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Author: Imani Barbarin Source: The Muse As a disabled person, I have been kissed without permission, had my crutches grabbed from me, and been excluded from activities and invitations countless times. Growing up, it felt like I simply had to accept that this would be my life. I was so used to microaggressions that it …
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Author: Sophie Johnson Source: The Nest Remember that nasty teacher who was never happier than when she had a kid squirming in her sights? How about the time your parents left your older brother in charge and he fed you partially frozen fish sticks, hogged the remote and made you rub his feet? Wherever power …
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Author: Alyse Kalish Source: The Muse The first time I read Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, I was bopping around Asia with my dad between graduating college and starting my first job. It was perfect timing; about to begin a new chapter in my …
There’s no such thing as a job for life anymore. You're not even guaranteed that the type of job you pursue at the start of your career will exist later on.
Author: Danny Schreiber Source: Zapier The following is a detailed write-up of a popular productivity talk delivered by Scott Hanselman. Visit his blog, hanselman.com, for more productivity tips. "Don't worry, just drop the ball." This counterintuitive advice is one of a dozen-plus productivity practices preached by Scott Hanselman, a program manager at Microsoft, author and …
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Author: Erin Griffith Source: New York Times Never once at the start of my workweek — not in my morning coffee shop line; not in my crowded subway commute; not as I begin my bottomless inbox slog — have I paused, looked to the heavens and whispered: #ThankGodIt’sMonday. Apparently, that makes me a traitor to …
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Employees can be harassed in quite a variety of ways at work. While sexual harassment garners most of the attention, many non-sexual types of harassment can, and do, often occur on the job.
For most of us, childhood is kind of like a river, and we’re kind of like tadpoles.
Author: Abby Wolfe Source: The Muse I’d really rather not count the number of times in my career when I’ve been in a state of panic, getting caught up in one “crisis” after another. The page numbers in this presentation are wrong and it’s due today! We are doomed, absolutely doomed! Um, no, I can’t …
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor.”
