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Finding a Career

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers an excerpt from a first career counseling session with a newly retired 50-year-old firefighter. (I've changed irrelevant details to protect his anonymity.)

Perhaps you might find the techniques I used with him to be useful to you or to someone you care about who's trying to choose a new career.

Is There Pure Good?

Even ISIS's horrific acts have a silver lining. They remind idealistic policymakers that one of their foundational assumptions is wrong: that everyone is well intentioned.

That dose of realism may ultimately improve policies so they better incorporate the full range of humankind's behavior.

So if even such base evil as ISIS has an upside, can there be pure good?

As a thought experiment I listed 10 things that, at first blush, strike me as a pure good. For each, I've tried to think of how even they aren't a pure good. To the extent I was able to do that, I strike a blow for relativism, for embracing the gray-areaness of most things and a blow against absolutist black-white thinking.

I've ended up concluding that six of the ten aren't pure goods. I describe my thinking about all of them in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

My New Book is Out: "The Best of Marty Nemko"

My new book, The Best of Marty Nemko: The best of his 3,000 articles on career, living, and making a difference is now available both in e-book and printed book.  If you click on this picture of the cover, you can read the small print.

And HERE is the link to it on Amazon.com.  

A Workover: She Has Lost Her Motivation to Look for a Job

On my NPR-San Francisco radio program,  I do Workovers: Callers call in with a career problem.

I've been posting edited transcripts of Workovers that might interest Psychology Today readers. 

Today's is my exchange with a woman who has lost her motivation to look for a job.

Why Men Don't Listen to Women

Many women complain that men listen poorly to them, especially when they want to "process" something. Such women often claim that men are not in touch with their feelings. 

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer other explanations. 

The Case for Staycations

Sure, if you're dating, a staycation can't compete with 7 days, 6 nights in Hawaii. But otherwise, I wonder if people who tout vacations suffer from selective memory. I attempt to remedy that in my PsychologyToday.com article today. .

Do You Feel Misunderstood?

Many people feel misunderstood. My PsychologyToday.com article today offers ways to address that.

The Psychology of Food

Many of us have a love-hate relationship with food. The hate usually relates to its calories: "A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips."

My PsychologyToday.com article today focuses on the love. Indeed, as George Bernard Shaw wrote, "There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

A Workover: He Wants to Make a Living Doing Workshops

On my NPR-San Francisco radio program, I do Workovers: Callers call in with a career problem.

On PsychologyToday.com, I've been posting edited transcripts of Workovers. In today's offering, a caller asked what I think of his idea of doing workshops for immigrants in colleges' career centers.

Six Thanksgiving Traps and How to Avoid Them

Media portrayals of halcyon Thanksgivings belie the frequent reality. Turkey Day has more traps that a Cambodian mine field. 

My PsychologyToday.com article today helps you avoid stepping on one.