mental-health
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A survival guide for the accidentally promoted Congratulations! Someone looked at your work and thought, “You know what this person needs? The responsibility for other people’s problems.” Welcome to management, where your biggest achievement will be keeping everyone happy while slowly forgetting what you used to be good at. Don’t panic. With these seven scientifically-unproven
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A field guide to navigating workplace panic with your dignity mostly intact Introduction: Welcome to the Thunderdome Congratulations! You have a job! This means you now get to experience the thrilling roller coaster of professional anxiety, where every email could be your last and every meeting feels like a performance review disguised as a “quick
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A completely scientific guide to recognizing, treating, and preventing the workplace condition that makes you feel like you’ve been hit by a truck driven by your own ambition. Step 1: Acknowledge the Signs You might be experiencing burnout if: Step 2: Accept That You’re Not Actually a Robot Despite what your LinkedIn profile might suggest,
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A survival guide for climbing the corporate ladder without falling off and taking everyone else with you Let’s face it: most career advice sounds like it was written by someone who thinks “networking” means having a really good WiFi connection. But here’s the thing about being so good they can’t ignore you – sometimes they’ll
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A recovering screen zombie’s guide to rediscovering the outdoors The Great Awakening (AKA: When My Phone Died and Changed My Life) It started with a dead battery. Not the kind of dead battery that sends you scrambling for a charger like a caffeinated squirrel, but the kind where your phone finally gives up the ghost
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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Couch Listen up, overachievers and chronic desk-dwellers. We need to talk about something that’s been bothering me more than people who don’t use their turn signals: the fact that we’ve somehow convinced ourselves that taking mental health breaks is about as productive as teaching a
Will Anfeldt 