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[caption id="attachment_14525" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Major indicators of the US job market have pointed to a potentially alarming trend in the last few months: A mismatch between open positions and skilled workers. Essentially, while employers are creating jobs and workers are taking jobs, there's still a fundamental skills gap that exists.

[caption id="attachment_14555" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption]   Whether you're embarking on a new career or happy in your current one, everyone needs the occasional kick-in-the-pants when it comes to getting motivated. Each week, CreativeLive will round up our favorite pieces of advice from experts in every field –– be it art, design, fashion or business.

[caption id="attachment_14433" align="alignnone" width="620"] Via Flickr[/caption] There's something about the Halnaker Windmill – and it's not just the fact that it's literal centuries old. The iconic landmark, which served as a flour mill and a WWII lookout station, is located in Sussex, England, and, in addition to its long and storied history, is also just exceptionally beautiful.

[caption id="attachment_14395" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Metal zine cover via Send Back My Stamps. [/caption] Metal kids growing up nowadays have it easy.

[caption id="attachment_14366" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] Sylvia Plath said, “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Senior portraits are a right of passage for many American teens – even your CreativeLive staffers, who have graciously agreed to share theirs. This isn't the first time (Senior Communications Manager Whitney Ricketts let us use this one as an example of an awkward, bygone composite concept), but it's definitely the most comprehensive.

[caption id="attachment_14494" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] At this time last year, I was working for myself and had just gotten back from a lucrative trade show in Las Vegas. Our custom phone case making equipment was selling as quickly as we could keep it in stock, and we were crossing $160,000 in revenue in less than one year of being in business.