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Inside Today’s Edition 🦋 

• Don’t Be a Fossil Fool: How Not Having Kids Helps the Planet

• Control Your Dating Narrative

• 2024 Career Kickstart: Job Search Tips

• Book Club: Under the Whispering Door

• Tuscan Hotel Opening: Where Life is an Art

• Web Gems: The Best Curated For You

Read time: 4 minutes

CHOOSING CHILDFREE

Don’t Be a Fossil Fool: How Not Having Kids Helps the Planet

In the face of climate change, our daily choices matter.

From production to transportation, every aspect of our lives contributes to a carbon footprint, fueled by the burning of fossil fuels. Not surprisingly, choosing to be childfree emerges as a significant eco-conscious decision. A 2021 survey revealed that 5% of childfree individuals cited "climate change/the environment" as their reason. Even among the childless, BirthStrikers refuse to have kids until climate change ends.

Our latest article explores how our choices positively impact the environment by reducing resource consumption, offering a green solution to global concerns.

COMMUNITY

Control Your Dating Narrative

We love hearing about single women having fun with dating. While this writer lives for the plot, childfree Hillary lives for the adventure. International Tinderella is where she dishes all about blissful romances, steamy hookups, hilarious moments, and the occasional snooze-fests she experiences with bachelors around the world.

If you suffer from Sunday Scaries, you may have already decided it’s time to move on. Heed these job search tips to land a new gig.

Get Personal: prioritize quality over quantity by personalizing each application. Tailor your resume and add interpersonal skills suited to the position. Take the extra step to create a video intro or suggest process improvements. Stand out rather than waving the red copy/paste flag.

🧠 Apply selectively (5-10 applications/week) for higher chances in competitive roles.

Work Your Network: be transparent about job-seeking. Share your job preferences with your family, friends, and followers. Ask for intros or referrals.

🧠  Add "open to work" on your LinkedIn profile.

Increase Your Visibility: Enhance your chances when relevant roles open up by connecting with companies you’re interested in. Engage with their content and follow their key employees.

🧠 Build relationships with recruiters.

Don’t Sleep on AI: AI will substantially impact 40% of jobs within the next three years and today 75% of employers seeking AI-qualified talent are facing challenges finding them. Nudge yourself to become more AI-proficient to enhance your career prospects. View AI-related jobs here and remote jobs here.  

🧠  A robot won’t take your job. But someone who knows how to manage robots might!

Take inspiration from Paul Millerd if you want to embark on a new, unconventional path. Go from unfulfilled and burned out to the good life.

BOOK CLUB

Under the Whispering Door

Then immerse yourself in the captivating story of Wallace, a seemingly unkind man whose callous demeanor takes an unexpected turn after a heart attack leaves him caught between the earthly realm and the next.

In this profoundly moving tale of loss, grief, and redemption, witness the remarkable power of change and the unexplored depths of human kindness.

Receive a free copy of our e-book, “No Kids, No Limits: 100+ Decisions Childfree Adults Don’t Have to Make” with just 1 referral. Your unique link.

TRAVEL

Tuscan Hotel Opening: Where Life is an Art

Step into refined luxury at the soon-to-open Collegio Alla Querce, Auberge Resorts Collection, Florence. Wander through the sprawling Baroque gardens, where soaring cypress, laurel, and oak trees create a picturesque backdrop. Stroll or find quiet corners within hidden groves for intimate conversations.

Immerse yourself in a world where culinary excellence takes center stage with daily cooking classes and sommelier-guided wine tastings. The hotel is a masterpiece, adorned with museum-worthy art and antiques that pay homage to Florence's timeless Renaissance heritage.

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WEB GEMS

The Path of Self-Extinction: Is the US barreling down this path? We are according to Andrée Seu Peterson since more people are dying than are being born. Peterson fails to mention immigration and mortality rates. But that’s alright — she lost us anyway by stating a well-lived life means “raising up another resident for heaven.” Yuck.

Total Eclipse: The real kind, not of the heart, takes place on April 8, 2024. From Mexico to Maine, cities on the path include: San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Montreal. Plan your travel.

How to Increase Your Healthspan: A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that women who spent more than six hours per day sitting had a 37% increased risk of premature death from any cause, compared to women who spent less than three hours per day sitting. If you don’t have a lot of time to workout or simply don’t like it, start exercise snacking.

You Only Better? Not necessarily. This NYTimes writer says Botox destroyed what she liked about her face. Now she sees the beauty and humanity in the asymmetry. 💗  

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