There are ways to broaden your horizons that will overlap with your career trajectory and possibly open new doors. Make yourself more interesting and resist complacency by taking up a new hobby such as running, filling in for someone on a job or reading a variety of genres and topics, suggests executive coach Alisa Cohn.

Research is being done into why it seems like the jerks of the office seem to get ahead. But study author Cameron Anderson, a professor of organizational behavior at University of California, Berkeley, says these people aren't getting ahead, "I think we notice those (people) much more than we do people in power who are nice -- those people kind of blend into the background."

Skilled tradespeople are aging out of the workforce, and their young replacements are in short supply due to the "ludicrous idea that the only path toward financial success includes a four-year college degree," writes Rusk Industries' Ken Rusk, a blue-collar entrepreneur. That idea must be put to rest, and Rusk adds, that "a blue-collar or skilled manufacturing career provides the opportunity to work hard, make a good living, and if you want, maybe even the opportunity to be your own boss."

Psychologists and neuroscientists are concerned there will be lasting effects from the social isolation of the shutdown, particularly an atrophy of social skills like what happens to hermits or prisoners. "The signs are everywhere: people oversharing on Zoom, overreacting or misconstruing one another's behavior, longing for but then not really enjoying contact with others," writes Kate Murphy.

Seventy-two percent of Fortune 500 companies provide paid parental leave -- in some form -- though fathers are generally considered secondary caregivers to mothers, according to a study from researchers at Ball State University and Davidson College. The Family and Medical Leave Act allows men to take unpaid leave to tend to an infant or family member, but many men do not take the time off because they can't afford it, says Haley Swenson, deputy director of the Better Life Lab at the think tank New America.

Median weekly US earnings rose by more than 10% during the second quarter on a year-over-year basis despite the unemployment rate's reaching 14.7% in April. That appears to be because lower-paid workers were more likely to lose their jobs, leaving more higher-paid workers in the data pool, according to a study.

A secret jet finally made its landing this weekend when Otto Aviation released the Celera 500L jet. The six-seater claims to get 18 to 25 miles-per-gallon fuel economy (compared to the 2-3 miles-per-gallon of a comparable jet aircraft), travel at speeds up to 460 mph and fly 4,500 miles on a tank -- which is a sixth of the hourly operating cost and with much less air pollution.