In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...
Patric felt in his pocket for the small wooden box of Guatemalan worry dolls he had bought as a souvenir on his trip to the old country. Fitting two of ...
A retrospective of Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and Status Anxiety as a tie-in to Litro #115: Work. Continue Reading Nonfiction: Alain de ...
Prior to 2008, other generations claimed that Gen Y’s quarter-life crisis is dependent on the economic situation, that surely we would come to terms with the realities of the workplace ...
Cover photographs courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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Work. We all have to do it (unless we’re royalty, or very rich). We all spend many waking hours at it. But how do we really feel about it? For ...
Autumn in Paris; winter in Prague; spring in Amsterdam. It’s summer so here I am. I didn’t know if you would be here but I came anyway. When I fell ...
When I informed my father of my decision to cut down from full- to part-time employment, he was indignant: ‘If you aren’t going to bring home a proper wage, you’d ...
‘I thought I saw…’
She trailed off. The coffee machine gave a loud beep, jetting boiling mud-colour liquid into the cup below the nozzle and Jeanette risked a glance at the ...
I know how the world will end. Deep inside most people do. Despite lectures on strategic equilibrium and all the reassuring propaganda, we all know Eliot was wrong. The world ...
I mean, if I just stop thinking for a second and let the lack of silence wash over me, in what I imagine would be an orangey wave of dust ...
Gen Y isn’t the lazy, careless generation without a work ethic, as some employers perceive. Rather, there is a gap between the way Gen Y-ers want to be motivated, engaged ...
If someone were to draw a vertical line down a sheet of paper and write your name on one side and ‘Time” on the other, how would you score? Modern society ...
Side jobs and internships are useful, but still fall far from the experience of working. So what do aspiring professionals need to learn in order to bridge this gap? What ...
It’s not unusual to see fresh graduates job hunting again within six months of starting their first job. According to statistics, 1 in 5 graduates do this, and up to ...
Growing up, our parents told us, “You can do anything you want to do.” As a consequence, which we’ve either learned from them or have concluded ourselves, we don’t want ...
If we believe developmental psychologists (and why shouldn’t we), the events we see and experience in our early adolescent years shape us for the rest of our lives: how we ...
A while ago, I had a discussion with another Gen Y-er about the significance of different generations in the workforce. He claimed that everybody is unique (not surprising, since he ...
You may have been amused when your father had a midlife crisis – when he bought a leather jacket, started riding a motorbike and dating much younger women. However, if ...
