DNA as Art!
November 13, 2009 by Golden Parachutes
Filed under Inspirational Stories, Videos
I love this! This is for all of you that are trying to find a way to marry your love of science and art, which at times seem like polar opposites!
Laid Off? So Were Some of the Most Famous People!!
November 12, 2009 by Golden Parachutes
Filed under Featured Content, Inspirational Stories
So you just got laid off, or you fear you will be – now what?? Here is a list of “famous folks” who also unceremoniously received the axe from their jobs and still managed to strike it rich (and famous, lol). Jerry Seinfeld was fired in his mid-20′s from a comedy sitcom called “Benson.” After [...]
Leaving Corporate America: Amy Phillips
November 1, 2009 by Golden Parachutes
Filed under Inspirational Stories
I have to say I have never really worked long in Corporate America. I worked for a national insurance company for a year, so I guess I did get a taste of it. I couldn’t get out of that company fast enough to join a start-up e-tailer when the opportunity came, and the main reason [...]
Leaving Corporate America: Charlene Dupray
October 31, 2009 by Golden Parachutes
Filed under Inspirational Stories
In high school, I was voted “Most Likely to Succeed”. Determined to live up to the prophecy, a decade later I found myself climbing a Madison Avenue corporate ladder as a headhunter for more than three hundred multinational corporations. I lived in a great Upper East Side apartment, earned an impressive salary, and worked more [...]
Escape from Corporate America
October 28, 2009 by Golden Parachutes
Filed under Inspirational Stories
After twelve long years climbing the corporate ladder, I had all of the things that I thought I wanted. A six-figure salary, a fancy title, and an office with a view. I had a “good job”, but I was miserable. Why? My job was demanding, but not challenging. Nothing about my work seemed meaningful or [...]

