When the topic of successful careers comes up, the images that it creates are of hours and hours of toiling over books, endless exams, five and six years of study, and a whole lot of bother in general. Think doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, lawyers and programmers. ‘Grueling’ is the word that is most often used to describe these conventional career paths. We treat…

Tons of schools and colleges across the United States claim to be military-friendly institutions. Some do a fantastic job of advertising this while others go out of their way to recruit veterans because let’s face it, it sure does wonders for your reputation as an institution.

But how can one really tell whether a school is truly military-friendly? Is it by the number of adverts they have about how military-friendly they are? Or should you go by how great their slogan is?

The…

There are careers and then there are careers. Some take an absolute age to even qualify for. Young kids with aspirations to be surgeons or engineers or professors and even lawyers have to bury their noses in mountain upon mountain of books and invest precious years of their lives to acquire the necessary qualifications and career training to carry out these professions. Not that there’s anything wrong at all with any of these career paths, in fact, most if not all are quite well respected…