Category: Work and Careers

Work and Careers

How To Do What You Love When School Has Taught You To Regard Work as an Unpleasant Duty

Work can literally be fun — fun like playing. Every night, an expensive SUV drops my friend in front of her home and picks her up every morning. Anyone looking at my friend’s life would find no problem. After all, the company she works for pays her well and she even has a personal chauffeur …

Work and Careers

I Owe 8-Years of Career Success to Doing Work I Love

Career success does not equal career duress. I love teaching and training others. It’s both a constant joy and a challenge. I earned every penny my 8-year teaching career provided for me because no one had to dangle a fat salary in front of me to compel me to go the extra mile. Too many …

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It’s Possible to Have a Full-Time Job and a Full Personal Life

6 ways you can make the most of your time to find balance If tomorrow is my last day on earth, my life would end full — I have friends, family, and a rich personal life that I cultivated through the years. But for a long time, I had no personal life. My family and …

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Wake Your 15-Year-Old Self Up: The Best Advice to Make Your Dreams a Reality

Dare to walk toward your dreams. “What I am is good enough if only I would only be it openly.” — Carl Rogers From the time my mom gave me a copy of Little Women, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I was 8 when I started devouring books left and right. While …