When you work a job which requires you to sit at a desk all day with very little movement, it can start to take its toll on your health. Since our bodies weren’t made for sedentary lifestyles, the lack of activity can begin to adversely affect our systems over time.
However, this isn’t to say that you should quit your passion which involves sitting at a desk to go find the first physically demanding job that you can find. Here are some of the best ways to stay healthy despite working at a desk.
When it comes to parenting, there is always a lot of focus on work-life balance for moms, but what about busy and active dads? Parenting can be demanding for both parents, so it’s essential that you find ways to ensure balance. There are, however, several ways that you can ensure that while juggling work, kids, and other responsibilities, you’re looking after yourself
Read MoreThe sense of having only a limited amount of time causes many parents to work themselves out of a life. The truth is sometimes while you're making money, your attitude of too little time can actually suffocate your spirit. The 'Cats In The Cradle' song by Harry Chapin is the perfect example...
Read MoreUh yes, dadhood. The next step up from adulthood, dadhood is an entirely new experience. Any aging you’d previously experienced will be accelerated through stress, stress and more stress. Kids are great, and I don’t want you to misquote me on that. However, they do have a tendency to make our hair grey and...
Read MoreIf you’re lucky enough to have a log cabin garden office, there may be one thing missing to complete your home working idyll. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a wood burning stove to keep you nice and toasty while you’re working?
Read MoreLet’s face it, not all of us dads are the alpha males we’d like to be. But does that mean we can’t get ahead at work? Not at all. We just have to figure out how to game the system to make it work for us. But what exactly does that mean in practice? After all, we’re out all day, working...
Read MoreBeing a parent these days is incredibly difficult. While it’s never been easy, now the expectations for both mothers and fathers are changing...
Read MoreIn response to Charles Murray’s piece about celebrating the social value of stay-at-home wives and mothers, my colleague Jim Tankersley asked (via Twitter) an excellent question: Why focus on stay-at-home women rather than stay-at-home men, given that women are accumulating more human capital than their male counterparts? Young women are more likely to get college degrees today than men are; doesn’t that suggest that women’s comparative advantage might lie in the workplace, while men’s lies at home?
Read MoreSometimes I feel like a bad dad. Doubts over my parental savvy often correlate with how long I’m at the office. When I call to tell Mrs. Tepper that I’ll be here until 7:30 p.m. working on a magazine feature—and won’t be home to put our son Luke to bed—the soft disappointment in her voice stays with me like a faint ember. The same guilty feelings apply to my job, too.
Read MoreBeing a dad might entail dirty diapers, but it also tends to come with big bucks. Men with children earned 40% more than their childless counterparts in 2010, according to a new study by The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dads had a median salary of $49,000 compared to around $29,000 for men without kids.
Read MoreThe study, titled "Physical activity barriers and facilitators among working mothers and fathers" was published in BioMed Central Public Health, a peer-reviewed journal. The project was funded in part by the Kansas State University Open Access Publishing Fund.
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