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"All of Silicon Valley is based on character defects that are rewarded uniquely in this system."

For the first time since the economic recovery began six years ago, white-collar professionals with specialized skills in fields like technology, finance, engineering and software find themselves in the catbird seat.

Corporate and account sales workers earn an industry average of $80,000 per year, according to a recent report from Glassdoor, but some Bay Area companies are paying much more than that.

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Freelancing can be a good option to further your career while having some flexibility.

With its gleaming classrooms, sports teams and even a pep squad, the Apprentice School that serves the enormous Navy shipyard here bears little resemblance to a traditional vocational education program.

Unlimited vacation policies aren’t just for start-ups. One of America’s largest corporations is also taking a more liberal stance on employee time off.

The decades-long shift to these more flexible workplace arrangements, the venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and the labor leader David Rolf argue in the latest issue of Democracy Journal, is a "transformation that promises new efficiencies and greater flexibility for ’employers’ and ’employees’ alike, but which threatens to undermine the very foundation upon which middle-class America was built."

A new study finds quantifiable evidence that walking in nature could lead to a lower risk of depression.

"The obstacles to re-employment success stem not just from employer views about older workers, but also from age-related differences in knowledge, skills, and abilities, and the kind of jobs people want," says Ruth Kanfer, coauthor of the study in the journal Psychological Bulletin.