This person is the perfect example of modern American conservatism. She’s a liar. Nothing she said is based in fact. Does she believe her own lies? Maybe. Maybe she is that delusional. It’s all still a lie. And this is where we are now. The right will say absolutely any bullshit to further their fascist worldview. All…

Bingo. Karen has became an acceptable way for people of every sociopolitical persuasion to express their misogyny in an environment that will validate them.

Ugh, same. Government desk job without much direction or purpose. Being led into the cubicle for the first time felt like a prison sentence, knowing I would be sitting and staring at the same space 40hrs/week for the foreseeable future. I promised myself I would do it for 3 years and lasted for 3.5, but have since…

Betsy is right, many non-profits rely on grant money, and getting grants means writing grant applications. Looks like you’d be a valuable to many different non-profits with your skill set.

Holidays are the worst because even having three days off in a row is so refreshing but, oh wait, you then have to strategically use your PTO for the rest of the year, all of the other holidays are lame and bad, and you’re tied to 40+ hours a week of work for the foreseeable future. This country needs mandated…

Okay, so Hilaria isn’t “from” Spain so much as she vacationed there a lot over the years with her also American born & raised parents? Is that the gist of it? Was she ever in Spain for months at a time? Did she visit over the course of her whole childhood/teen years? Go to school there ever? I’m really don’t know, I…

This Hilaria stuff is so fascinating. Like, girl...?

Enjoy your freedom and try not to be jealous.  

it’s not just our work culture.   Part of the reason unemployment is so destabilizing everywhere is that people who aren’t stimulated actually have a lot of  problems.

Thank you.

I was a SAHM for 10 years too! When I went back to work I challenged myself to try a role in a completely different industry and HATED IT. Tried another position doing what I used to do pre-kids. Hated it.

If it makes you feel any better, as a single woman in my mid-30s who has no choice but to work (even though I actually like my job), I find myself jealous of people who are able to drop out of the workforce because their partner can support them financially. Hell, I find myself jealous of people with a partner…

Another yes to volunteering! One of the things that I miss amidst the pandemic was the local professional ballet company’s production of Nutcracker where I would put in hours of uncompensated “labor” to set up, decorate, usher, work the sales boutique, and plan an afternoon luncheon prior to one of the matinee…

I have been thinking a lot about Marx and alienation lately. I worked in marketing for about six months and hated it so badly that it sent me back to grad school—I am one of the only people I know who didn’t fully hate my PhD (I also got academic work, so there’s that) and part of this was finally feeling like I was…

We joke in my house that volunteering is my second career, but it’s kind of true. My job is rewarding and pays well, but requires <40 hours/week (now that we’re not in the office anymore, it’s WAY less). That’s opened me up for all kinds of volunteering work that I really enjoy- stuff that I think is important, AND I…

I know a lot of literacy programs are always looking for volunteers. I bet you'd be awesome at it with your writing background.

Volunteer doing something you love! I dream of retiring and being a baby-cuddler or animal shelter-petter.

Your story makes me think of the 9-11 videos with those swirling clouds of paperwork that subsequently blanketed the streets of Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. Even then I wondered at the vast amount of human labor that went into creating all those papers. How much of it was important? How much just dreary busy…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is right. JK Rowling is not transphobic. Anyone who *actually* read her personal essay would know this.https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

Adichie’s words, in the Guardian piece, seem to be aimed more at cancel culture than anything else.  But by all means, go ahead and drag her for writing We Should All Be Feminists.