Posts Tagged ‘ Life ’

Dating a Colleague When Tenure Is Hanging In the Balance

Humans are animals, and will do anything to survive and continue the species: food, sex (love), and survival, that’s all we need and are instinctively hell-bent of the pursuit of those goals. As far as I’ve seen, only tenure can veer an otherwise intelligent human animal away from food, sex and survival[ READ MORE ]

Not A Real Life, Not A Real Job

For the love of all things holy, please do not aspire to this as it is not a valid career choice: Virtual Pet Owners Now Hiring Virtual Pet Sitters[ READ MORE ]

Ira Glass Explains Talent

And then Mr. Glass allowed three Roadtrip Nationers to interview him about career advice. His answers were honest, complex, and blew not one iota of sunshine up anyone’s arse[ READ MORE ]

How To Pull Yourself Up After Everything Falls Apart

If you’re a lucky bastard, this will only happen to you once or twice in your life: Everything will fall apart, either through your own doing or just because when the universe flings poo, it has to land somewhere and this time it hit you[ READ MORE ]

The Tremendous Time Suck of Relationships

Wondering which field of study will get you the most action with the least amount of foot work? The hard sciences. You heard me. [ READ MORE ]

Spring Balance

This may help to put it all in perspective for any higher-education seekers and providers who may be having a difficult time embracing Spring and letting go ever so slightly[ READ MORE ]

Triumphs and Failures

The other half of the time she can take a standard, taken-for-granted, black-and-white truth, flip it over, turn it inside out, and explain what’s really going on. And she’ll be right. [ READ MORE ]

Plan B: How to Salvage a Broken Work/School Day

There are days when one must finally succumb to reality and admit that despite the intense need and desire to beat the To Do List into submission, the day that was once full of productivity possibility is FUBAR to the fullest extent of that term and Plan B is the only viable option. [ READ MORE ]

“The Decade Google Made You Stupid”

Getting off on being alone to think about one item at a time made me L-A-M-E until this vindication-saturated article showed up. Ironically, I found it while multitasking on the Internet, but whatever. [ READ MORE ]