It’s hard not to drop the laundry basket and ask, “What the hell am I doing here?”
jobs
hair
I’m trying to decide if I should just totally give up on making my curls look professional and like, marry my flat iron already.
unemployment
I spend most of my time trying to find a job. I would really prefer if we spent this social time discussing something else.
career
Like with all buzz-killing life truths, there comes a time to realize that you are not a 24-year-old editorial assistant anymore.
career
Forget "crying at work," try totally losing your mind on your co-workers!
career
The first in an occasional series I will do on career shit.
etsy
There are shit weeks with no sales at all. Then, you wake up and check your phone to see that some saint in the West Village ordered five gowns last night and paid your entire rent for the month.
ihtm contest
My favorite part of my internships hasn’t been the costumes, although I wish I could wear most of them every day. It’s the moments when I start talking to a little kid, and I see them become transfixed.
jobs
This is the story of how I stopped being a teacher.
jobs
I keep giving a ton of advice lately to kids about to leave college. Can you help me?
acrylic nails
For those of you already running to the comments to be like "Get a gel manicure silly!" I say, "BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT AND THERE IS NO AGONY SO EXQUISITE AS WHEN THAT MANICURE GROWS OUT AND YOU START CATCHING YOUR PUBES IN IT!"
career
Number 3: Wash your Damn Hair.
career
The second in an occasional series I will do on career shit.
gender
While my co-workers and I can have a dialogue about my identity and what I experience, I don't have time to take on the burden of educating each person that offends me throughout the day.
being inappropriate
It was the only time I've ever been fired, and I think it might have been worth it.
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Fun,
being inappropriate,
career,
fired,
it's fun to remember things,
job loss,
jobs,
worky work busy bee
Apr 17, 2012 at 5:00pm | 80 comments
welfare
It did take a long time to finally start earning a living wage. Much longer than I had anticipated. Moving from welfare to work didn’t happen overnight. It took years.
bosses
Offices without bitchy bosses are often sorely lacking in one critical element: FEAR.
career
I quit my lousy day job and I wrote this thing.
shoes
I am a really good fucking hostess and it is about 50% due to my choice of footwear.
career
I have had to tell people their breath stinks, their thong shows, their flatulence is making their office mate gag, and that their perfume smells like rotting cat food.
money
For five years, I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at my desk. The 12-hour days weren’t so bad–it was the ones that stretched into 14 hours that got to me
jobs
You may be surprised to hear that some of the most attractive, fit, funny people I’ve ever met worked at Marvel Comics. The first time I took a friend to my office, she whispered to me, “Why is everyone here so hot?”
