Category Archives: Work

Lessons learned from unemployment

By Julie Laurin | Published: August 8, 2010

Late one evening in June, after a huge workout, a large meal and one heck of an awesome day spent with my sister, I was packing up my stuff to head home to crash for the night. Work had been insanely busy due to a project that involved some major tax changes and I needed [...]

Also posted in Simple Life | Tagged featured, hiring, HR, jobs, lessons, life, Simple Life, unemployment, Work | 2 Comments

Dude, I don’t work for free

By Julie Laurin | Published: April 24, 2010

I don’t work for free. On the rare occasion, if I believe in the product or the person, I might write a review for free. Or I might help a non-profit with checking for spelling and grammatical errors on their website. Every now and then, I don’t mind doing a bit of unpaid work if [...]

Posted in Work | Tagged freelance, life, money, Work, writing | 4 Comments

It won’t happen to me! (until it does)

By Julie Laurin | Published: April 7, 2010

I’ve always been pretty unlucky. I’m fairly clumsy, I’m accident-prone and I tend to catch whatever virus is out there. I’m used to it, I’ve learned to live with being genetically-flawed and a bit of a klutz. But this year has been the worst for me so far. I’ve been more sick than at any [...]

Also posted in Health | Tagged alone, donate, humanity, illness, sick, success, volunteer, Work | 13 Comments

Doing what’s right instead of what’s popular

By Julie Laurin | Published: March 24, 2010

I’ve made a series of decisions and I’ve said a series of things during my life that have gone against what’s popular. I have rocked boats, I have questioned, I have said “no”. I’ve been called a rebel, I’ve been called “unmanageable”, I’ve been accused of being a smart ass. In the workplace, I’ve been [...]

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Telecommuting is the future (or why you can’t get any work done at work!)

By Julie Laurin | Published: March 11, 2010

This is such a great find! Watch this video (nevermind the plug for his own product). He really identifies the major problems with workplaces – that no one can do any work at work because of constant interruptions. He’s completely right in saying that it is a management and leadership issue. And it’s that way because everyone [...]

Posted in Work | Tagged meetings, office, remote, telecommuting, Work | 1 Comment