• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Escape Adulthood

Live with Less Stress & More Fun

  • About
    • Start Here
    • About Us
    • About Adultitis
    • Meet the Team
    • Giving Back
    • Press
    • Glossary
  • Art
    • Portfolio
    • Originals Available
    • Prints Available
    • Wondernite
  • Speaking
    • Overview
    • Virtual Events
    • Program Titles
    • Adultitis Interventions
    • Speaking Videos
    • Live Painting
    • Meeting Planners
  • Tools + Events
    • Adultitis Fighter Arsenal
    • Escape Adulthood LIVE
    • Escape Labs
    • Escape Plan
    • Insider Newsletter
    • Summit
    • Wonderhunt
    • Wondernite
    • Wonder & Whimsy Society
  • Community
  • Blog
    • * New Posts *
    • Create & Do
    • Family
    • Food & Recipes
    • Lifestyle Design
    • Relationships
    • On A Budget
    • Parenthood
    • Rules That Don’t Exist
    • Travel
    • Workplayce
    • You & Improved
    • Archives by Month
  • Shop
    • Art
    • Apparel
    • Books
    • First Aid Kits
    • Home & Office
    • Stationery
  • Contact

Archives for January 2003

- - - | written by Jason on 1/31/2003 | - - -

The Hideous Trade Show Experience

We recently returned from the Chicago Gift & Home Show, a trade show for retail buyers to come and stock their stores. I'd like to say that we signed an account with Marshall Field's and will be appearing on Oprah in May. To be honest, it was quite a brutal and depressing experience. Perhaps some background on the overall trade show experience is in order: The tiny 10x10 space is extremely expensive, and for a small, young business, it is quite an extensive investment. Most established manufacturers are happy to break even on a show, using it to connect with customers, find new ones, and …

[Read more...] about The Hideous Trade Show Experience

- - - | written by Jason on 1/17/2003 | - - -

Give Me Benefits Or Give Me Death!

I remember when I graduated from college almost four years ago and plotted my career path as a freelance illustrator, the well-intentioned arguments from my father on the prospect of getting a "regular" job usually involved some mention of "benefits." I heard it so often, in fact, that I began to think that it really didn't matter what job I got, as long as the benefits were good. After a while I resolved to myself, "Self, I don't want to work at a job I hate for forty years just for the benefits." …

[Read more...] about Give Me Benefits Or Give Me Death!

- - - | written by Jason on 1/2/2003 | - - -

A New Year, A New Perspective

Well, it's nice to be through with 2002. Not that there was anything horribly wrong with it, although I spent an unwelcome amount of the final days near the toilet compliments of the flu. As you shuffle that to the "Too Much Information" file, I'll move on. We did fall short of some of our goals for last year, which can get one down and cause one to ask oneself, "Were we too unrealistic?", "Am I a horrible leader?" or "Should we have sprung for that Super Bowl commercial?" Being ever the optimist (I'm a Cubs fan), I have decided to learn from last year and look ahead enthusiastically to the …

[Read more...] about A New Year, A New Perspective

Footer

be an insider

Stress less. Have more fun. Keep Adultitis at bay and add a little happy to your inbox. (Learn more.)

escape adulthood?

Escape Adulthood is the cure for the common life. It's not about escaping reality or responsibility. It's about breaking free from the vile clutches of Adultitis and rediscovering the secrets of childhood that can lead to a life filled with passion, wonder, and joy.

Don’t settle for the life you’ve been told to live; create the one you were made for. (Learn more.)

Explore

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2000 - 2023 · Brought to you by The Cure Adultitis Institute

↑ Back to top | contact · press