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Workplace witticisms, job jokes and career quips; who says work can't be a laughing matter?

How I Find the Will to Believe in My Creative Self Even Though I am Trapped in this Hell-scape We Call Reality.
I just went to Kathryn Milewski's Vocal page and.....damn. Kathryn Milewski is incredibly talented. She's won many challenges, and for good reason: her prose is honest, relatable, and vocal enough - if you will - to earn its place on this platform. I subscribed right away.
By Emily Aslin5 years ago in Journal
Renaissance Festival War Stories Aug 21/22, 2021
Aug 21/22, 2021 It's been 692 days since closing cannon in 2019. I am so excited. It's Christmas morning. I have collected 125 four-leafed clovers this spring and summer. I have around 70-80 or so left to give away as fest favors. It was my husband's idea to do so. I wasn't sure how to determine how or who would receive them.
By Tinka Boudit She/Her5 years ago in Journal
I Want A Foreign Friend (Human)
A friend who can talk shamelessly is one of the most favorite of my list. But l can't inscribe it if l can't be first to do so. You know l like friend being easygoing and l want the human being to talk too much.
By Nitu Howlader5 years ago in Journal
The air is good today
I love it when the wind is cool, and when the sun shines, but not too harshly. I walk into the kitchen and smell the air and it has a certain scent which I cannot describe, but just know that it gives me goosebumps, it fills me with a softness, as gentle as a woman's touch. If comforts me and loves me, it doesn’t make love to me, but it just loves me.
By Kamil Jan Bazan5 years ago in Journal
What a Bird
There was a bird outside my window this morning. It was a bit before 6am, my alarm still 20 minutes from waking the dogs, when the persistent noise pierced the veil of sleep.
By Dawn Harper5 years ago in Journal
The Love that Eludes Us
It all started on a paint-chipped park bench. I’d walk along the rows of pine trees for twenty minutes searching for the thickest, straightest stick I could find to hand to grandpa.
By Lexxie5 years ago in Journal
The anti-social, social group
The recruitment In 2019, while on a visit to the city I grew up in, I ran into a former grade school classmate whom I had not seen in many years. After a quick exchange of pleasantries, phone contacts and promises to keep in touch, he informed me that our former high school classmates had a WhatsApp group. Considering I left this school after middle school, this information did not excite me. As we were about to part ways and return to our individual existences, he quickly produced his cell phone and informed me he had added me to the group; this still did not excite me.
By Dwayne Adderley MBA5 years ago in Journal
Why I Will Never Make Any Money Writing
Yep, I suck at writing If you are anything like me (trust me, you are not), then you suck at writing. That said, just because you suck at something doesn’t mean you can’t make shit tons of cash by doing it. Look at this very website. There are a few truly great writers who regularly contribute, some pretty darn good ones, a few more OK ones, a shit ton of average or below average ones, and the remaining who probably make up just over 51% of the writing population here, the terrible, horrible, downright craptastic ones. Oh, and then there’s me. I will leave it to the reader to decide where I fit in on that sliding scale of trainwreckage, but that is really beside the point. The point is that there are a boatload of writers in that 51% who are making gobs and gobs of cash by writing. Yep, you read that correctly, you don’t have to be one of the greats, or average, or any good at all, to fulfill your dreams of endless bags of cocaine and supermodel blowjobs by the gross, through writing. Female dreams and your own dreams may differ slightly from mine of course.
By Everyday Junglist5 years ago in Journal
I Don’t Want to Write Articles That People Want to Read
Yet another article purporting to give you the secret for success in writing on Medium or other social platforms recently caught my eye (linked below).
By Everyday Junglist5 years ago in Journal
(Do Not) Run Away With the Carnival
I'd been enthralled with the carnival for as long as I could recall. Neon lights against a dimming night sky backdrop and the mixing scents of candy apple covering liquor-stained teenage tongues drew me in without having to offer much of anything else. As I aged, there was something mystical in the idea of showing up in a new town every weekend, establishing a lifestyle and a persona that was guaranteed impermanence.
By Tia Foisy5 years ago in Journal
How To Get A New Job
Looking back over a fifty plus year career in a wide range of occupations I was struggling to think of a single job I had succeeded in landing through the conventional method of sending an application form to the company in question. During that half a century I have had about fifty different jobs and they all came to me in a variety of methods, not one of which involved posting an envelope stuffed with my cv and a covering letter.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Journal
30 Things I Learned at 30
We're going to pretend this is going to be funny. (It probably won't.) Here are just some of the things I learned in the months since I turned the big 3-0.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Journal