This week’s featured items are from FlexJobs, the New York Times, and GeoTab. Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash There are so many good resources and articles on the internet. Today, I’m pointing you to three that I found very interesting and I think you will too. Check them out! FlexJobs 2018 Annual Survey Results More than 3,000 people took FlexJobs’ 2018 Annual Survey, which asks questions about work flexibility, including: Why do you work? Why do you want work...
Cheers to flexible work arrangements! Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. National Flex Day Tuesday, 16 October 2018, is National Flex Day. Have you heard of it? According to an article by Rachel Jay at FlexJobs.com, flexible work is “any type of job or work schedule that gives workers more control over their workday and therefore over their personal life.” Ms. Jay goes on to include freelance gigs, remote work (aka telecommuting), part-time jobs, alternative schedules, and flexible schedules as...
Downsize Your 2080 is one year old! Photo by Carol (that’s me!) The anniversary of my first post, Want to Downsize Your Work Year? Read These Non-monetary Considerations, was actually a few weeks ago but I was too busy to announce it. With less than two dozen posts on my site, I had traveled to Orlando to attend FinCon18, a conference where personal finance bloggers, authors, media types, and representatives from finance-related companies meet to get giddy over things like...
Photo by Eder Pozo Pérez on Unsplash According to the US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website, the average school session in the United States is 6.6 hours per day. * Compare that to a 40-hour work week, commonly executed as five 8-hour days. Factor in a lunch break and some commuting time, you could easily be facing a 9-hour (or more) workday while your child is done after about seven hours. What’s a working parent...
Garden of the Gods Park was a 2011 Great Place Designee. If you’ve ever visited, you know why this park is a highlight of its community. Photo by Carol. I’m dropping by with the 2018 list of the American Planning Association’s (APA’s) Great Places. I’ll be back next week with an article related to mixing careers and family. But, first, a fun post to encourage you to nominate your most favorite place in your community (United States only) for the...
