't have to worry about checking in with her boss or fighting traffic to get to the school. Fantle just leaves. Six years ago, she left the corporate world and started a business as a corporate-project manager and space planner so that she could work around her son's and daughter's class schedules and after-school activities.
What This Job Pays: roofer
The median pay of a roofer in the Seattle area is $29,582, with most making from $26,704 to $33,133.
My First Job: Takumi Ono
Now: President, Junglecity Network. Then: Salesperson at a boutique.
What This Job Pays: taxicab drivers
The median pay of a taxicab driver in the Seattle area is $29,810 with most making from $24,761 to $36,382.
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