jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Boring presentations

    How to bore listeners during your presentation? Put in words in your slide deck and lots of it. And while you are speaking to the audience, talk as if they are as familiar with the text as you are. And that they could follow through with every idea you’re so excited to share with them. Read more


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  • Stories that hurt

    Stories affect people in various ways; often, it changes lives. And people who are deceived by the story they tell themselves might end up hurting those surrounding them. Read more


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  • Dancing with the deadlines

    Without a list, it’s challenging to keep track of the things you’ve never yet started, the ones still in progress, and those already done. And if you have a colleague who over-commits but never writes them down, you should never get shocked if they can only do some and forget about the rest. Because if Read more


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  • Extra jobs

    Getting an additional workload from a fixed-salary job often feels too much. But we never mind putting additional hours into the hourly jobs we specifically enrolled in. No one asked us to do more; we just did. Because receiving an instant reward (often in cash directly sent to your account) for every project you finish Read more


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  • Autonomy and output-based jobs

    It feels exhausting when you don’t have any control over what happens with your time at work. I can remember being employed in an eight-to-five job, ticking boxes, and trying to look for other things to do when I’ve already finished the tasks for the day. The sad thing is we were not given much Read more


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  • When a moment passes by

    When a moment passes, it passes quickly. But it could feel as if the time is at a pause, and all you think of is the serenity of the moment you’re in. The noise and motion of the whirling movements around you are like a blur at your periphery. It feels peaceful and quiet. Your Read more


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  • Gets easier to show up every day

    If you’ve been wondering how I come up with something to write every day, I can tell that it felt dreadful as I started out. “What should I write about today?“ “Do I have the right words to say?“ “Will anybody read at all?“ Sure, we write so that somebody reads it. But what I Read more


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Everyday Stories, Lived

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