We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it?

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing.

Ultimately, it's a culture change.

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I went to school for communications because that's where my strengths were.

But I never really had a path or a clear vision. I started my career doing

marketing for a big construction firm and every job after that was sort of to get out of a previous job. I wasn't super good at it, I wasn't super bad at it, but I just sort of kept doing it.

This last job I took in October and I knew I was like I don't think this is going to be successful but I'm going to take it.

My boss who was usually based out of North Carolina was up for the week to cover someone's vacation.

Early one Thursday morning she called me into a conference room. They're just like it's not

working out your insurance ends at midnight. Do you have any questions? So then I'm back in

my car and it's 820 and I'm sitting in traffic to try to get back into the city and I said

I don't have to sit in traffic right now I can go do whatever I want so I just

went to Starbucks which is what you do when you get fired and it's 830 on a

Thursday morning I just was like all right this is the next step. I've been laid off I've been

fired before so it's like I'm pretty resilient now but it's still really hard and it really crushes your confidence.

Before Aaron Morrow lost her job, she had another big problem weighing her down her love life I'm 44 no

children single professional lady never been married some of you may know

Erin because she recently let the Boston Globe's love letters

podcast chronicle her steps and missteps in the dating world. I've tried it all I've done

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