Career & Employment

Quitting Your Job Is Selfish: Engineering Your Layoff Is The Ethical Way To Go

Quitting your job is selfish. The better way to quit your job is to engineer your layoff by negotiating a severance. Everybody wins when you engineer your layoff as you find, hire, and train your replacement. If you quit your job and only give two weeks notice, you are likely leaving your employer in a […]

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Use The Family And Medical Leave Act (FMLA) To Negotiate A Severance Package

It’s been about ten years since I first released How To Engineer Your Layoff to the world. One of the chapters talks specifically about The Family And Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The ebook is a niche product specific to helping people break free from a job they no longer care about by negotiating a severance. Growing old and being

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Stock Options Are For Suckers Who Accept Below Market Rate Pay

There’s a good saying in the poker-playing community, “If you don’t know who the sucker is at the table, it’s you.” Given work compensation (cash or stock) is likely the #1 source of wealth for the vast majority of people, I think it’s important we have a thorough discussion on stock options so you don’t

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Over The Hill At 40 – Age Discrimination In The Workplace

Age discrimination in the workplace is all too common. This article discusses why we need to eradicate age discrimination, especially when there is a need to accumulate a larger net worth and work longer now that times are so uncertain. Every large corporation has some type of annual “Diversity Training” course where we learn not

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Mistakes I Made When Quitting My Job So You Don’t Do The Same

After spending years writing a 200+-page bestselling book on how to profitably quit your job with a severance, you’d think I’d have executed everything to perfection. However, let me share some mistakes I made when quitting my job so you don’t do the same. By the time I returned all grizzled and gray, I’d have

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