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16 Last-Minute Tips to Help Your Teen Find a Summer Job

It’s getting late in the summer, and your teen still needs a job. Here’s a simple plan to help you and your teen find 6-8 weeks of...

Tips for Finding Teen Summer Jobs

It’s getting late for finding summer work and your teen still needs a job. Here’s a clear plan to help you and your teen find one. Agree...

17 Tips to Help Launch Your Teen into Their First Job

Encourage your teen to work once they reach age 16. Teen work is primarily about experience and new relationships, and less about money. ...

10 Days You Will Need the Gig Economy

Stuff Happens. That's When You Want Choices. The gig economy gets tepid publicity, yet it continues to recruit more of the workforce, 34...

Education or Work Experience? Which is More Valuable

We estimated the salary value of work experience and of education and compared the two by combining measurements from nine respected...

Beethoven's Business Model for the Gig Economy

In our earlier blog we saw how Mozart invented the gig economy when he realized at age 25 that he could work for himself, not for an...

Did Mozart Invent the Gig Economy?

You might have heard the term “gig economy” recently. The media love to use the term, but what does it mean? Will it help you or hurt...

Unleash Our Jobs Potential

Imagine if three remarkable Massachusetts innovations created the potential to significantly boost the state economy over the next four...