Results for: you need help
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You Need Help: How Do I Deal With the Inescapable Sexism in My Industry?
Ultimately, your question is about how to find hope in the midst of the inescapable bigotry that defines the working world.
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You Need Help: Trying To Live Through the Pandemic Is Destroying My Mental Health
I want you to hold this: Even though the world is kind of terrible, your life is precious and valuable, and you are loved.
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You Need Help: How Do I Become the Protagonist of My Own Life?
Who were your fictional heroes? What were the stories that were told to you in the songs that you played on loop? Who were the artists who sang them, and how did their lives – so close to fiction anyway, by virtue of Hollywood tabloid culture – create stories for you? What did you imagine for yourself, as a teen?
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You Deserve a Damn Raise: 5 Tips to Make It Happen
Eventually I realised that work is just this whole other thing in life that isn’t always fair, and so sometimes you’ve gotta ask for what you’re due.
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I’m In My Thirties and Can’t Make Up My Mind About Having Kids
I’ve been thinking about it almost every day lately.
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You Need Help: Coming Out as Non-Binary at Work
Our gender is not a burden, the binary mainstream society is. You are wonderful, I’m so proud of you for reaching out. Take what works from my suggestions, and know I’ll be hoping it all turns out for the best.
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The Pause Project: How to Take Time for Self-Care, Slowness, and Joy
We could all do with a little bit more self-care right now; this how-to takes you through one dyke’s journey to find joy and slowness through The Pause Project. Learn about her process and read about some ways you can curate a self-care project like this for yourself.
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work
Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.
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Queered & Careered: Career Anxiety
We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.
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Queered & Careered: In the Meantime (Or Things to Do While You’re Unemployed)
One of the most insidious effects of unemployment in a capitalist society is that we start to doubt our worth if we are not tied to a job. Our daily resilience IS productive and we deserve to celebrate ourselves, employed or not.
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Queered & Careered: 12 Ways to Cope at Work When You’re Just Not Feeling It
For those days when you wake up for work and a repeated round of “fuck this” is going through your head.
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Queered & Careered: 5 Ways You Can Use Tarot at Work
Just because, let’s be honest: your workplace could use some queer witchy energy.
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Queered & Careered: Things to Bring and Leave Behind
Queered & Careered is a column that offers tips and tricks on how to navigate career development as a queer person — from job searching to career inspiration to dealing with straight nonsense in the office.
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“Go The F*ck To Sleep!” 8 Ways to Kick Insomnia’s Ass
Sleep is the magic pill. Gotta get in on that.
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You Need Help: You Want the Job, But Don’t Feel Qualified
I’ve been on both sides of the hiring table. I’ve been the one applying for a job and the one interviewing job applicants. Here’s what I’ve learned.
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5 Ways To Fight Back Against Seasonal Affective Disorder
I’ve been dealing with SAD all my adult life, and especially since I moved to the northeast where daylight lasts about as long as my lunch break from November to March. I’ve learned a lot about coping, and about making things easier on myself by noticing and addressing my symptoms before I’m in the midst of a full-blown depressive spiral. SAD isn’t fixable for me, but here’s how I’ve learned to fight back against it.
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Home Sweet Homo: A Guide to Buying Your First Home
Where do you even start the journey of finding your dream home? Right here!
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How to Stop Biting Your F*cking Nails
There is a world in which your nails do not bleed onto paper and you don’t want to cry from how much it hurts to do anything with your hands (which is a lot of things), and it is a world you could most definitely come to live in in time.
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All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.