Lazy Days

Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.

  Career Development  

According to some information tidbits I've picked up, an increasing number of job candidates are not putting all their energy into building their careers. And it's because they are unhappy or disenchanted (often both) with their jobs.

Why is it happening when the economy is finally on solid ground, the future looks good, most industries are hiring again and in many hot sectors--such as healthcare--open jobs are begging for candidates?

On the technology front, companies that were barely squeaking along on skeleton staffs a few years ago are back in the game. Developers and engineers who were sentenced to indefinite unemployment are once again taking home paychecks. And project managers who were given the boot and reduced to scraping along on contract assignments--if they could find them--have been re-hired and given sizable budgets, along with the autonomy and respect they once enjoyed.

With good times here again, you'd think most workers would be feeling good about their careers. Not so. Let's take a look at a couple of signposts that indicate all isn't right in Camelot. Think twice about reading on. What you are about to learn could hurl you into a bottomless depression or radically change your life. You're on your own…

According to a recent poll of more than 1,000 American workers by Maritz Research in St. Louis, 74 …

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