Congratulations, cog! You’ve just been ostensibly gifted with every corporate minnow’s dream: You get to work from home and decide which hours you want to work and which hours you don’t. You’re your own boss now! Lol, just kidding, everything is terrible, including this seemingly pleasant new...
Garry Pelton was nervous to talk with his girlfriend. Not that anything was wrong; in fact, Pelton was considering asking her to marry him. But before he did, he knew they had to talk about money — specifically, whether they had similar personal finance goals and philosophies....
It’s pervasive in what you might call the Success Literature: Powerful, accomplished people know something you don’t. Not just about sleep habits and morning routines, but also the company they keep. In short: Successful men aren’t friends with losers. Their time is too precious; they can’t afford to lose the...
Life as we know it in 21st-century America is dictated by your credit score. Those mysterious three digits — decided in secret, and as vulnerable to simple accounting mistakes as to willful misdeeds — are the biggest factor in whether the bank decides to give you that...
No matter how old you are, dropping a thousand bucks on anything feels horrible. That mostly means it’s easy to put off long-term investments and make Future You, the sucker who has to deal with Present You’s laziness and bad ideas, deal with it. After all, Future...
Listing your love of chess and skeet shooting and your days as a summer camp counselor on your resume may seem like a no-brainer. Such pastimes help distinguish you from hundreds of other applicants who know how to use Microsoft Word and also demonstrate specific skills that...
What is business casual for men? That’s the question every guy asks himself when headed to a job interview or perhaps an event celebrating the accomplishments of a family member, so we’re here to answer with the help of LA-based stylist Rayne Parvis. So what is business...
In the 17th century, knowing when to abandon a sinking ship was easy, due to the fact that the ship was quite literally sinking. Today, however, in a world overrun with modern-day corporate pirate ships, knowing when to bail on a failing start-up or collapsing legacy brand...
We all know gold is valuable and pretty much always has been. For much of human history, it was money itself. Then we switched to paper money, which was… somehow tied to gold? Basically, anyway: It was called the gold standard, but it’s no longer actually our...
Millennials, as MEL previously reported, are quitting their jobs in droves so they can rent a closet in a major city and land at a company that actually appreciates them: “Barely half of the millennials surveyed in a recent Gallup poll strongly agreed that they planned to be working...
Are you a middle-aged man with some middle-of-the-road corporate power? Are you also a mostly happy guy who often feels misrepresented by your own jerk(ish) face during presentations in the conference room? Well, now you can completely change the fact that the skin between your eyes always...
It’s not just serial killers who’ve wondered how to remove blood stains. It’s not only clumsy folk who’ve pondered how to remove red wine stains, or desperately typed in the words, “remove chocolate stain” as their dessert enthusiastically smears into their new white couch. We’ve all had...