If you’re like most millennials, one of your primary needs is to know your work has purpose. But just how much of an impact are millennials really making? One of the primary vehicles for impact, the $107 billion online education industry, may be falling short. In an age where you can learn just about anything online, many young people are eager to share their wisdom through web-based courses. However, the average completion rate for online courses is just 7%.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan (Photo: Adam Berry/Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have started to make good on their pledge to give away 99% of their wealth to public-interest causes.

Shutterstock At what point do you become an adult? As a culture we’ve laid out milestones: graduating from formal education, moving in with a significant other or perhaps bringing new life into the world. Next question, how do we make the right choice when confronted with so many options? As children we relied on parents to be our compass, but as adults the responsibility rests within. Professor Robert T.

Dear Liz, I am not a supervisor at my job but a few months ago they sent me to interview training anyway. They want me to occasionally interview candidates for our department. I really liked the training. I sat through two fake and two real interviews within a few weeks of the training and they were great. I made recommendations on the two candidates that I met and my boss said my observations were right on target. Now one of those two candidates is my teammate, Sarah.

Dear Liz, I have a hard decision to make. I got laid off in April and I’ve been job-hunting since then. I got offered a very unsuitable entry-level job soon after I stopped working, and it was easy to turn that offer down. Since then, I’ve only had one other offer and it was a little harder to turn that down, because I was running out of money. I had to turn the offer down, though, because the commute would have killed me.

According to Time, I have 15 seconds to capture your attention before you decide to click away. In fact, a staggering 55% of you will spend less than 15 seconds on this page–or any web page, for that matter–before you continue browsing elsewhere. With 15 seconds being the average attention span of of a modern internet consumer, perhaps the greatest challenge facing entrepreneurs and business owners today is creating a website that stands out.

As a freelancer, you don’t have the luxury of a guaranteed monthly paycheck. You earn only as much as you get to work. Turns out, finding enough work is the biggest challenge for most freelancers. A research study jointly carried out by Freelancers Union and online staffing platform Elance discovered that finding new work and maintaining a stable income is a major challenge for freelancers.

Shutterstock “What I wouldn’t give for a moment of peace and calm.” This was the thought I had a few days ago on a particularly hectic day running errands, running my business, and parenting my four-and-a-half month old. Work and life pressures are intense for all of us today, and we have become a culture that is “addicted to busy.

The equipment financing market is one of those industries you rarely hear about in the press. Yet it’s also one of the largest industries in the world, with a $1.6 trillion market value. And $1.1 trillion of the equipment purchasing market is actually financed, which means other companies provide the capital to companies to make their purchases. For years this has been an industry that has coasted along without any real threat.

Shutterstock As the summer wanes, do you find yourself disgruntled about your current job, but wondering where you’ll find the time to hunt for a new one during the inevitable busy season that most industries head into when fall arrives? You’re not alone.