Do you get jealous of other people's jobs?

Job interviews are becoming more like first dates.

Ever had a job where you were asked to do things that didn't feel right to you, but you did them anyway because you had to earn some money, and thought if you stuck around long enough, you could turn things around?

After graduating college, I pulled together a poetry tour of the East Coast with three friends. We couch-surfed and split small sums from homemade book sales and venue entry fees. Our biggest check—$2,000—came from working with a small city’s public library. That money made it possible for us to break even after a month on the road, but only just. It was a start, we thought.

Years later, one friend is in graduate school for archival science; another is in school to become a Unitarian Universalist minister; and the third works at cash-for-gold stand in the mall. I schedule appointments at the office of a moving company.

None of us have been able to rely on writing as a sole source of income. None of us have jobs in the arts that pay our rent. There was a time when this would have surprised me.

Amelia Earhart's prenuptial agreement written to George P. Putnam is pretty awesome.

Carrie Fisher is going to reprise her role as Princess Leia in the upcoming Star Wars films, and did a Q+A with Palm Beach Illustrated about her career. Don't we all strive for nice bedrooms?

"The risk of destroying a career is nothing compared with the evolutionary drive to reproduce."