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Expat Xmas: Spending the holidays away from home
Bethany Crystal – Dec 26, 2018
A snapshot at our Christmas Crew in Vienna last year Last year was my first Christmas that I spent away from home, away from my family. It wasn’t an easy call. My husband, Jason, had a work gig in London [...] Read more
Always ask the busiest person to get it done
Bethany Crystal – Dec 26, 2018
A semi-short meditation on what it’s like to be “that person” “That’s too much!” Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been told that I do too much. I still remember the first time this came up, back in middle [...] Read more
Finding the local watering holes
Bethany Crystal – Dec 23, 2018
A peek at La Placita in San Juan on a Saturday night From the quiet, residential looks of the streets, you might get the impression that you’ve wandered too far from the beaten path. The narrow streets that barely fit [...] Read more
Spending vacation time together (and apart)
Bethany Crystal – Dec 22, 2018
A few years ago, I had a week-long work trip to London. During the week, I was working jam-packed days — getting up for breakfast meetings and coffees with customers, working a full day in the office, and even taking [...] Read more
The worst questions you can ask your future employer in a job interview
Bethany Crystal – Dec 21, 2018
So, you landed an in-person job interview? Good for you! You’re one step closer to getting a foot in the door someplace new (and hopefully better) than where you are today. I’m sure you’ve already practiced and prepared a short [...] Read more
The fear of getting back into writing
Bethany Crystal – Dec 20, 2018
There’s been a bit of a movement to get back into writing lately. Between the responses from Anil Dash’s Tweet on how he’s been blogging for 20 years and Hunter Walk’s idea to kick off an all-virtual writing club in [...] Read more
Beta testing (and breaking) new systems
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as the guinea pig for “IRL” (in [...] Read more
Knowing who to trust online & offline
Bethany Crystal – Dec 19, 2018
It was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major problem at hand: I hadn’t written down the keycode needed to [...] Read more
Getting creative with available resources
Bethany Crystal – Dec 17, 2018
Over the weekend, I had brunch at a tiny NYC restaurant on the Upper West Side that’s always crammed for tables and space. In the summer, this restaurant accommodates outdoor sidewalk seating. But of course, in 30-degree weather, this no [...] Read more