Superman’s first appearance in any media form came in the first issue of Action Comics on April 18, 1938. On the cover is an image of a man wearing a blue spandex uniform with a red cape flowing out behind him. He’s lifting up a green car. The front end of the car is smashed…
At 144 pages, this little unassuming white book published by Princeton University might not seem it has a great deal of information. There’s also a bit of confusion about how much it cost, at least in my local area. While the MSRP of the book is set at 27.95, Rivier University in New Hampshire paid…
In 2016, management at the Conrad Miami hotel in Miami, Florida fired Marie Jean Pierre, an African-American woman, for not coming into work on Sundays. Pierre worked as a dishwasher at the hotel for several years. She requested to have Sundays off in 2009 due to her religious beliefs, saying that on those days, she…
For a while now, mainstream articles spurred by Keynesian economic thought have decried that middle class jobs are disappearing. That is to say, those 40,000 dollar or more per year jobs upon which one could live, if not happily, then at least within a modicum of comfort. While automation and the new gig economy (in…
Recently moving away from a long-time freelancing career to a normal, traditional job has led me to some unusual ruminations about the current economy and jobs in general. For the most part, anyone who wants to have any kind of job must seek out an employer with a brick and mortar establishment. This is especially…
In previous years, every time January 1st rolled around, I would join in with my friends and family in setting unrealistic goals for myself to achieve throughout the new year. By March, those goals would be forgotten. By July, whatever I had planned for myself would not only not have occurred- the opposite was likely…
Patreon Update(s)/ Introduction August was my birthday month and I actually ended up taking a bunch of days off to celebrate that. Now, what I meant to do what say that explicitly and let y’all know what was going on…but I kind of didn’t…oops. It was a mixture of forgetting, wondering if it was really…
By now, over eighteen years since its release in movie theaters, everyone has either seen or heard of a film called The Matrix. The story of The Matrix follows a hacker named Thomas Anderson as he grapples with a meaningless 9 to 5 job, his own illegal activity, and his feeling that something is wrong…
Patreon Update(s)/Introduction July was a very troublesome month for me emotionally and so, ironically, in a month where I had very little of my dog sitting left, I produced (slightly) less content than I had in the previous few months. Most of this can be attributed to that lovely phenomenon known as depression. I had…
Note: A friend of mine was willing to donate some of her time and energy into channeling her great writing prowess for my site! I really appreciate this article and Winter taking the time to share her personal experiences with us. If you can imagine employment as a gigantic revolving door the size of a…