Let's talk salary

Or maybe not. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

I hope you had a good weekend. I spent a bit of mine going through the nearly 200 replies I got to my recent comment thread about how to find a dream job or start a business after age 40 or 50 (or more). Actually, Thomas is going to help me go through and organize what we have, later today.

This got me thinking about all the intricate negotiations that go on whenever anyone interviews for a job, no matter what their age (or what the general climate is like, or what the job is, for that matter).

As it happens, I’d recently read an interesting post on one aspect of this from a recruiter: How to handle salary negotiations, especially if the other side brings the subject up early.

I asked for permission to share in full, with attribution of course. But for whatever reason, the recruiter asked me to post it without a byline. (Maybe people will think it’s more controversial than I did?)

So, here it is. Afterward, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts:

Someone was asking me how to answer the, “…