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...
Professional credentials allow you to place initials, acronyms and abbreviations after your name AND can increase your potential to earn higher income. Photo by Carol. He did it. He went ahead and did it. My office manager drew a proverbial line in the sand. Feeling underpaid since switching professions and starting a new job, I met with the Human Resources manager to request a review of my related experience, my value to the team, and the range of my peers’...
The up and down, jagged outline of these rock formations resembles my earned income over the years. Find out why. Photo by Carol (that’s me!) I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. Graduating from a well-respected college with a degree in chemical engineering as a female in the late 1980s, I set myself up...
Photo by Carol (that’s me!) from our recent dream trip to Kauai. Does a baby avocado grow up dreaming of being spread on toast and covered with an egg? or being mashed in to guacamole to be eaten with chips at the world’s finest five-star resort? Of course not! Why? Because avocadoes don’t have a heart and a brain and an imagination that allows it to dream, to set goals, and to connect in the way that only humans can....
