Is the Pressure Making You Think About Quitting? Try These 3 Easy Steps First – Via Abolencia As people of color, immigrants, and children of immigrants, the fear of not being successful is always there. There’s knowing we have to work twice as hard to get half as far. There’s the Read more…
Self-care is many things. It’s the whole-wheat toasted bagel with jalapeno cream cheese I had the other day. It’s calling my best friends, it’s drinking water. It’s sleeping. It’s me actually paying attention to my body. Paying attention to my body has been higher and higher on my list lately, Read more…
Every person with a difficult name knows the mental strain of introducing yourself. Hi, My name is Ayy-Fwa. Hey Ah-fu-wa My mind (the first time) – “That’s not my name. But you know what. I’ll give you a pass.” Hello, remind me of your name. It’s Ayy-Fwa. Yes yes Af-wa My Read more…
Through middle and high school I often was either handing over my homework for people to copy or copying theirs. I really disliked the people who put up folders or used their arm to cover their work or didn’t share their h.w, CALM DOWN. I’m not advocating cheating- I’m advocating Read more…
I love love love walking into a room full of Black and Brown people. I think I’m so giddy because I’m still recovering from attending a PWI, you know the universities that have diversity as every other word in the brochures, and diverse pictures, but you get there and looking Read more…
I paid off some of my loans in December of 2017. I was 6 months out of grad school and COULD NOT believe how much I was supposed to pay back in interest alone to these people if I followed the recommended payment plan. This was mainly because of Capitalism, Read more…
(Picture: Facebook Thread–> AL: I missed the class on Adulting! P1: It was a 9am. So I skipped it P11:^RT P2: There’s no class, you just keep getting randomly smacked in the head til you learn P3: You can cook and go places on time. That’s like 90% of it I heard) I didn’t Read more…
Thoughts and questions such as “how do I respond to that”, “Wtf are they talking about”, “Oh shi*t did I mess up?”, “did they really just say that”, “WTF is going on” are frequently running through my mind at work. I have been working for 10.5 years. I started working Read more…
Busy Season. I’m pretty convinced that on one of my late nights, my coffee whispered, “Be Strong” to me. So for those who have no idea what busy season means, this is every accountant’s worst nightmare. And every accountant will have the following conversation with themselves (thoughts/questions are in no Read more…
Hey Fam! To those who have been keeping up with this blogger’s journey, welcome back! To those new to the site, I hope you’re ready for the tour… If you made it through the ‘Life After College’ series, then based on the title herein, you know where I’m taking you Read more…