Posts Tagged ‘Stress’

Jul 9
2008

Assembly Line Employees

by in Everyday Nonsense | 2,384 views | Reading Time 5:22

In the article titled “Shortweek,” I brought up a theory about the current state of treatment of employees throughout our country. I stated, “Employee satisfaction and morale usually isn’t the number one thing on management’s minds these days.” While it is a pretty broad statement and there are many people who are being treated very […]

Jun 26
2008

100 Item Living

by in Everyday Nonsense | 2,555 views | Reading Time 4:58

Yesterday, I ran across a simple article discussing a “movement,” as they described it, involving people living on less. To be more specific, they are trying to de-clutter their lives to less than 100 possessions. They cited a few advantages for living this way: helping the environment by consuming less, de-cluttered living is less stressful, […]

Jun 20
2008

Quarteruptcy

by in Everyday Nonsense | 1,754 views | Reading Time 5:10

Today’s article is a spontaneous article. I only have a topic in my mind to write about and the rest will come through mind and out to my fingertips. Take this journey with me as I proceed through a simple set of thoughts and let’s see where we end up. No, we are not talking […]

Jun 12
2008

Familyation

by in Everyday Nonsense | 2,120 views | Reading Time 4:34

Whoa, another silly word. Today’s new word took me a few iterations to come up with something that you could pronounce out loud. Yes, sometimes it is difficult to come up with a brand new word. I mean, Webster’s has been around for a very long time and they pretty much cornered the market on […]

May 21
2008

Idle Hands

by in Everyday Nonsense | 1,723 views | Reading Time 5:07

I’m going to take off from yesterday’s article in a little different way. Before the Industrial Revolution, our society survived with physical labor at the core. Our forefathers had to work the land to live. There were very limited amounts of power tools or machines to do the work for or assist them. Most people […]

May 6
2008

Stay at Home

by in Everyday Nonsense | 1,649 views | Reading Time 4:37

Ok, since yesterday’s article focused on a married couple living a normal American dream life and how they are continually falling deeper in debt, I left off with a question. Could the family be better off if only one adult worked? Like I said, I haven’t done the math, but I am very skeptical and […]