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Why Hourly Wage Earners Are Happier Than Salaried Workers


Money may not equal happiness, but it's pretty safe to assume that most workers out there tend to like it quite a bit.

While it's obvious that our job satisfaction often coincides with the amount of money we make, something that hasn't been so clear is how the way we earn that money affects us as employees. A recent study found that the relationship between money and happiness is stronger for people paid hourly because they're more often reminded of how much they earn.

8 Awesome Resumes

It’s a very difficult task to create a creative and engaging resume. You want to show your individuality and your inventiveness but that can sometimes cross the line into the territory of egotism or even weirdness. Here are 8 resumes that tread that line beautifully.

1. The facebook profile is one of the most recognizable templates on the web. This savvy media producer used that to her advantage and created a simply outstanding resume.

Top 5 richest Internet entrepreneurs

The dot com boom had everyone believing they could make a fortune on the internet. After that bubble burst those expectations were put in sharp focus. Despite that fact these 5 enterprising individuals not only survived, they prospered in the new online environment and in the process made themselves very, very wealthy.

5: Pierre Omidyar

11 cases of gorgeously ironic misspellings


In the world of HR you come across a lot of spelling errors, some of which are incredibly hilarious. At least those errors are semi-private. When those errors are on protest signs the irony usually results in hilarity.

1. The "Speak English" crew.
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11 Companies That Surprisingly Collaborated With the Nazis


What do Bayer, Hugo Boss and IBM all have in common?

They all collaborated with Nazi Germany. Those three are merely a sampling of the many that had strong ties to the Nazis during World War II. Some of the names on this list of 11 companies may surprise you.

1. Kodak.

During World War Two, Kodak's German branch used slave laborers from concentration camps. Several of their other European branches did heavy business with the Nazi government.