Marty Nemko

My PsychologyToday.com article today is a mock career counseling session with a researcher who'd rather work long hours than have fun...

It’s popular to extol the “life” part of “work-life balance” and its various manifestations such as exhortations to meditate. The masses ...

Perhaps today’s #1 mantra is “work-life balance.” I think that’s misguided. I believe life is better-led when you spend as many heartbeats...

For most people, including the Framers, core to the life well-led is "the pursuit of happiness." Career corollaries include: ...

A mark of good writers, whether fiction, essay, or poetry, is the ability to unflinchingly illuminate the emotional issues that people o...

My PsychologyToday.com article today is a short fable I wrote about a bee. It raises issues about how to live life.  I'll be sendin...

HERE is the link to my latest TIME article, just published this morning. It asks whether we're too quick to call hard workers "...

We used to call people who worked long hours "hard workers." Now, we tend to pathologize them as "workaholics," like a...

I'm planning to write a book called "Workaholic!": 30 hard workers tell their story. Its purpose will be to encourage peopl...

Many people who work long hours are more accurately described as "hard workers" or even "heroic" rather than "worka...

Work/life balance is overrated. That's the contention of my USNews.com post today. Some of the most contented, contributory and not...

It's been a busy few days. On top of my usual full docket of career counseling clients, writing my weekly AOL article and weekly USNews...

The older we get, the more we realize we only have a limited amount of time to do the things we believe are important. Conventional wisd...