FACT: Artists need money to make art. Not only are the up-front costs for materials and space a constant and immediate concern, but sometimes artists like to eat food. And live in homes with walls and running water. Lofty goals, I know, but it is a career – a life really – that requires insane…
At the tender age of 27, Dr. Yasmine Daniels is an entrepreneur, a laboratory Chemist, and a Professor at the City University of New York. Dr. Daniels is an accomplished millennial that is both fierce and fearless. Miss…
Professional fields weren’t always open to women. The roles of women in the workforce would change dramatically after the second World War. Economic need and confronting societal norms would play a huge part in the amount of shifts women would see as they entered male-centric fields. Since most of Americas workforce had excluded women from…
Choosing the right dress for a work holiday party can be tricky, but I’ve decided to take that headache of searching away from you. Instead, I’ve created the following list of holiday party dresses perfect for all work environments. So whether it’s for a business office or a fashion magazine holiday party, you’ll find that…
Nowadays, nailing an interview is no easy feat, regardless of the job or internship applied for and the required level of experience. After perfecting your resume and receiving that first call, your typical plan of attack will likely include researching the company, rehearsing answers to the most common interview questions, choosing a professional outfit and…
Most of us live a fairly mundane, uneventful life, don’t we? Sure, we might occasionally push the boat out and throw a wild party or travel somewhere exciting, but we don’t expect weird things to ever happen to us. It’s true that you probably won’t ever suffer anything drastically weird in your lifetime, but some…
There was this fight over money between us. It wasn’t an overt fight—we weren’t screamers and we didn’t like to argue—but it was there, permeating the room all the time like a poisonous gas, sightless and scentless but lethal just the same. It infected everything. It was a silent-treatment standoff of a fight over who…
Katie Walker is a 29-year-old Cleveland, Ohio native. She is an up and coming playwright, and she teaches English at a business school. We met up for coffee on one of the last warm, autumn Ohio afternoons. Katie’s recently published play entitled Ohio is for Zombies is available on Amazon in print, or as a…
There is an inherent paradox in the nature of vocational education and its impact on employ-ability both here in Canada and around the world. This situation finds its representation in the fact that employers require high standards of formal education on the thousands of prospective employees, and yet the same companies spend thousands of dollars…