Private offices and their budget counterparts, the cubicle, are becoming less common as employers seek to increase opportunities for collaboration, decrease real estate foot prints, and keep employees from feeling trapped or isolated.

For clients who don't see themselves as the "cruise type," river cruising may be just the thing.

Within the travel industry, a growing group market is military reunion travel. According to the Alliance of Military Reunions, military group reunion travelers mostly served sometime from World War II through the late 1960s, are in their sixties and seventies, are usually retired, and are typically accompanied by spouses.

Forty percent of all active leisure travelers have taken at least one multigenerational trip in the past year, according to Preferred Hotel Group.

It may not be whom you know, but who knows you.

As an intelligent, educated, hardworking professional, you may think, "I've got it made."