Dr Jeffrey Benabio
Across the country, taxes unite us. Not that we all share the same, rather that we all have to do them. It was recently tax weekend in our house: The Saturday and Sunday that cap off weeks of hunting and gathering faded receipts and sorting through reams of credit card bills to find all the dollars we spent on work. The task is more tedious than all the Wednesdays of taking out trash bins combined, and equally as exciting. But wait, that's not all.
This weekend I've been chatting with bots from a solar company trying to solve our drop in energy production and sat on terminal hold with apparently one person who answers the phone for Amazon. There's also an homeowner's association meeting to prepare for and research to be done on ceiling fans.
"Life admin" is a crisp phrase coined by Elizabeth Emens, JD, PhD, that captures the never-ending to-do list that comes with running a household. An accomplished law professor at Columbia University, New York, Emens noticed the negative impact this life admin has on our quality of life. Reading her book"Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More" (New York: HarperOne, 2019), your eyes widen as she magically makes salient all this hidden work that is stealing our time.
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The Work After Work
Jeffrey Benabio, MD, MBA
April 29, 2022
Dr Jeffrey Benabio
Across the country, taxes unite us. Not that we all share the same, rather that we all have to do them. It was recently tax weekend in our house: The Saturday and Sunday that cap off weeks of hunting and gathering faded receipts and sorting through reams of credit card bills to find all the dollars we spent on work. The task is more tedious than all the Wednesdays of taking out trash bins combined, and equally as exciting. But wait, that's not all.
This weekend I've been chatting with bots from a solar company trying to solve our drop in energy production and sat on terminal hold with apparently one person who answers the phone for Amazon. There's also an homeowner's association meeting to prepare for and research to be done on ceiling fans.
"Life admin" is a crisp phrase coined by Elizabeth Emens, JD, PhD, that captures the never-ending to-do list that comes with running a household. An accomplished law professor at Columbia University, New York, Emens noticed the negative impact this life admin has on our quality of life. Reading her book"Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More" (New York: HarperOne, 2019), your eyes widen as she magically makes salient all this hidden work that is stealing our time.
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