Remember the good old days when resumes were postmarked and resignation letters were handed over in person? Technology has sped up the way we land, keep and lose our jobs but it's also given birth to some wildly famous cautionary tales. For what not to do in work's 2.0 era, take a lesson from the world's biggest job fails. -- By Piper Weiss, Shine staff

If you watch enough reality TV, political debates or just follow the lead stories in the news - you come to believe that hate sells. You would be right. Hate like violence is fascinating to watch, from a distance.

Take crime shows. You wouldn't want to be in the middle of a CSI crime scene, but it sure is fascinating to watch murder and violence on TV.

Scathing, scorched earth rhetoric accompanied by down and dirty destruction is absolutely compelling, as long as you're not the one being ripped or ripped off.

Case in point: house inspector Mike Holmes' HGTV show. He goes in to a damaged home and rips apart the reputation of the first house inspector. The first guy must have been a total idiot or worse, because Mike finds mold, water damage and assorted critters living among the debris behind the walls of homes sold to the duped or dim buyers. You're awash with shock and misery about dangerous wiring and icy cold basements and heartened when Mike demolishes someone else's

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Despite the bad economy, have you noticed a lot of your friends still seem to be out of town? That's right, plenty of Americans are still traveling this summer - and we were curious to find out exactly where they were spending their money. Luckily, our friends at Citi did a little of their own research to find out where their customers were jetting off. Check out these money-saving travel strategies, and where savvy travelers are discovering the best vacation deals!

Article by Catherine McManus - Women & Co. - July 16th 2012

Summer travel season is in full swing. According to a forecast from Airlines for America (A4A), an average of 2.24 million people will fly each day this season on U.S. airlines. But where are they all going?

To get a sneak peek at some of this summer's most popular destinations*, I sat down with the travel team at Citi Cards, who shared some of the season's biggest travel trends:

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Six ways to beat the stress of buying a homeDEATH, DIVORCE & MOVING are the three most stressful experiences in life. There are two very different kinds of needs that people have while moving. First there are the transactional needs, like finding the home that is just right for them, finding a seller who is realistic, negotiating the price, filling out the paperwork, handling the closing, and arranging for the move. But there are also emotional needs that are involved when moving, and this is where the biggest stress comes in.

Read:Top Eight Things That Are Killing Your Budget

Any competent sales representative will handle the transactional needs for you, but if your emotional needs are unfulfilled, you'll be frustrated and may not act in your own best interests. The ideal real estate sales representative is one, who is competent with paperwork and numbers, but can also guide, direct, and counsel you through the emotional ups and downs of moving. Here are the six best ways we've found to beat the stress.

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One in four working women gained weight on the job in a single year, according to a recent study by the International Journal of Obesity. It’s entirely possible that – yes, your job is making you fat. Ugh, the last thing us ladies want to hear - we have enough challenges when it comes to managing our appearance, thank you very much!  Well don’t fret. Fitness Magazine’s Executive Editor Pam O’Brien joined us at “The Shine” to tell us the reasons behind all of this, and, most importantly, what smart changes we can make to avoid weight gain at work.

Sell your old jewelry for cashThe old practice of hocking personal belongings to get cash fast - a.k.a. pawning - is on the uptick, no doubt due to the hot reality show Pawn Stars, which documents the doings at a Las Vegas shop. But that series usually focuses on rare finds that are sold for a flat fee, not pawned. The real heart of pawning is short-term "safety net" loans for more ordinary items. Here's how it usually works (no matter what The Old Man might do on TV): You bring in your item, the pawnbroker makes an offer, and then - after some negotiation - he gives you cash. If you want to get your item back, you have a set time period (often 30 days) to repay the loan with interest. Do so on time, and you'll get your item back. Default on the loan, and the prize goes to the pawnbroker - who then has the right to sell it. What's more, there's now a whole online pawning industry for people who don't want to set foot in a pawnshop. Either way, you have to learn the ropes so you won't sell yourself short:

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