When I was seriously applying for jobs, I had a master's degree, and three combined years of experience, and it still took me 8 months to find a job in my field. My boyfriend graduated with a master's, with "real world" work experience, and a bunch of internships, and it took him over two years to find a job! He…

It helps, but it's not completely dependent on your socio-economic class. It's like that saying "the less luck you have, the more you have to work." If you do not naturally have the right connections, then you need work harder to make them. You need to go to professional organization meet ups and networking events,…

That has not been my experience. Employers certainly prefer someone who was able to score a more competitive paid internship, but they don't discount unpaid internships. I don't think it's that they don't count, I think it's that you're competing with people who have MORE relevant experience, and possibly more…

Unless they specifically say "post-college experience ONLY" or "no internship experiences!" apply anyway. I also work in humanities/government, and I had a bunch of student jobs/internship/volunteer experience when I was applying for jobs. I think I had one year of "real world" experience between college and grad…

My dad proposed by occasionally bringing it up in conversation such as this:

That guy looks like Kiera Knightly. The resembles is unnerving to me.

Indeed. Maybe they should consider cutting the salaries of some of the employees in their communications department who couldn't delay the "realignment" of only 300(?) employees to a time when any major employer who was knocking employees down to part-time was going to be accused of being anti-ACA. Like seriously, you…

I'm on Team Mermaid, but I am totally into there once being elves and dragons and all that shit.

I'm not even sure that our washers have separate compartments for the rinse, and I suspect lifting the lid will stop the cycle all together and I will lose all the quarters I paid to do my laundry. Would it work to just toss in the vinegar at the start?

Are there any ladies here who use men's razors to shave? I'm thinking about switching to harrys.com Truman razor.

Proraso soap is my favorite. I've been thinking about switching to a man's razor, specifically Harry's.

my guy loves using my Soak and Float shampoo bar, but it is probably the "manliest" smelling Lush product.

I've read about Charlie's and from what I understand, it's really ideal if you're not sharing a washer. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment building with communal (and very bad) washers and dryers.

unfortunately, I live in an apartment building the shittiest washers and dryers known to man.

I actually use dryer balls too (although I lost one). Those hedgehogs are too cute, and I might be enough of a sucker to get them.

My dermatologist diagnosed me with eczema this morning. I usually use only the fragrance free/sensitive skin, but lately my skin has been freaking out. I'm trying to replace everything I have with the most skin friendly stuff. Does anyone with skin issues have detergent and fabric softener recommendations?

I cannot stand having someone breath on the back of my neck. That's why I'm always big spoon.

Any suggestions for multi-destination trips? My partner and I want to travel from the east coast to west coast and then to the Southwest by train for Christmas. Are there any tips or tricks we should be aware of as we search for holiday time tickets? Also, what are the best Christmas travel days?

I'm actually still eating dairy (so I'm actually lacto-paleo), but I do try to reserve it more as a "treat" status, and opt for organic and cultured dairy products. But it might be worth trying to go off even more. Out of curiosity, do you avoid whey as well?

I started doing paleo about a month ago and I noticed that my skin cleared up a lot (although it's been slowly returning to some of its previous adult acne levels, but not to the same degree, and it might be related to the copper IUD I just had put in or just hormones). I attributed this to paleo being naturally very…