Why psychopaths

Like to work for other psychopaths. Role Modeling 101. And, after all, isn't there a little bit of psychopath in all of us?  From CBS News.

Why some workers are happy to have an abusive boss

Primary psychopaths "don't react to negative signals that provoke other people's anger or fear," Charlice Hurst, an assistant professor of management at the University Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and the study's lead researcher, said in an interview. "They have a really high tolerance for stress and for aggression toward them. They just don't react. And they don't have normal emotional reaction that would be helpful in an environment where you have someone who is behaving or who engages in behavior that usually invokes anger and fear."  

Researchers conducted two studies with about 400 working adults each, all in their mid-40s. In the first, participants were asked to react to profiles of managers drawn as constructive or abusive. In one group, those that tested as higher in primary psychopathy reported feeling happier imagining themselves working for abusive manager.  

A second group said they felt less angry and more engaged when rating how abusive their own supervisors were once they were asked about rudeness, gossip, taking credit for others' work invasion of privacy and breaking promises.  

"If they look at someone who's a supervisor who's abusive and they say 'oh look, if somebody like that can get ahead in this organization, that means I have a chance of getting ahead, too," Hurst said. "So instead of seeing abuses that are stressful and seeing somebody standing in their way that's going to hinder their progress and destroy them, they say 'yeah, the fact that this guy or this woman acts this way means I have potential here. They promote people like me.'"

From the Urban Dictionary

Jagoogala

Verb: Short hand for "Just Google It." i.e. do a google search. 

How many bones are in the human body? 

"Jagoogala!"

Tenessee's is Federal Express, natch

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When will Winter end....?

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Single mothers juggle college

With childcare. And financial aid. Most universities don't provide much help with the staggering cost. From The Atlantic.

What College Is Like as a Single Mother

According to a report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the number of single mothers in college more than doubled between 2000 and 2012, to nearly 2.1 million students. 

“There are more single mothers than there used to be,” says Barbara Gault, the vice president and executive director at IWPR. “Another reason is that for-profit colleges have aggressively recruited single mothers to attend their programs.” 

Only 28 percent of single mothers who start college complete degrees, and there has been no systematic effort to address the obstacles they face. The Trump administration wants to cut a federal-aid program that provides money for campus-based child care programs, the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program (CCAMPIS). 

“Average childcare costs a little under $10,000 a year,” says Meredith Kolodner, a reporter for The Hechinger Report who wrote about single mothers and college completion.“For most people, that’s more than their rent.” 

Single moms face other challenges, such as student financial-aid programs that can make them ineligible for food stamps and affordable housing. More than 60 percent of single mothers in college live at or below the federal poverty level.

Maybe you will only SEEM happier

Like the parallel in Catch 22, when Dunbar explains he loves shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He figured it added years to his life. But we're talking about coffee, here, folks. Live is too short for bad coffee. From Lifehacker.

Bad Coffee Will Make You a Happier Person

Bad coffee is the best coffee. Or less cryptically: The lower you can set your standard for acceptable coffee, the happier you’ll be. 

When you like something, it’s not typical to voluntarily try a worse version. It’s much more usual to try a better version, as a splurge. With coffee, where you don’t have to be rich to enjoy the top of the line once or twice, it’s easy to train yourself to appreciate a better version, and to come to crave it every day, until you’ve bought yourself a home pourover setup with a grinder and a scale for your single-origin beans, because anything less tastes like stomach acid run through a dishwasher. 

You start to rely on specific coffeeshops; you visit friends and turn down an offered cup. A tier of coffee that used to please you now disappoints you. You’ve kicked the ladder out from under you. You’re no longer backward compatible. 

What if instead, you tried a downgrade? Acclimate yourself to a slightly inferior cup of coffee? Splurge on a cheap cup from McDonald’s or Dunkin’ or the bodega? Grab the pre-ground beans? Buy a fifteen-dollar coffee machine instead of fussing with pourover or French press? Your body still appreciates the caffeine. And thanks to the march of technology and infrastructure, that cheap cup of coffee is a lot better than you remember. 

If your first attempt at cheap coffee goes horribly, that doesn’t mean you don’t like cheap coffee! It just means you have to test more varieties. Some “bad” coffee is burnt; some is watery; some is acidic; some just tastes funny. There’s a good chance there’s a “bad” coffee that doesn’t taste bad to you.

If putting in all this work for worse coffee sounds silly, consider that trying new things is always hit-or-miss. The first time you tried a certain foreign cuisine and had a bad time, you didn’t swear off trying new foods. Why would you give any less room to this experiment? 

And when you find the bad coffee that fits you, what a payoff! If you’re downgrading to chain coffee, you’ve gained the ability to grab a satisfying cup in almost any town. If you’re downgrading home brewing methods, you’re saving time. If you’re ditching lattes for drip, you’re cutting your costs in half.

Happy Presidents Day!

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I'm thinking of changing

An existing position into this job that didn't exist not too long ago. . . . From CBSNews.com.

7 jobs that didn't exist a decade ago

Social media manager

The rise of social networks such as Facebook (FB) and Twitter have created a new type of marketing job: social media manager. These professionals help run social media marketing campaigns, respond to customers on social media platforms and manage posts and other content on social media. 

Some social media managers have helped their businesses stand out, such as Merriam-Webster's irreverent Twitter account. (The dictionary tweeted the definition of "volunteer" to United Airlines [UAL] after the airline claimed it had looked for a volunteer before dragging a doctor off a plane.) 

The company told LitHub that its social media manager is "someone who almost completed a PhD, taught college English, and has a passion for and deep understanding of the English language in general and Merriam-Webster in particular." 

Social media managers earn an average salary of $48,000 a year, according to PayScale.

I would have guessed Vanderbilt

Was the most expensive college in Tennessee. Turns out to be Belmont. Nashville is an expensive town. From MSN Money.

The most expensive college in every state

42. TENNESSEE
> Most expensive college: Belmont University
> Annual net price: $34,678
> Statewide 4-yr public university tuition: $8,925
> Belmont University admission rate: 81.0%
> Total state student aid spending per student:  $1,138.29 (6th highest)

Tales of the nontraditional

Super bowl kicker returns to the University of Georgia to complete his degree. From the Chicago Tribune.

Former Bear Kevin Butler getting a kick out of returning to Georgia at 55 to graduate, help coach

On his first day back at school, 55-year-old University of Georgia senior Kevin Butler remembered his backpack, the AC/DC lunch box his wife, Cathy, bought for him and the advice his daughter, Katie, provided free. 

“I asked her what I should take to class, a book? And she said, ‘Dad, you’ll be the only one with a book — take a computer,’” said Butler, the former Bears kicker who returned to his alma mater in the fall to finally fulfill graduation requirements. 

Butler took five academic courses and was the oldest student in each classroom. One professor remembered Butler as the classmate who kicked a 60-yard field goal with 11 seconds left to upset No. 2 Clemson — in 1984. The guy whose kicking career included making clutch field goals in full stadiums never had noticed everybody watching him quite like this. 

“The first time I went to class, I felt like everyone looked at me and said, ‘Who’s the creepy guy in the back?’ or ‘Why is the janitor back there?’” Butler said. “But I enjoyed the classes. My three kids all got their degrees and were out of college, and this was something they always encouraged me to do. I go into a lot of business meetings, and the one thing I always lacked from other people was that diploma. It means something — or it does to me.” 

In addition to coaching Georgia kickers and punters at the invitation of coach Kirby Smart for the team playing for a national championship Monday in Atlanta against Alabama, Butler completed his last science lab on campus Thursday and will graduate with a degree in business economics. The assimilation process went smoothly enough that one faculty member enlisted Butler’s help in getting Georgia football players involved in a holiday community service project in Athens, Ga. 

“He was a mature student and great example,” said Robert Miles, the director of life skills for the Georgia athletic department and a starting defensive end on the Bulldogs’ last national champions in 1980. “Kevin took this challenge very seriously.”

National Wear Red Day

If you want to know how incredibly important - and complex - the human heart is, check out this interesting infographic:
11 Fascinating Facts About the Human Heart. 

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