"How to Do Life" is Now an Audiobook

I'm delighted to say that my book How to Do Life: What They Didn't Teach You in School is now available as an audiobook.

As of today, it's available on audible.com, on Amazon.com and soon on iTunes. An audio sample of the book is HERE.

It's described on Audible.com as "a remarkable and highly distilled assemblage of not-obvious yet powerful advice on career, money, relationships, emotional health, physical health, education, and life's biggest questions, How to Do Life distills countless books and Google searches, plus the experience of what has worked best for the 3,900 career and life-coaching clients Dr. Nemko has worked with over the past quarter century."

Of course, it's also still available as a printed book and in a Kindle edition. For those, plus reader reviews of the book, click HERE.

Where Are the Jobs? At the Bottom

The middle class truly is disappearing. As I've long said and as is argued more academically in this video, most of the job openings are in very low-wage jobs--janitorial, food service, home health aides, etc. $10 an hour is the new norm.

So don't let the flat unemployment statistics suggest that the job market is stablizing. A person who previously worked for $75,000 a year may now well be working for $10 an hour yet will still be counted in the government statistics as "employed."

 I truly am worried and sad for those who are trying to earn a middle-class living in today's America.

A Crash Course in Success

HERE is my latest contribution to U.S. News, published today.

It's a bit boy-scouty but I hope you'll nonetheless find it of value.

"California's Favorite Job Coach?"

I don't know how he determined it, but an article by the former California Employment Development Director and Milken Fellow called me "California's Favorite Job Coach." I guess I can't help but feel proud.  More important to you, I hope you'll find some of the tips I offer in that article of value.

How to Do Life: Life Advice I Wish My Parents Had Given Me

Here's my latest AOL piece: How to Do Life: What I Wish My Parents Told Me.

Note, it's actually quite different than the similarly titled piece of mine, 10 Life Lessons Guaranteed to Advance Your Career that appeared last week on USNews.com, Yahoo!, and Business Insider.

CoolTech Careers

A number of my clients love being on the cutting edge of technology, so I've been focusing on getting smarter about what I call CoolTech Careers.  

Here's my current list of technologies I believe most likely to burgeon:

• 3D-printer-manufactured products. 3D printers are even being used to build buildings!
•  Sensors--medical, homeland security, radio frequency identification devices (RFID), and 3D sensors, which could be used, for example, to mass-customize clothing. 
• Safer nuclear power, for example, thorium or WAMSR. Even current new-generation nuclear plants are deemed much safer than Fukushima's and are being built.
• Artificial intelligence-aided diagnosis: medical, tech, customer service.
•  Non-automotive robotics, for example, in packaging and smart bin-picking. Alas, that will cause many warehouse jobs to disappear.
• Next-gen smartphones: the ultimate manifestation of convergence: merging, for example, medical monitoring, household control, GPS, and replacement of the PC  thanks to fold-out screens and laser keyboards that project a keyboard onto any nearby flat surface.
• Next-generation hybrid engines. Electric cars (as well as solar and wind energy) will--as I have predicted---fail because of physics delimitations. Toyota has opined that EVs will never be more than a bit player and is putting most of its resources into improving hybrid-powered vehicles. 

Best Careers for 2013 and Beyond

Earlier this month, I had written The Top 10 Careers for 2013 and Beyond, for U.S. News. That made the case that U.S. Department of Labor lists are inadequate.

AOL asked me to expand that. It was published today: My 21 picks for best careers for 2013 and well-beyond.