Sunday links

[Originally posted on what used to be a separate blog 'On jobs, work and careers' and later was merged into this blog.]

• Mashable.com: 70+ Tools For Job Hunting 2.0
• Paul Graham: How to Make Wealth:
  

  Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast.

• Free Exchange blog at The Economist: Sick man no more: the German economy and labour market is recovering:
  

  Germany is indeed waking from its sclerotic slumbers and might post a growth rate of 3% in 2007. That would more than double the 1995 to 2005 average growth rate of 1.4%, and could even exceed expected American and British 2007 growth numbers.