The Workday Reading: July 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015
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1) There are so many TED talks these days that it’s tough to pick out the best ones. Business Insider has 12 videos on career advancement that are worth a look.
2) This ASOS zip-top city bag is a fantastic professional satchel for under-$50. It comes in four lovely colors.
3) Why you should never ask a pregnant woman if she’s going back to work.
4) I am obsessed with this casual black anorak from Anthropologie (it’s so cool). Land’s End also makes a great option for $59 (also in plus and petite).
5) Rolling Stone introduces you to a man who flies around the world for free gaming the frequent flier system.
6) Meghan at Wit & Whimsy talks about her favorite lip colors. This Lipstick Queen lip pencil in Nymph looks so good I have to try it.
7) Quartz thinks we’re doing our e-mail introductions wrong. They actually dissect e-mails to illuminate common mistakes.
8) Banana Republic has 40%-off your purchase with code BRINSTANT. I picked up this light, watermelon-colored sweater and these drapey, olive cargo pants.
9) Looking for a summer trip? Atlas Obscura tracks literature’s greatest road trips.
10) Oh, David Yurman, you never disappoint.
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Thanks for the frequent flying article, Belle. What an interesting read!
You always link to such interesting articles! Thanks for the grist. And as for #3 above, I’m a lawyer pregnant with my second kiddo and I always answer that question (and the related “are you going back full time?”) with “Yes, and my husband is too.”
I had no doubt I would love the Lipstick Queen brand knowing it was one of your favorites!! The lip pencils are so good and I think you’d love that color. Thanks for thinking of me!!! xx
FYI I tried on the anorak in olive green and was not impressed. The cinching at the waist structures it oddly and it wears more clunky tourist than casual cool.
I went to purchase a few things from Banana Republic in Canada because we also have 40% with a code. But of course you don’t get the discount if you choose BR picks- and almost everything nice is a BR pick. Even the two things you bought are BR picks- did you still get the discount??
I found two awesome tops I really wanted and went to pay and realized I couldn’t get the discount because if this. Frustrating!!
I did, but maybe because I have the BRcard.
About that going back to work question, I am hunting down with my partner, daycares for Baby Bun because HE is going back to work.
First question: So, because you (mama) are going back to work..
Me: *interrupts*.. actually HE is going back to work I am already working.
.. and every time I call, I say: I work until 5 p.m. I can’t meet until 6 p.m. , I get the strangest pauses on the line.
I don’t get offended, I just laugh and correct them. Still, the writer has a point.