Eliana Osborn
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It is hard to find any real numbers about how many people do "direct sales" or how much money they make. The web is full of either big promises or pissed-off former sellers. What I do know, from bazillions of friends and family, is that making much more than pocket money means selling like a real job. Yes, it might be more flexible, but there’s no magic formula.
Read...I’m not alone in being troubled by how people suddenly disappear in life, right? That’s essentially why the internet was created. You may have heard rumors about Al Gore inventing it for military purposes... Lies!
Read...I cried every single day of my life until I was 18 years old. I did not know this was abnormal.
Read...A new, exciting trend is to have food pantries for college students. I talked to an AmeriCorps volunteer running one of these centers and she was matter-of-fact about the need — and how little is being done. Today’s college students may be young and single, living la vida loca. But more and more are what we call ‘nontraditional’: slightly older, employed full-time (or close to it), supporting a family, a veteran, etc.
Hunger for nontraditional students doesn’t mean surviving on ramen: It means they are not the only person in the household who's in need.
Read...I always have a small piece of my brain on mom mode, no matter what else is happening. I have no problem with this, since that is how humanity has survived.
Read...I get how we want to make our kids successful and everything, right from the start. Feeding into the pressure, here’s the tagline from Starling’s company: “The world’s first word-tracking system that can improve your child’s trajectory for life.”
Read...My Life on the Road (or MLR) is not what I expected...the idea of not waiting for experience to come to you permeates the book.
Read...Really, you should thank me. I’m just protecting your future self.
Read..."Sharknado 3" has an especially unique moment when a human baby is born by being cut out of the side of a shark. Don’t ask questions, there’s nothing to explain.
Read...If you kill a tortoise, even on accident, you probably shouldn’t have children.
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