I took a salary job in 2020. Huge mistake. Up to that point in my life I had always been an hourly employee (with the exception of a graduate teaching assistant and paperboy, the latter of which was pay-per-house). Working salary for one year taught me a valuable lesson: I want to know what myContinue reading “Lessons learned from a salary job”
Category Archives: work culture
Where does work end and life begin?
I wish the above meme were more true—that we could compartmentalize our lives into one area or another. And, like it or not, a good portion of our lives—both private and professional, public and “friends-only”—involves social media. The murky distinction between private and public and between work and play is certainly an issue Miracle and IContinue reading “Where does work end and life begin?”
Privilege, luck, and work ethic
It’s really telling that the question of money is the very first thing to pop into folks’ minds when we tell them we are about to hit the road for 14 months. We have all of the United States rolled out in front of us like a wall-to-wall rug, the far reaches of Canada inContinue reading “Privilege, luck, and work ethic”
How many hours do you work?
It’s a fair question. The standard work week is 40 hours, but many of us—dare I say, most of us—put in far more than 40 hours to our jobs. To be clear, I am not talking about those of us who clock out and then stay at work or choose to go in early. ThatContinue reading “How many hours do you work?”
On the Road with Adie 