Unemployed and Uplifted by Strangers
Lost in my job hunt For several months, I have consistently scoured LinkedIn and other job posting sites for a variety of available roles. During my senior year of college,...
In a large hotel conference room speckled with round tables, I drank my lukewarm coffee and listened to my colleague...
Don’t you utilize, monopolize, or anthropomorphize me According to our saintly and ever-correct oracle the Internet, the word ‘employment’ has...
Amongst humanities graduate students, especially literature students, there is a joke that grad school will kill one’s passion for reading....
My name is Jordan, and I am a music addict The other day, someone asked me to list five albums...
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‘That’ customer in me I feel the need to start by saying: we have all been the rude customer at some point — myself included. The last time I felt...
“Are you just going to stand there without saying anything?” That was what someone in the crowd blurted out when I stood on the stage, frozen for over three minutes,...
A night owl by trade The whole thing was surreal and dreamlike. Sitting in a worn leather armchair, observation minutes in hand, keeping as quiet as possible, I was working...
Discovering my voice through writing was surprisingly found in the silence of the process itself. Since childhood, I have always had a natural connection with people, and talking to others...
Really, where is this match-made-in-heaven? With the ever-increasing population comes a decrease in resources. Or will the next baby be the genius who solves hunger, poverty, cancer, pollution, dry skin,...
Teaching in a school and pay lags are forever associated. I am an education officer serving as a mathematics teacher in one of the government high schools here in Nigeria. ...
“So, you’re a pro at this. You know what you need to do.” My therapist was trying her best to cheer me up amidst a shitstorm — our country falling...
A Hard Day’s Night It was a Thursday. The New Friday. The penultimate day of the working week. Not just any working week, either: my first working week earning a...
Life and career in a funk? Find your rhythm or change it up Self-improvement? It was a dark and stormy night, but let me say something first. I struggle with...
I’d like to tell you the story of a young boy named Wylie Sowden. The beginning of the story Wylie was brought into the world on a cold October morning...
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What do unemployed writers do? They keep themselves occupied by working on their writing and honing their skills. I know this because my current status is “unemployed writer.” This is...
I am staring at a beautiful sunset over the Puglian shoreline, with a singer passionately belting out his heart. His voice echoes throughout the resort where I am staying. Sono...
My name is Tiessouma Pare and this is my education through chaos. It all started that October of 2009. I had just joined my first year at the University of...
We learn valuable life lessons the hard way. In 2018, as I proudly stepped out of my final year of high school, little did I know that the journey ahead...