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Your Work Counts
Do a little dirty math. You’ll realize you do a heck of a lot.
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It Doesn’t Take Much to Feel Fulfilled
Life satisfaction is closer than one might think.
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Nineteen Years a Bridgetender
Tempus certainly does fugit, doesn’t it?
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Flexible Schedules
I’m someone who thrives on stability and routine. This would not be for me.
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One of the Guys
Most of my life, I’ve toiled in male-dominated fields.
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Beware Abundance
I absolutely love buffets, so I try to avoid them. I am frugal by nature, so when I’m charged a fixed price in an all you can eat situation, I tend to try to get my money’s worth. In other words, I gorge myself. I don’t think I’ve ever left a buffet without feeling slightly…
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Exhausto-Day
To say I have a really screwed up work schedule is putting it mildly. Part of the week I work swing shift, and then, to make life interesting, I switch over to day shift. That means that there’s one day where I only get about 5 hours of sleep between shifts. Needless to say, by…
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Mental Health Days
Raise your hand if you’ve NEVER, not even once, called in sick to work or school when you’re weren’t technically sick. Anyone? Anyone? (I didn’t think so.) Back before I was a bridgetender, I pretty much hated every job I had. And I called in sick a lot. Of course, I was younger then, and…
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“I Don’t Consider Myself a Feminist”
I always cringe when a female says that. A friend of mine said it recently, and it nearly broke my heart. She referred me to Judge Judy, who, according to this article, says, “I never felt I didn’t have equal opportunity as a woman.” But in that same article Judge Judy admits that there were…
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Working a Tropical Storm
We’ve had our fair share of natural disasters this year. But when you pair that with an increasing disregard for workers, you get a toxic combination. People are getting fired for having to mandatorily evacuate and therefore being unable to show up for work. People have been forced to work in extremely unsafe situations, leaving…