With summer right around the corner, I wanted to share some cool facts & figures about working at summer camps. Did you know that camp enrollment — both sleep-away and day camps — has increased approximately 10% a year over the last decade? More campers mean more jobs for camp counselors! Did you know that […]
You can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about the clean up efforts from the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Disasters such as these sure to wreak havoc on our ecosystem and give all of us pause for thought about finding alternative fuel sources. If you have spent any […]
Back in the early days of blogging — circa 2004 — blogs were mostly online journals. Moms wrote about their new babies, college kids wrote about their love life angst. Today, however, blogs are part personal catharsis, part PR and part income stream. Every major brand has a blog, and most non-profits communicate with donors […]
I don’t normally watch Oprah (I swear, I don’t!), but the other day I happened to catch her episode about dream jobs. From the Creative Director of the wildly popular clothing brand J. Crew, Jenna Lyons (catch snippets of her segment here) to the so-called rock ‘n’ roll florist, Jeff Leathem, Oprah got up close […]
Oh man, it’s pouring rain and I’m stuck inside pounding out my work assignments. And then I get this note from my boss, asking me to research and tell our readers about Come Out & Play Australia. And now I’ve spent the better part of the last hour reading and dreaming and wishing I could […]
With the federal housing tax credit set to expire at the end of this month, the sale of new homes broke out of their winter slump and hit a two-year high in March. Sales jumped more than 26% over February’s numbers as home buyers rushed to take advantage of an $8,000 credit for first-time home […]
You know what I love about working for the JobMonkey? It truly is the home of cool jobs. I know, that’s kind of our unofficial tagline, but every few weeks the geniuses behind the JobMonkey scenes add a new job category over there on the website’s homepage and every time, I think: Wow, that really […]
Are you a fan of reality TV? I’ve watched a few episodes of Survivor, but never an entire season, and I’ve followed American Idol a couple of times (I may have even cried when David Cook won!). But my one true reality TV love is the Amazing Race. I love watching that show and imagining […]
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