LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
In Spain, we meet 24-year-old
Ester Martinez, who chooses to
downplay her considerable education — a nursing degree, a master’s degree and a doctorate she’s
currently pursuing — as she applies for work in retail shops and
supermarkets. And then there’s
Spanish worker Thomas Palot,
who expected to find work as a
computer technician after completing his studies, but has only
been able to find occasional temp
work — distributing flyers, lifting
boxes, and other odd jobs.
“I’m laughing, but I should be
crying,” says Luciana Di Virgilio,
a 27-year-old Italian industrial
designer. “In our trade journals,
it’s common to read the phrase
‘young designer.’ And then you
see they’re writing about nearly
50-year-old men and women.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Catherine Pearson looks at the ways
women are making the time to
incorporate meditation into
their busy lives.
Twenty-three-year-old freelance
writer and mother Jill Amodio used
to believe she needed to set aside a
large chunk of time for meditation,
an unattainable goal that made her
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think of meditation as just another
thing she was failing at. Then she
realized that even a few minutes
of meditation each day could leave
her feeling recharged.
“What is the purpose of this
meditation?” Amodio later asked
herself. “It’s not to get an hour in.
I’m laughing, but I
should be crying … it’s
common to read the phrase
‘young designer.’ And then
you see they’re writing
about nearly 50-year-old
men and women.”
It’s to get relaxed, and to re-center
myself.” Now, she fits it naturally
into her schedule, rather than seeing it as an added source of stress.
Finally, as part of our ongoing focus on the Third Metric, we look at
what your body looks like
when it’s high on exercise.
ARIANNA