Work Hacks

I'm not a veteran of the post-college "real world" yet but I've been around long enough to know the basics: your salary isn't high enough, the weekend isn't long enough and there's never enough time.

I would need a time machine to fix the salary problem (by changing majors... a bad engineer is still an engineer), and I don't think the country will ever switch to my proposed "Work Two, Off Five" weekly plan.  Here are a few tricks I use to steal as much time from what I have to do so I can put more into what I like to do.

Before the Beltline: Infamous Apex, LaFace Records Part 3

Between 1991-1996 LaFace Records, its top artists and the city it called home all went through major transitions.  Each sprung up from obscurity and quickly announced grand intentions.  TLC went from casting a call pitch to a world tour, Atlanta bid for hosting rights to the 1996 Olympics and Kenneth Edmonds and LA Reid graduated from producing singles to running a label.

The hope of impending change is deceitful.  At the start we have idealistic thoughts of what the other side is like.  We see the freedom of driving but not the burden of buying gas, the appeal of being in shape minus the sacrifice of a new diet and the perks of a raise without the weight of added job responsibilities. After five years and millions of records sold, TLC was was about to feel the backlash of success but none its advantages.