Kontrary is a different on work and life.
Hi, I’m Rebecca! This is my blog. I write about how to find meaning and make money in your work and life. I’m interested in the overlap of work and life that many don’t see. Sometimes I’ll go deep. Oftentimes I share my own life. Occasionally I’ll try to be funny (I’m still learning).

My first job out of college paid me $26,500. Last year, I made over six-figures. This year, I quit my job to pursue my own business. When Sheryl Sandberg says our careers no longer resemble a ladder, but instead a jungle gym, she’s not kidding. I don’t pretend to know all the answers – and what fun would that be anyway – but I do continually ask questions.

I hope you’ll sign up for my weekly newsletter – find it on the sidebar, to the right – and join me on this journey. You can also check out some of my favorite posts here:

Work
- How to Decide Between Money and Meaning (34)
- Don’t Make Career Plans – Here’s Why (56)
- Why Gen Y should Job-Hop, Even in the Recession (60)
- Helping Your Career When You’re Not Middle Class (41)
- How to Step Up and Have Anything But a Normal Career (37)
- Careers Are Like Relationships, So Ask Your Mom for Advice (43)

Life
- A Brief Retrospective on Growing Up (46)
- Why Instagram is Art (28)
- Moving to a New City (41)
- Generation Y is Too Quiet, Too Conservative (84)
- Real-Life Disclosures on the Myth of Work-Life Balance (64)
- Trying Isn’t Good Enough (31)
- Personal Branding, Accountability & How to Just Be Yourself Already (41)

Women
- Women: Change Motherhood, Not the Workplace (53)
- Career Women Should Try Harder – Especially in the Midwest (48)
- Women Will Lead Generation Y – What Will Men Do? (77)
- The Miseducation of a Woman (26)
- Women in Tech Need to Stop Segregating Themselves (18)
- Generation Y Breeds a New Kind of Woman (84)

Education
- Stop Fussing About Student Loans and Find Gen Y A Job (27)
- No “A for Effort”: How Colleges Fail Generation Y (62)
- The Online Self-Educated: Doing What Colleges Can’t (14)
- 3 Ways to Upgrade College (32)