There can be no doubt that the job market has been more resilient since the financial crisis than many imagined. Unemployment did not rise as far as was feared and the recovery in employment to pre-recession levels has been quicker than forecast by even the most optimistic labour economists. So, time for some self-congratulatory back-slapping among policy makers then? On the surface of things, at least, it looks like a jobs miracle, despite the belt-tightening of austerity.

Here’s a look at some life lessons for freelancing to take — and leave — from some of our favorite TV characters, past and present.

Amazon announced today that Woody Allen will write and direct a series for the company. Two months ago, Netflix announced it would no longer air Bill Cosby’s comedy special; he also saw NBC scuttle discussions for a new sitcom. So: We have two septuagenarian comedy icons, one white and one black, both recently mired in accusations about long-ago sex crimes... but one is rewarded with an exciting new gig, while the other is having his career annihilated.

Meet Eric and Ilsa. Eric, 41, is a physician who works one day a week in a medical clinic, for which he earns $200,000 a year. He works one additional day at a university, for which he makes another measly $100,000 annually. Ilsa, 39, is a dentist currently on maternity leave who will bring in another $150,000 when she returns to work. And yet, despite their seeming prosperity, this Vancouver couple can’t make ends meet. What’s to be done?!

Understanding what other freelancers get wrong and being sure to do that can be sure to keep existing clients as well as attract new ones.

Successful digital marcomms managers must be able to demonstrate five key traits in 2015 or risk falling behind the competition, according to latest market insight from VMA Group.

Working from home may sound like a dream, but what happens if it turns into a nightmare for your health?

On the manufacturing assembly lines of Shinola in Detroit are the stories of people who have found labor that fulfills dreams and inspires new ones.

Don Watson thought he was just doing his job when he chased and confronted a shoplifter stealing buggies overflowing with merchandise from the Prattville Wal-Mart a month ago. One night while working his regular shift, Watson, who served as the night manager, heard an alarm signaling an emergency door was open and he ran to see what was happening. He spotted a man, who he called a habitual shoplifter, with a buggy outside of the store. "When I caught up to the individual...

Learn how a company in Sweden is embedding its employees with microchips for easier identification. Will this be the future for employees around the world?

It really comes down to managing three segments in your life: time, space and mindset.

What could you do with an extra million dollars?

Last week, Yahoo fired about 100 people. The firings were part of a strategic realignment. Over the weekend, we heard a story from two sources that's a reminder of how painful such corporate realignments can be for employees on the ground. Yahoo has an office in Amman, Jordan. For a while now, it's been known there that the office was closing. In fact, it was supposed to close by the end of 2014. Most of the people who used to work in the office have been out of a job for a while now.

Rather than trying to change the nature of who you are, consider adding these six simple actions into your day.

As I write this, I’m three months short of the big six O. Here’s some advice based on thirty-eight more years of living than you have. Challenge the known and embrace the unknown. Accepting the known and resisting the unknown is a mistake. You should do exactly the opposite: challenge the known and embrace the unknown. Now is the time to take this kind of risk because you have less to lose and everything to gain. Great things happen to people who question the status quo.

PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski admits: "I didn’t realize how horrible I’d been – until I had a child of my own."

Last week was the first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day, a grassroots protest to push for fair pay and better working conditions. Protests and teach-ins took place on as many as 100 campuses nationwide, prompting at least one university to create a task force to address labor concerns. It’s little wonder that a national movement has sprung up around the adjunct system, which offers little or no job security or access to benefits and significantly lower wages than regular faculty.

They lurk, unnoticed in the great halls of engineering that are the office strips along Highway 101. “Programmers” not programmers, people who have cheated, stolen, and lied their way through engineering careers without anyone realizing they can’t code. They are among us, incompetent Cylons secretly plotting to undermine us at a crucial time. Secretly terrible engineers (STEs) are everywhere, and they may be on your very team as we speak.

We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume it must be true. But is it? Researchers at Princeton-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) expected it to be when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Sponsored by the OECD, the test was designed to measure the job skills of adults, aged 16 to 65, in 23 countries.

North Koreans working abroad earn $1,000 per month on average, but up to 90 percent of their wages is intercepted by authorities, according to a book about human rights on their experiences, released Tuesday. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), a private research institute, authored the book after interviewing 20 North Koreans with experience of working abroad.