You have to mess up royally to get fired on Day One, but the reality is… it happens. We often talk about what compels people to walk out of a job interview or what has made people quit on the spot. However, if we haven’t experienced this already, one day we are going to find…
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Do you ever think about how in just a few short years, it’s become normal behavior — encouraged, even — to start recording with our front cameras and tell the world about the most intimate details of our life? While it didn’t come out of nowhere, it can occasionally seem that way. At least we…
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Good day, Lord of the Rings fans. Here’s a crazy factoid for you: across the written works of J. R. R. Tolkien that use this universe, there are apparently 982 different characters. That’s an obscene level of dedication to worldbuilding and lore, that clearly has produced a fandom devoted enough to figure these things out. …
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College kids learn life lessons the hard way. They learn that the metro stops running at some point in the night and that keeping up with your laundry is a full time job, but the hardest lessons college kids are forced to learn are in the kitchen. Nobody is a top-tier chef as a 20-something,…
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If you look through my texts with my parents, they are anything but dramatic. My mom sends me updates about her day and pictures of their golden retrievers acting the fool. My texts with my dad are probably less interesting than reading the phone book, and I don’t even think phone books exist anymore! He…
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Not every boss is serious and hard-working—some are so goofy, they barely get any work done at all. Much like the lovably cringe Michael Scott, the boss from “The Office,” these people had bosses who seemed to want to do anything other than work. Instead of leading a team, they’d rather try to be everyone’s…
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Sometimes my cat gets the zoomies and zips around the house and attacks the rug. I don’t know what the rug ever did to her, but boy does she give it the business. Maybe it’s a past-life thing. When I get the zoomies, I run around cleaning everything in sight, vacuuming with rigor, and wiping…
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Parenting is no walk in the park. It can be exhausting, emotionally draining, and often you’re just trying not to epically mess up. It’s also about optimizing, honing your routines, and finding the most efficient ways to get things done. Every second saved as a parent is crucial, so you’re fielding life hacks left and…
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