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Should You Go Back To School?: Questions to Ask Before Returning to College or Graduate School

My PsychologyToday.com article today asks questions to help a person decide whether it's wise for to go back to college or graduate school. HERE is the link.

How to Be Smart in a Less Smart World

My PsychologyToday.com article today: How to Be Smart in a Less Smart World.

First episode of my soap opera, It's a Living runs today on AOL

Today, AOL begins running my text-only soap opera, It's a Living.

It embeds career and life tips in a soap-operaish continuing saga. 

Like a TV soap, it runs daily, Monday through Friday. HERE's the link to the first episode.

Tips for Worriers: Ways to reduce anxiety about death, dying, public speaking, social anxiety and free-floating anxiety

My PsychologyToday.com article today is Tips for Worriers.  

It's not aimed at people with severe anxiety. It just offers tips for the garden-variety handwringer who worries about death, dying, public speaking, social anxiety or free-floating anxiety

My on-air conversation today with Robert Reich

HERE is the audio of today's radio show in which I spend an hour in conversation with former U.S. Secretary of Labor to President Clinton and advisor to President Obama, Robert Reich.  

Coping with Type A Behavior

My PsychologyToday.com article today: The angry, intense, rushing person: How to cope if it's you or someone else. HERE is the link.

Marty Nemko's 50 YouTube videos: career advice, education reform, piano playing, and why he likes Christmas

On YouTube, I've posted more than 50 videos. Here are some of the titles:

Lessons From My Failures
How I Write My Columns
Developing Drive
Reinventions: Our Political Campaigns
Reinventions: K-12 Education
Reinventions: Undergraduate education
Reinventions: Climate Change
Six Ways to Meet Bright and Gifted Kids' Needs
An Emotional Plea for Government to Require Colleges to Post a College Report Card
Why We Need a White House Council on Boys and Men
Keys to a better talk on intelligence
Finding Your Career
A seven-fingered pianist
How to play the piano by ear
Venus and Iris: A children's story but not really
Big, Black and Shy (the show I co-wrote and piano-accompany)
Why this Jew by birth, atheist by practice, likes Christmas.

 HERE's the link to my YouTube channel.

The Evidence Mounts Against Marijuana: Reasons and Ways to Cut Back or Stop

A spate of new evidence indicates that marijuana is far more dangerous than we thought, yes to memory and motivation but it also makes us more prone to heart attack and stroke. Marijuana is the new tobacco.

My PsychologyToday.com article today summarizes the research and then suggests ways that abusers of any substance might cut down or even stop. HERE is the link.

The Case for A Break: Even if you're Job Hunting

Cruise ship dining room. Great networking opp.

My AOL article today: Why job seekers should take a break. Odd for workaholic me to recommend that, but as I hope you'll agree, it makes sense. HERE is the link. 

Regular readers of this blog may note that this is my first AOL article in more than a month. The reason is that they've had me on a special project: the Days of Our Worklives text-based soap opera about work, the first 43 episodes of which I posted on this blog. NBC Universal, the owner of Days of Our Lives won't let AOL use that name, so it will be called It's a Living and the first episode will be published on AOL this Monday. 

Like a TV soap opera, it will run daily, Monday through Friday. I've now written the first 92 episodes but like a TV soap opera, they can discontinue it at any time or renew it depending on whether you like it. Hoping you do, of course. 

My Radio Conversation with Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich

This is an updated version of an earlier post. I've now recorded the conversation with Robert Reich and thought you might like to know what you'll hear when it airs this Sunday.

I rarely promote my NPR-San Francisco radio program (KALW-FM, 91.7 FM,) Work with Marty Nemko, but this coming Sunday's program is special.

I was honored that former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich agreed to return for a second long-form conversation. I have now recorded that.

First, I asked about key moments and decisions in Reich's life. It turned out to be an exchange in which we each told tales, some funny, all instructive.

Most of the conversation was about whether it's wise for the government to additionally redistribute income, raise the minimum wage, and about the Obama Administration's increased use of Disparate Impact to abet minority employment. 

I aspired to the journalistic standard--tough but fair--for example, raising the best argument I could against his position and then simply letting him have his say. But I failed regarding Disparate Impact, on which Reich and I had a more extended, spirited exchange. So I was relieved today to receive a one-line but reassuring note from him: "Thanks, Marty. Enjoyed it immensely. Bob." 

After the conversation, I offered post-mortem musings.

The program airs this Sunday, April 27 from 11 AM to noon on KALW 91.7 FM (NPR-San Francisco.) Outside the Bay Area, it can be heard then on kalw.org  where it will be permanently archived. It will also be available for free download in  iTunes and on the National Public Radio website.