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What It's Really Like to Be a Barista
In this day and age, coffee is everything. It is something we drink to wake us up, something we have for a mid-morning rest break, something we drink when seeing friends. Millions of people enter coffee shops every day for hundreds of different reasons, but not many consider what it's like being on the other side of the bar.
By Sammy Tanner8 years ago in Journal
Maternity Leave for Self-Employed Women…
Women decide to go self-employed for a multitude of reasons, but one of the big ones is family. At the end of the day, being self-employed offers you a level of flexibility that full or part-time employment just can't compete with. Rather than having to make childcare fit around rigid working hours, being self-employed means you can fit your work around childcare and, straight away, this makes being a working mum 100 times simpler.
By Sarah Henderson8 years ago in Journal
Big Companies That Millennials Want to Work For
Most millennials are after more from their job hunt than just a fat paycheck. While being well compensated is nice (and appreciated), it isn't the determining factor when they decide to go after jobs. So, what are all these young people looking for?
By Carly Owens8 years ago in Journal
From Sports to Social
In 2015, I made one of the toughest decisions of my life. I decided to leave a really great job, a promising career, and a lot of people I loved for quite frankly all the wrong reasons; reasons I won’t go into too much depth here, but let me just say that leaving my job as a sports reporter at Inside Carolina, covering UNC athletics, has sincerely been one of my biggest regrets — a regret I’ve carried with me for almost three years now. I had a really good thing going in Chapel Hill covering UNC, but like any 20 something at the time, I also had a lot of impatience. After years of putting in work, I became restless and bitter watching people around me experience success I thought I too deserved. I mean I had given the industry of sports journalism almost four years of my life, when was it going to be my turn? It wasn’t fair and I just couldn’t stand it anymore. So I made a choice. I chose to move down to Atlanta and shift my career focus from sports journalism to social media.
By Dijana Kunovac8 years ago in Journal
Shop Talk
The barber shop is a place where you're supposed to get your hair cut, but also a place to come to relax, to get away from the kids, the wife, sit with the boys. But mostly, you're supposed to get your hair cut, and there's no reason that you shouldn't get a good haircut when you go to your regular shop, or at least the haircut that you want. I've been a barber for almost three years, and not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty good at it. In fact, I'd say the only people that get out of my chair dissatisfied are the ones that don't tell me what they want. And that's the secret of this article; you have got to talk to your barber when he asks you what kind of haircut you want.
By Tyler VanSyckle8 years ago in Journal
The Cost of a Dream
In September of 2017, I quit my job. It wasn't a high-powered job office that I needed a bunch of schooling and a minimum master's degree to acquire. I was a nanny. I still am, just extremely part-time. I have been a nanny for going on six years. I enjoy my job and I am very good at it. I used to work in Santa Monica for an affluent family. The kid I helped raise went to school with kids whose parents were celebrities, writers, directors, high-powered attorneys, and fashion designers. I spoke with and saw those parents on a daily basis. I was making great money and was even interviewing with families that were much richer than the one I currently worked for. At twenty six I was offered jobs that I would make $70,000 per year plus benefits, and if I were to work that job for a minimum of a year I would easily be wanted by families who would be happy to pay me that lucrative $100K that celebrity nannies make. I was on a quick path to living a nice life while being able to travel the world on someone else's dime.
By Page Rhodes8 years ago in Journal
