Unlike Frey's past heroes, though, he's not a Wall Street hotshot but a paper products sales rep trapped in a dead-end job.
Perhaps you should give the kid graduating from Yale some credit for being smart enough to recognize a dead end job when he sees one?
If you know somebody who's caught in a dead-end job and afraid he can't afford the classes necessary to get better jobs for the rest of his life, tell him not to give up -- he can go on to college.
He was stuck, not in a dead-end job but on the back road going 45 mph while many of his peers zoomed along the expressway in excess of 80 mph, and even faster for those who had learned to exceed the speed limit with impunity.
Who hasn't been ambitious and in search of a mentor like Wall Street's young stockbroker Bud Fox, or frustrated in a dead-end job like American Beauty's suburban ad executive Lester Burnham, or scared of being fired like the desperate real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross?
Tim Clem, 30, was hired at GitHub last year for a back-end coding job.
If you end up leaving your job before repaying the loan, you may also end up owing a tax plus a 10% penalty on the remaining balance.
If anything, there is an accompanying effort these days, even by centre-left governments, to inject a bit more flexibility into the protected end of the job market too.
Some deceptive ads end up on job boards anyway because "scammers learn each time how to break through whatever the filter is that's knocking them out, " says Gerry Crispin, co-founder of CareerXroads, a Kendall Park, N.
This kind of doublespeak became more and more troubling, and my career came to an end over a job involving revising a manuscript supporting the use of a drug for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a duration of action that fell between that of shorter- and longer-acting formulations.
When the semester ended, she knew, her job would end, as well.
Or, maybe they end up reviewing many job board sites and even tailor their resumes a little each time, thinking that will make all the difference this time.
These disparities result in health challenges like asthma and heart disease, and end up turning away job creators looking for attractive, healthy places to set up their businesses.
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Unruffled, Nomura's boss dismisses doubts about his plan to turn Japan's 83-year-old brokerage into a global hitter even, he suggests, if that means a "reverse takeover" by former Lehman executives, one of whom may eventually end up with his job.
High-end custom tuners such as Job Spetter start with a blank slate and reprogram each engine's computer.
Like the chair, for example, manufacturers can keep changing the aesthetics, but in the end it already does the job well.
College Jobs sprang from an idea he had when applying for a summer job at the end of his freshman year.
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At the other end of the spectrum, job boards provide faster results for low-paying, low-skill jobs such as cashiers and truck drivers.
The reason many graduates persist with working for free is the lure of a possible paid job at the end of their internship.
Roger Enrico, chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo , announced that he would step down from his job before the end of 2002.
Their position: When people really get enthused about working on things outside of their job, they end up just going through motions at work.
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Because your heir thrives off the work he or she does, the job is an end in itself rather than the means to an end.
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Peterson, a 31-year-old from French Lick, Indiana, will be out of a job by the end of the week, and there's no extra money to buy presents.
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