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myTakes: Education & Career

My life got flipped turned upside down.

Turmoil Since I found out we have to move out in a year I thought a lot about my future. First I thought I'd move back to Zürich but now I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that. And I thought about my life more practically....
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The Stay At Home Mother (or Father) raising the kids is only second best for family structures.

So, in today's day and age, with so many children in the West being raised by single mothers, and families with two parents out earning paycheques and the kids in daycare; the "traditional stay at home mother raising the...
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Slaying the beast known as college math and how things have changed for the better

I recently completed the final math course I have to ever take which is “statistics”. It was an absolute nightmare. If you read some of my previous posts, you’d know just how much I absolutely loathe mandatory math...
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Do you struggle to find a decent working environment?

Since I started working I have had quite a few different job roles. Anyone that might look at my CV will probably wonder whether I'm serious about actually having a job. (In the last 7 years I've been in one industry well...
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Online school is being done pretty poorly

Right okay, I'm doing online school and honestly, I couldn't tell you what I did in my last lesson, I at least am not learning anything from this. The work is always too long or too short so I either can't be bothered to...
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The Journey to reinvention of my professional profile to improve your personal circumstances.

Good day GAG Community. Recently I decided that I need to make a change in the Quality Personal life as well as my retirement plan, thought to myself that to reach my goals I would have to change my professional profile...
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English class is boring to me!!

So, at my age I have decided to go back to college to further my education and career. In that I have to retake subjects that I do not want too. Such as English. Our semesters are only 8 weeks and to be considered...
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Is it selfish to be rich, retired at a young age and chose to be single for life?

This sure is quite long for a question and I've exceeded the characters limitation in this. So I'm just gonna turn this into a "myTake question" I've heard it's more expensive to be single. Also married couple makes...
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How to Make the Best out of any Given Day!

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -- Winston S. Churchill A person's life is like a giant mosaic; a combination of thousands of tiles of different colors and...
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I Don't Need To Wear High Heels To Do My Job

Obviously in recent times, we've heard a lot more about the injustices done to women and some men in work environments due to sexism and harassment. You would think with so much policy on book, and trainings that happen...
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Computer illiteracy is no longer acceptable in the workplace.

Unless you are committed to a life of manual labor, you should read this and heed my words. I'm shocked and a bit appalled at the lack in basic computer skills among my own generation (gen-x), but more-so at generations...
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Finding a career: An essay on neurotic egotism

When I was a young child, the future of my world was open as the sky. With my life having just begun, I believed I could do anything I wanted when I “grew up” if I had the slightest inclination to. Now, at eighteen years...
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Georgia School Tries to Silence Teen Who Exposed Covid Health Risks

A Georgia teen recently went viral after she published a photo on social media of her classmates shoulder to shoulder shuffling to their next classes with no masks on or any form of social distancing. Pre-pandemic, this...
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The role of phlebotomists during the pandemic

Phlebotomy the surgical opening or puncture of a vein in order to withdraw blood, to introduce a fluid, or (historically) when letting blood. Following the announcement that a select few “key” workers are receiving a pay...
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The Problem of Being Uneducated Or Anti-Academia

I’m Chinese and I’ve always had conflicts with uneducated people A thin and rich millionaire’s wife I used to talk to flunked out of three university’s and community schools and she is never intelligent enough to know...
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How To Fight Abuse At Work

We are all aware of the possibility of sexual harassment at work ~ for both women and men . Few of us know or realize the existence of bullying or other types of abuse in the workplace which may even be evidence of...
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My second job experience and why I won't be going back to it.

As a lot of you know during covid-19,a lot of resturaunts closed down and went to delivery or takeout only. My job was closed till May 4th. During that period the steakhouse where I was at was takeaway only. Business was...
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Books I recommend for learning German (classics)

Since I only really like classics, here are the books I recommend for diving into Central European and German culture. I mostly chose fairly short books because I know from experience that it’s very hard to motivate...
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How to get past childhood bullying in adulthood

All through school i was bullied for lots of different reasons. I've always been very petite so i was easy to push around and I can be shy and awkward at times as well as having learning disabilities and just struggling...
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What It's Really Like Having Dyslexia!

I was diagnosed with dyslexia along with dyspraxia and short term memory loss aged 7. The dyspraxia and short term memory loss are kind of adds ons to my dyslexia and that's why im just gonna talk about them as a whole. a...
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