'The Purrtraitist' follows the country's foremost felines at competitive cat shows across the U.S.

Many Americans celebrate Labor Day by getting together for a cookout, taking a final road trip before the kids go back to school, or going to the beach. According to data from the U.S. Census, more Americans — 4,562,160 — work in retail sales than in any other occupation.

Although I don't think you can boil your career down to an infographic, it is an interesting read.

Every employer wants employees who contribute to the overall success of the company. Here's how the best bring long-term ROI.

Over the past five years, American politics has become obsessed with robots. President Obama has warned that ATMs and airport check-in kiosks are contributing to high unemployment. Sen. Marco Rubio said that the central challenge of our times is "to ensure that the rise of the machines is not the fall of the worker." A cover story in the Atlantic asked us to ponder the problems of a world without work.

Don't worry -- you aren't doomed to failure.

Jackie Macedo has been cooking at Sydney's Orange Grove Markets for 14 years. And for the last few, she's been bringing her little boy Noah with her. But this week Jackie received a phone call from the market operators saying there'd been complaints about him being there. "The manager has said it's a duty of care issue so I guess they feel I'm neglecting my child by bringing him along here," Jackie told SBS. She was told other stall holders too are concerned.

Our culture is rich with esteem-boosting platitudes for young dreamers, but the assurances are dishonest and dangerous. By Leslie Garrett.

Some pranksters are working hard to create fake LinkedIn profiles. Why? The strange debut of "Alice Powell" sheds some light on this mystery.

Sir Richard Branson may be the most high-profile advocate of unlimited vacation days, but he's far from the only entrepreneur entranced by the idea. His announcement last fall of the new policy for some employees at Virgin set off a flurry of press coverage of other firms that were succeeding with similar policies (as well as a few pieces offering skeptical pushback).

Though Duggan and other critics claim disability insurance reduces employment, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program creates strong incentives for beneficiaries to stay in, or return to, the workforce. Beneficiaries are allowed to earn up to $1090 a month (the current threshold for “substantial gainful activity”) with no reduction in benefits.

Millennials will be a powerful generation of workers; those with the right skills will be in high demand. In reality, there are strong similarities between millennials and the generations that have preceded them: they want security and variety in their career; they want to be stretched and challenged; they want to work for a company of which they can be proud; and they have every intention of being loyal.

How do you thrive in today's companies? Margaret Heffernan's advice is to invest time in getting to know people and ask for their help.

For all their faults, millennials are actually very well-equipped to handle the job market's current trends.

Citrin, with three children in their 20s, wrote a book called "The Career Playbook" to help millennials — and anyone, for that matter — land jobs and keep them. We asked him to share some advice for job hunters.

To challenge myself, I have set a goal to earn 100k USD as soon as possible with freelancing gigs.

Early this morning, this article crossed my transom: Why I Won't Run Another Startup. It's short, and it's excellent. Go read it. It brought to mind an interesting social dynamic that, I think, is ...

“Now that we’re living so much longer, we do not know what we will be doing with all that time.”