I am never bored. A staffer's suggestion led to the station's popular Today show-inspired morning format, which often draws celebrities who hock their wares and then spend time with employees. Billy Blanks will do free workouts. You get to meet a lot of different people. Then, of course, there's that 30 percent discount on on-air merchandise and at the company store.
Some designers travel regularly to Europe and Asia on scouting trips.
Jahnke was an enthusiastic, freshly minted Swarthmore graduate when he went job-hunting at Electronic Ink, which designs websites and researches other interactive projects. He was hired despite his lack of tech experience, says co-founder Johanna Hambrose. It's corporate, but with an edge. Around for 10 years, the company is no flash in the pan, and has attracted clients like the New York Stock Exchange and Reuters. The staff is made up mostly of technologists, designers and psychologists, who determine through market research and psych evaluations how a client should provide its customers with what they need.