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Chin up: The few, the proud, the holdouts

Some fields are thinning fast, but if — like these intrepid folks — you’ve got drive, flexibility, and a competitive spirit, you can endure in the job you love.

8 tips for the overworked

If you suffer from overwork, you may feel you have no choice but to grin and bear it; when layoffs still loom, who wants to be the one whining about working weekends? But there are steps you can take.

Check out these eight tips for the chronically overworked.

What Went Wrong?

he kid was born into medicine. He was on track to becoming one of Boston’s next great spine surgeons, taking his place alongside his father among the city’s medical elite. But on this day in January, the 43-year-old sits on the dark bench in the dimly lit gallery of Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, watching the parade of career criminals …

For a fallen surgeon, a higher power

Less than a decade ago, David Arndt was a rising star. He had a Harvard Medical School degree, a thriving practice as an orthopedic surgeon, and a nice place in the South End with a Saab parked outside. Then, in the summer of 2002, while performing complicated spinal surgery, Arndt walked out on his patient — who was lying on …

Overworked? Here’s how to deal

The good news is you still have a paycheck. The bad news is, as staffing ranks have shrunk, your workday is lengthening and your in-box is bursting at the seams. What’s an overwhelmed employee to do? Try these eight tips from career counselors.

They’re hired!

Right now, even the best and brightest are being ejected from promising jobs. But it is still possible to find another. Here are lessons from six determined people.

Powering up your resume

In tough times, spamming the world with the same old resume just doesn’t cut it. Don’t give up — change your strategy.

He left the Shakers for love

My article on the world’s last four Shakers was at first only unusual because it was a rare glimpse into daily life at the Protestant monastic sect’s idyllic hilltop village in rural southern Maine. Never could I have imagined that that story, of all stories, would become the story behind the story of how I met, and eventually married, the …

After a gender change, no regrets

On November 11, 2007, Deborah Bershel made the six-hour drive from her apartment in Somerville to a small private hospital in Montreal. In many ways, it was the final leg of a journey that had begun a year and a half earlier, when Roy Berkowitz-Shelton, a longtime family doctor in Somerville, had stunned his patients by announcing that he would …

Running For Her Life

Slowed by age and injuries, as well as long battles with bulimia and depression, Patti Dillon saw her record-breaking running career come to a halt when she was in her mid-30s. A short time later, her third marriage also ended, and she was laid off from her position as a job-training specialist at a Native American center in Jamaica Plain. …