New Help Finding a Career

So for the past while I've been writing for Talent Egg's blog, The Career Incubator. Even with my bias I still think you will find that Talent Egg is a great organization. It is designed to be more of a career hub than just a job-listing service.

Besides my simple writing on the site, the entire organization is run by a great group of people. Founder Lauren Friese has got quite the head on her shoulders. You can see this by some of the great articles she writes. In addition, the whole team is adding some amazing insight and advice into the crazy world of finding your ideal career.

In addition, I think every job listed on the site is fantastic and work a look.

I've become quite connected in the career-finding world through Talent Egg. Every day I'm learning new things and meeting new people. One great opportunity I had was to participate in TD Moneylounge's "The Hunt" video series. Each week there is a new episode. I've appeared in each of the two episodes so far. Episode Three, "Options in a Slumping Economy", airs April 8th.

Financial Analysts Cover Their Assets

If you listened to The Current on CBC Radio today you heard Anna Maria Tremonti interview Joel Lovell, financial analyst for GQ Magazine. Now, I could go on about the merits of any financial analysis that appears in a magazine featuring scantly clad women on the cover, but I won't (besides that obvious jab).

The issue I have is more with economists all over the globe, and less with Mr. Lovell specifically. I first had an issue with economists when I met the cold-heart and shred pessimism of Milton Friedman.

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

This type of indifferent pragmatism has left the world in a situation where they are now turning on the words of economists. Instead, people and companies are turning to politicians for bailouts, stimulus packages, and bailouts. What economists previously called the problem, we call the solution.

What annoys me now is that these analysts are going on the radio and telling listeners there was no way they could predict the downward spiral we now face. Mr. Lovell compared this inability to that of a Doctor being unable to predict a future diagnosis of cancer. True. However, that same Doctor does not tell you to smoke cigarettes, lay out in the sun without sunscreen, and then tell you they had no way to predict your cellular disease.