Why I will always hate working for other people.

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

Explaining the hiatus…

  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

Black Friday Strikes – For Living Wage and for #FergusonDecision

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

Part 4: The Apparatus, My Enemy & Other Choices

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,

Part 3: Did I get an interview with my local trade union?

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

New Yorker Problems

“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

Los Angeles Restaurants Pass Employee Healthcare Costs to Customers

***I’m very interested in innovative ways benefits are offered to the average worker.  This is a repost of a recent article review I wrote for a class I am currently taking. (Prof. Moyer – I’m not plagiarizing, promise!) ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: “The 3% Surcharge Catches On: The Lucques Group Introduces Healthcare For Employees”  http://www.laweekly.com/squidink/2014/09/02/the-3-surcharge-catches-on-the-lucques-group-introduces-healthcare-for-employees — As costs rise across industries, many employers struggle to find ways to increase employee satisfaction by

Part 2: How I prepared to enter the trades

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! Many of the women in my program arrived at this training program for the same reason: they couldn’t find good jobs anywhere.