Big high fives go out to REI today. I was so excited to read the announcement that the co-op will be closed on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, they are encouraging their employees and their customers to spend the day outdoors, and I'm pretty sure camping in tents in line outside of a … Continue reading #optoutside
Tomorrow, October 16 is Boss's Day, and for the occasion, I bought my new boss some flowers. Eh, who am I kidding, I never really need a good excuse to buy flowers. At least not when beauties like these are just lingering around Trader Joe's, flashing their electric blue loveliness my way. I'll tell you what … Continue reading Happy Boss’s Day
I took Harper and Elliot to the dentist last week and as I filled out their new patient paperwork, I found myself having to ad-lib an answer in the blank space after employed by. It may have been a foreseeable thing but for some reason, I was kind of blindsided in seeing the empty box … Continue reading I’ve got a Blank Space
Have you guys seen the Workologist column in the Sunday New York Times? I just spotted it for the first time last weekend. It's like a "Dear Abby" column offering "Friendly advice on any workplace conundrum, large or small." I read through a few like, Self-Promotion but With Self-Respect, Declining a Work Assignment, With Finesse, and Scrutinizing an Employee's Suspicious Sick … Continue reading The Workologist
I had already weighed out my worries and concerns. I debated and examined each issue to exhaustion and I made the decision with Jim that if working part-time wasn’t an option, I would quit. I knew this was the right decision. But that decision needed a strong defense against my raging self-doubt - that emotional resistance that would amplify its volume at 2:30 in the morning alongside my teething toddler.
When I decided to quit my job, the one question that continued to give me anxiety was, what am I going to tell my daughters, Harper and Elliot? I prided myself on my ability to divide my time between home and work and that I was able to demonstrate by example what it was to … Continue reading The beginning
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