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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Career Profile: Music Therapist

Job Title:  Music Therapist
What is a/an Music Therapist?
A Music Therapist is a licensed therapist who uses music to treat adults & children with psychiatric disorders, mental retardation and developmental disabilities, speech and hearing impairments, physical disabilities, and neurological impairments, and other disorders.
What does a/an Music Therapist do?
A Music Therapist does essentially the same things a [...]

His Is Bigger Than Yours (His Comp Package, That Is)

Bank of America Chairman and Chief Kenneth D. Lewis earned $26 million in 2006, according to an SEC filing.  Here’s the breakdown on Mr. Lewis’ eye-popping compensation package:

$1.5 million in salary
$6.5 million in nonequity incentive plan compensation
$14.6 million in stock and option awards
$15,972 for financial planning and tax preparation services
$110,899 in personal use of company [...]

Mini Career Profile: Linguistics Professor

Okay, this will not be one of my usual profiles because I’m writing this during my 10 minute break.  I am attending a reasonably interesting workshop on second language acquisition through task-based language teaching (translation: What’s the best way to teach kids a second language?).  The workshop is actually for teachers, but I like to [...]

10 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Before I Started Working

I’ve worked in human resources for 10 really long years.  I’ve had a great career in terms of progression and variety and earnings.  I’ve had some really meaningful work experiences and met lots of people that I count among my friends.  But, there are things that I’ve learned along the way that I wish I [...]