Surviving the Work-Travel Hybrid

I spent this past week at a work offsite in Minnesota. I should also add that I spent the better half of last weekend apprehensive and anxious about the prospect of leaving my husband for 4 full days. While some spouses may relish in the time away, my husband and I have become more and [...]

Motivation Matters

Being that my quasi-new magazine crush-du-jour is Entrepreneur, I happened to be eye strolling through some posts online, when I came across a feel-good, albeit spot-on post by David Javitch about the right way to motivate employees.
One of the key points relevant for workerbiatches: If you are a manager or employer, don’t assume that just [...]

Working in my PJs Does Appeal to Me: Home-Based Businesses Anyone?

This month’s Entrepreneur has an interesting article about starting a home-based franchise business. While most of the franchises in their top 101 list seem to be cleaning businesses and overall, the list did little entice me into jump-starting my own franchise-specific savings account, it does beg the question if working in your skivvies is ultimately [...]

If I’m So Tough Why Can’t I Speak Money?

I pride myself on being direct and being experienced enough as a freelancer to know better. So why do I find it so difficult to bring up the dreaded topic of money and billing rates especially when I’ve already submitted a proposal to a client and go the extra step of doing initial exploratory work [...]

This Kid Stays in the Game

There was something darn right inspirational about watching Celtics captain Paul Pierce recover from a knee injury in the 3rd quarter of the 1st game of the NBA playoffs last night. At the first half of the quarter, moments after his fall, his condition was so severe that he had to be carried to a [...]

We’re Gross

Let’s face it. We don’t really need a phone, a BB, an IM service, a wiki (or the equivalent of an online file sharing repository where we can leave even more verbal vestiges of our daily excess), and several email accounts. We’re polluting our networks and our cable providers with unnecessary clutter and maxing out [...]

Introductory Post: So Much For Adulation

I got the idea for this blog when I started tabulating all the hours I bank bitching about my job. I wanted to turn over a new chapter in what had become a rather tedious, I‘m sick of hearing myself vent non-stop existence and so I resorted to the one hobby I’d made an actual [...]