You Might As Well Do What You Love

When Wall Street crashed and jobs once considered most secure were lost, many gave up on business and law and decided to do what they love. It's the age-old choice between humanities and the sciences. Patricia Cohen wrote about the choice for The New York Times:
"Terry Shtob, the director of liberal arts at N.Y.U.'s continuing education school, said enrollment in arts and humanities programs for this fall grew 5 percent from last fall.
Many of those enrolled turned out to be laid-off Wall Street workers who were eligible for emergency retraining grants from the government. Ms. Shtob said her impression, after speaking to a few students, was that they had originally chosen careers in fields like business and law primarily because they felt those were financially secure. When that turned out not to be case, she said, they decided, 'I might as well do what I love.'"
It reminds me of Marsha Sinetar's book, "Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow."
Which did you choose? Sciences or arts? Which would you choose today?

Amazon Mom Could Save You Money

If you already buy diapers, wipes and other gear at Amazon.com, a program called Amazon Mom has launched aimed at saving you even more. If you use the program Subscribe & Save where those items are shipped to you on a recurring basis, you already save 15 percent and get free shipping. With this program (which is free to join, by the way) you get an additional 15 percent savings on top of that.

You also get a free Amazon Prime membership for three months and they'll tack on an additional month for every $25 you spend in the baby area. For those of you who use Amazon Prime, this could pay for your membership in that program which normally costs $79 per year. I'm a bit of a procrastinator myself, so I love that I can run to the computer and get something I'm almost out of to my door in 2 days, it's just very hard for me to justify that yearly fee.

Of course, you'll also get oodles of emails with other offers and you know they're hoping you can't resist a discount. These benefits also don't apply to everything in the baby area and not all diapers and wipes qualify for the extra discount. Still, it could be a good program for those who want to save a buck and don't mind a few more bits in your inbox. It's free, so why not? If you've enrolled in the program, come back by and let us know if it's worth it or not.