Envious Confession From Office Worker Over Trades Life
A white collar insurance worker, 44, confesses envy of outdoors tradesmen for their defined, measurable work and perceived certainty. He reflects on the gap between office life and hands on labor, acknowledges romanticizing their pace, risk, and payoff, and notes lingering questions about respect and aging in both worlds.
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Allstate
Greene
DENSA founder promotes being dense over IQ tests
Stephen Price, founder of the DENSA Society, explains in a Dallas interview how his group rejects IQ testing as a measure of potential. He recounts his own low SAT scores, a nontraditional college path, and the 700 members in 28 states including celebrities like Bill Murray and Woody Allen.
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Gail Cooper-Evans
Gazette
Living Today
Stephen Price
Densa Society
Mensa
DENSA
the Gazette
Dallas
Price
Steve
New England College
New Hampshire
University of Texas At Austin
Teagger
California
Texas
America
Bill Murray
Lily Tomlin
Judy Holliday
Woody Allen
Vermont couple trades career for country inn venture
Lyle and Barbara Wolf quit teaching and nursing to run the Greenhurst Inn near Woodstock, investing $100,000 in an 90 year old Vermont property. They restored nine rooms, built two tennis courts, and set rates of 24 to 44 dollars per night with a potential gross of 135 thousand dollars annually. The couple epitomizes a growing trend of midlife urban residents seeking bucolic inn life in Vermont.
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Vermont
Lyle Wolf
California
Wolf
Barbara
Bob Newhart
Bethel
Michael Yaroschuk
Vermont Hospitality and Travel Association
Yaroschuk
Washington, D.C
Joneses
Washington
Quebec Inn
Greenhurst Inn
Woodstock
Philadelphia
Wolfs
Continental Breakfast
Wolf's
Harvard Law School
Country Inns
Lyle
Barbara Wolf
Greenhurst
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