What’s the hardest thing about being a parent? Well, there’s the leveling up as a human to care for someone more than ourselves. The ungodly amount of snack preparation. The profound sleeplessness. And the insane vulnerability of caring for another person knowing you could screw it all up....
When the worst of the worst happens to you, what happens to your job? We’re talking about things like cancer, horrific injury or some other catastrophic, terrible turn of events that keeps you away from your job for the long term. In other words, the times when...
One of the most stressful moments in life is surely the Dreaded Job Interview (let’s not even get into video job interviews, in which your road is paved — or not — via iPad). Even more so than the exit interview, the whole endeavor is a charade of glass-half-full answers and...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
You’ve been saving plenty of money for retirement, haven’t you? Yeah… me neither. That tropical private island I assumed I’d own someday? Probably not happening! Never mind living like a baller in retirement age. At this point, I’m more worried about just having enough money to subsist...
Every workplace has a name for them: The kind and virtuous majorette who regularly takes one for the team, goes that extra mile, is a dutiful, dependable, delightful co-worker — and gets roundly scorned for their trouble. For the singing Salzburg nuns trying to solve a problem like an...
Our hardworking society oftentimes encourages workers to choose between their careers and their significant others. After all, to your CEO, less time spent with your partner is more time spent at your desk. Which presents the question: When should you choose work over your relationship? Relationships expert...
Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators, so it’s no wonder sitting sedentary in a halogen-lit office is ruining the species. But it’s not just your lower back and general outlook on life slowly being crippled by your 9-to-5. It’s also your butt. Hemorrhoids. Irritation....
Unfortunately, there are no puberty-adjacent symptoms that correspond with getting your life together. You don’t start growing hair under your arms when it’s time to quit trying to make it as an actor, and you probably don’t start throwing temper tantrums at your parents when it’s time to buy...
“Death by memo”: It’s a complaint often heard in the workplace, when great ideas get stomped into dust by numbing protocols and procedure. But for all its reputation as the last word in banal bureaucratic buzz-kill, the internal memorandum has often, in its history, carried actual life-or-death...
Americans have finally gotten the memo to take more vacation, but they’re still doing it wrong. Recent research from Project: Time Off finds that we are at peak vacation usage, the likes of which haven’t been seen since 2010. In 2017, we took an average of 17...
If there’s one thing all humans can agree on, it’s that washing the dishes is miserable. So much so, in fact, that many professional dishwashers admit that the only way to get through their shifts is to get messed up first. “I’ve been washing dishes for 3 years...