When I was in high school a summer job was a big deal. Everyone had one, and some were better than others. I was lucky to live in Saco, I worked fun gigs at Cascade Water Park, The Hungry Bear at Funtown and The Round Up in Old Orchard Beach...
This school year has been a challenge for many families who have had to juggle their job and find care for their school age children on days off from school. Between regularly scheduled school vacations, half days, teacher's days and snow days, most parents don't even come close to ha…
I have a very difficult time concentrating and staying alert during meetings. It has nothing to do with the person speaking or the material being discussed. It's a phenomenon that happens when I am expected to not fidget or talk. In my silence I become acutely aware of the way the conference room li…
When I return to work after being away, I am just relieved when the combination door still opens for me. When my husband Mark returned to his job at Idexx, this is the site that welcomed him! Nothing says, "We missed ya' man" like a pranked office space...
Yikes! Being employed is expensive! A new study done by CareerBuilder.com, shows that the average person spends about $3,300 a year working. That doesn't even include day care for the kids. The biggest costs:
One thing that I can say about working at BLM, is that there is never a dull moment! Many of you know that WBLM is part of Townsquare Media Portland. Our sister stations are WCYY, WPKQ, WJBQ and WHOM. Here is the entire family! Like any family, when there's a man down, we pitch in to help...
The Zombie Apocalypse is on! According to a new survey, the average person wakes up at 6:30 a.m., leaves for work around 7:20, begins to feel human at about 8:40, but is not completely awake until 9:40! A scary amount of people don't even remember their drive into work, 60%...
Every now and then I have a real whopper of a work nightmare! It usually involves mucky-mucks showing up and there is no music in the studio, coming in and finding strangers working here and sometimes I dream that I have forgotten to go to work...