If you are starting out or considering a career change, does the following appeal - learning another language (or three), travelling and working abroad to understand things from different cultural angles, putting yourself in other people's shoes and thinking 'what's in it for me?'

In my travels, I've discovered that you cannot go anywhere without the US presidential elections popping up in the conversation, even in seemingly unrelated topics or circumstances.

A quarter of U.S. workers complain of working in gloomy environments that they say could be improved with windows that open or better-looking colleagues, according to a survey released on Wednesday.