humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
If You Don't Feel Your Emotions, Where Do They Go?
Crying at Work is having a moment and I dig it! I recently, jokingly but maybe not, said to my supervisor, “I try to keep my desk-cries to about once a month…”
What I Learned from Being a Volunteer Firefighter for 20 Years
I learned that those ghosts have stayed with me. With some, I see their faces, with others, their injuries, and sometimes it’s the friends and family members that watched as we tried everything in our power to alter fate. The trauma I bore witness to over the years and the beautiful souls who passed in my presence and prior to our arrival stay with me.
Jennifer GriggPublished 5 years ago in JournalThe Ballad of a Boy with a Passion for Storytelling
December 22, 1998. It was a brisk Tuesday evening. I was born in Beth Israel Hospital, located in the Weequahic section of the South Ward in Newark, New Jersey. I was the third child of Helen Jackson and the first and only child of Maliki Yawmi-Deen Raymond.
savage writerPublished 5 years ago in JournalDear CEO
Dear CEO, You don't know me, but your decisions impact every part of my life. You decide where I get to live, what I get to eat, and whether or not I can afford to fix my car. This month you decided that I don’t need to pay my rent, which is why I am writing this letter.
A Working Woman in Progress
I recently read a study about how procrastination is correlated with low self-esteem. The act of putting off tasks is a result of a self-aggravating belief that the task you produce is representative of you as a person; you believe that your value is dictated by what you create, and in fear that you will make a mistake, you avoid actively completing your work or finding solutions to your problem.
Sarah HongPublished 5 years ago in JournalIt’s Above Me Now!
We can talk for days and hours - and yes even weeks and months - about "doing the right thing" when it comes to managing diversity in various settings. But will it pay off in "doing the right thing" when it counts (and of course, when the smartphone is videoing the encounter!)?
David WyldPublished 5 years ago in JournalJobless and Only Kinda Depressed
Some people spend their lives chasing goals. They’ll achieve something great and move right on to other greatness. I’m not one of them. I’ve had so few goals in my life. I wanted to do well on my AP tests in high school, at least the ones I thought I could do well on. I wanted to get into my first choice college. It was the only one I applied to fully, so that worked out. I wanted to graduate in June of 2014 and when that wasn’t going to pan out, I decided eh, 2014 at all is good enough. Then, I wanted to buy a house. So finally, here I sit, in the house I own, with my degree dated 2014 from that first choice college that the AP credits didn’t even end up counting into because actually taking the classes is way easier than taking some hard ass tests.
es .pennamePublished 5 years ago in JournalMarketable Downside
In today's job market, the qualifications or characteristics for most jobs are these... "Applicant must have good customer service skills."
Jay WilliamsPublished 5 years ago in JournalHow Having a Bad Boss Put Me $10,000 in Debt
Before I get started, I want to address the clickbait title. My boss at the time was only one ingredient in a cocktail of depressing life circumstances. However, the experience of working for a toxic person, in a toxic work environment is what loaded the gun. My income and personal choices is what pulled the trigger. At the end of the day, I am the person in the driver’s seat, so I am accountable for all that happened in the following story.
Dealing with Difficult Co-workers
I've always heard about dealing with difficult people in the workplace, and I have had to deal with people that I thought were difficult, but never in my life have I ever dealt with someone that I thought had something totally against me. This was an entirely new experience for me. I've been lucky enough to work with people throughout my lifetime that have been pleasant.
Brian AnonymousPublished 5 years ago in JournalI Love You, My Dear Career
Finding your career path should be the same as dating. Like we've come so far to improve the love department that we are able narrow down what we want in our potential life partner. Finding someone right for you isn't easy—like how they play it in the movies. Of course it's very simple to absorb what you see on TV and implement it to your real life. I guess you can say this is where we always go wrong. We observe what appears to be healthy and loving on the outside that we forget that movies have an end and the characters are portrayed by actors and second the couples we encounter in our everyday life are not going home with us every night. (I swear this ties in about career related things.)
Bethany RamosPublished 5 years ago in JournalTo the Man Who Burst into My Workplace and Yelled at Me
To the man who burst into my workplace and yelled at me, I am sorry that you and your son were unhappy with the haircut that I gave him; however, I would simply ask that for one moment you stop and consider my side and what I experienced before you tear me down.
Aubrie ThomasPublished 5 years ago in Journal