We recently posted a poll on our homepage about job satisfaction. Do you love your job, hate it or are you currently working towards your career utopia? 25% of you said you hate your job or are totally indifferent about it (equally bad in our books), 20% said you are in your dream career and 55% said you are still working towards it. So essentially only 20% of us are truly happy where we are while...

When I went on a high school trip to Paris, my parents gave me a credit card to use for emergencies. 46 souvenir T-shirts and 5 bottles of perfume later, they took it back. Hey, the prices were in francs, OK? How was I supposed to know how much that costs in *real* money?

The agreement had been to pay them back, which I eventually did, of course. I learned some valuable lessons about credit, limits...