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  • How Your Career Affects Your Happiness (or: Are There Any Happy Lawyers?)
    Burnout | Career | Happiness | Lifestyle | Success

    How Your Career Affects Your Happiness (or: Are There Any Happy Lawyers?)

    Updated12/29/2021
    236 Comments

    Reader C wonders who the happy lawyers are… but I think this leads us to a bigger question that will hopefully make for an interesting discussion: how do you view your career in your general quest for happiness? Hi Kat, I have a question for you and your incredible readers. I am an undergrad applying…

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  • After-Work Activities | Energy | Happiness | Lifestyle | Networking | No Time | Organization | Productivity | Stress

    Fitting a Social Calendar Into a Busy Life

    Updated04/16/2024
    88 Comments

    Update: We still stand by this advice below about fitting a social calendar into a busy life, but do check out our latest discussion about ways to make time for friends when you work a lot.  I don’t think we’ve talked about this yet, and I’m curious what readers say. Your job is important, and…

  • Open Thread:  Ways to Relax?
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    Open Thread: Ways to Relax?

    Updated02/06/2023
    163 Comments

    Today’s reader mail is asking for an open thread discussing relaxation techniques… so let’s discuss! What are your favorite ways to relax? It would be fun to see an open thread discussing what readers do to relax/pamper themselves. I just bought the Discovery Channel “Planet Earth” series, for example, because it was on sale and…

  • Some Thoughts on Frump
    Comfort | Fashion | Fashion Gaffes | Happiness | Just Starting Out | Lifestyle | Mid-20s | Mid-30s | New Mom | Stages | Style | Suits | Tailoring | Wear to Work

    Some Thoughts on Frump

    Updated02/19/2021
    219 Comments

    2021 Update: We still stand by this advice below, but you can also check out our more recent discussion on how to avoid professional frump. We got this reader mail a little while ago, and it seems appropriate in light of the response to this morning’s cardi set (wow, you guys did NOT like that)….

  • Vogue Versus the Law Firm
    Energy | Happiness | Lifestyle

    Vogue Versus the Law Firm

    Updated11/01/2018
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    Well, not exactly. Lauren Della Monica, over at Damsels In Success, posted her biggest lessons learned from two of her careers: as an editorial assistant at Vogue, as well as a litigator at a big firm. Her resume is inspiring, anyway — she’s opened her own art consulting firm and is only 33 — but…

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