Right now, I have the privilege to pursue my creative writing again. Since your girl has neither a trust fund nor sugardaddy, I’ll still need to work for a sustainable income. In order to make this commitment to myself, I have internalized the reasons why I will always prioritize flexible, remote economic work situations to buttress the REAL work and actual building I hope to accomplish for 2020. I don’t measure
*** Interested in receiving $40 Getaround rental vouchers/coupons from me? Keep scrolling! For an auto-less driver, one of the best discoveries of 2019 was having my friend, Jess, put me on to Getaround. One day in D.C., we reallllly wanted to use a Groupon we found for a nearby Korean spa in the suburbs, but we had NO CAR. In showing true human ingenuity, Jess racked her brain until
Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Hanalei and I am poorly privileged. (HI, HANALEI!) A lot of life has happened since my last post in 2014, and a lot of me has changed since the inception of RecessionFresh as a concept. Things in my personal and professional life, as well as my perspective, have monumentally shifted and after some evaluation and reprioritization, I realize this content is
PHOTO: JONATHAN ALCORN/REUTERS This year, Black Friday sales dropped 11% nationally. While we can’t pinpoint the exact reason why this happened, two very significant events occurred on this shopping day, which contributed to the decrease. First, thousands of workers across the U.S. faced off against Walmart on Black Friday. The Black Friday Protests were orchestrated by workers and the United Food & Commercial Workers International. They demanded to raise the minimum wage to
I’ve recently found Kapitalust, and I really like the writing. Check out this recent entry on how the author paid off $54,000 in debt in about 2 years. Check out the very helpful table found in the original entry:
My intention for this post is to share my experience, and for it to serve as a reference point/resource for women interested in entering the trades. This is continued series, so I hope you find some portion of this helpful! See all parts at this link: CLICK HERE – h! There was absolutely no way to prepare for the aptitude test. Any Google search lead you to nothing – no study guides,
My intention for this post is to share my experience, and for it to serve as a reference point/resource for women interested in entering the trades. This is continued series, so I hope you find some portion of this helpful! See all parts at this link: CLICK HERE – h! After waiting for months, I finally received a letter from the local, inviting me to interview. I was pretty excited! When I decided
“If they raise the subway fare one more time, I’m going to explode. I’m making nine dollars an hour. I walk home three hours from work every day to save that $2.50, because that’s a half gallon of milk for me and my daughter. And every time they raise the fare, they have a ‘hearing.’ But they aren’t hearing anything. It’s a fucking joke. If you go to one of
A simple infographic that I found online, comparing the rate of exploitation of American workers with other countries’. I was pretty surprised that the ratio was still pretty large for Norway.
A cool supplement to the “Snapshot, Elsewhere” series. Some of us are visual learners, after all… View Snapshots, Elsewhere in a larger map