HeyJaredLife After Work
Do you beeeeeelieve in life after work? Writing about what happens when I shut the computer off. Mostly, lifestyle, economics, politics, art and feminism. None of this has ever happened to anyone, least of all me. For legal purposes...
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I Read Four Books This Month and Still Watched a Banana Have an Affair (opens the original)
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Lately, I feel like social media has become just noise. It reminds me of the Charlie Brown adults, mumbling in the background. Maybe it’s my algorithm that went from healthy recipes to people stitching healthy recipes to confirm that they are, in fact, healthy. Maybe I liked one too many feminist posts and am now doomed to get suggested content about how men suck and women should rule. My opinion? Power corrupts, and while women generally suffer disproportionately in adverse situations, some wom
A Woman in Possession of an Ageing Womb (opens the original)
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Before I turned 36, I went to my gyno. She was ADAMANT that if I didn’t want to swear off the possibility of motherhood, I had to take it seriously, SOON. It took me a few months to get a hormone check because, well, whatever my ovarian reserve was, I was not about to start trying for a child just because of biology. If I have a child, it will be because I want a child, not because I have a ticking clock chasing me down the street. I mean, I know the ticking time bomb is still there - but I refu
It is a truth universally acknowledged (opens the original)
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I never hid the fact that I was engaged. I've worn a diamond ring on my left hand for the past fifteen months. However, I never talked about it. Last week, I had to explicitly mention it at work to get an additional day off. Since then, somehow every conversation at work seems to eventually become wedding-related. I don’t like it. I don’t even like it when my friends ask me. I like it even less when people at work assume my entire personality is being a bride. <a class="image-link image2" href="
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