Self-Employment – Natalie Burg

May 17, 2016May 19, 2016Self-Employment

Spending your (time) lotto winnings

For about three minutes today, I fantasized about how I would spend $429.6 million in lotto winnings. Then I realized that since my thrilling character combination of being both super cheap and strongly analytical has prevented me from ever having purchased a lottery ticket, these were three minutes sorely wasted. Besides, once you are a legit adult, don’t you have to subscribe to that boring windfall rule of 1/3 toward debt, invest 1/3 and just 1/3 for splurging? Zzzzzz…

All this happened just moments before winning my own brand of lottery.

April 19, 2016April 14, 2016Feminism General Life Whatnot Self-Employment

Dorothea Dix, 1843: Stay focused, do great things

In a time when women could not vote and were still incredibly limited in their ability affect social change, Dorothea Dix singlehandedly changed the living and care conditions for hundreds of people with mental illness in the United States.

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016Self-Employment Writing

The most productive hour of my month (errr…year) was getting a massage. Really.

Yesterday, I redeemed a gift certificate for a massage given to me by my mom for my birthday. Wasn’t that nice? It was nice. To clarify though, my birthday was in January. It is now April. So, in terms of honoring someone’s generosity, I could have been much nicer myself. But, you know. It’s hard to […]