Tag: Work

Hustling hobbies from passion to pressure

Whether your hobby is painting, embroidering, or collecting stamps, you don’t need an Etsy store to validate how you spend your time. Slate recently published a piece about “hustle culture,” which pushes young people to monetize their passions. The current rise-and-grind generation has been raised...

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Why I’m a student journalist

When I tell my friends I’m only taking two courses I usually get a response like “aw man, you’re so lucky”. But then I tell them I work 60 hours a week, often into obscure hours of the morning and sometimes even on 24 hour binges — all for an honoraria that roughly equals $3 an hour. Typically that...

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Work hard…work more?

A work hard, play hard mentality might be the norm for a university student, but in the workforce, “play hard” is more of an irresponsible drain on the economy than a necessary balance to working. In Canada, alcohol consumption costs the economy around $7 billion a year in impaired productivity, according...

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Underemployed and underpaid

Graduating from Queen’s could mean more than a degree. It could mean a better chance at employment. At the end of 2012, Queen’s graduates in Ontario had an employment rate of 88.5 per cent — 1 per cent higher than the provincial average of 87.5 per cent. These numbers don’t take into account whether...

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