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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZYLO2A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=biip_090519_how-to-do-laundry-when-traveling-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01LZYLO2A&amp;linkId=67c09c52da8c84738df2d9817de8d1c5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Amazon</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></strong></a></p><ul class="summary-list"><li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Doing laundry while traveling can be downright annoying - from pricey hotel laundry fees to finding a local laundromat.</strong></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>We've broken down the steps and products you need to make washing clothes while traveling hassle-free. </strong></li><li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Start by packing low-maintenance, lightweight clothes that are quick drying, and bring along</strong><strong> few compact laundry supplies like a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HHYFE2K/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=biip_090519_how-to-do-laundry-when-traveling-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01HHYFE2K&amp;linkId=44b5dbf1ba86997a6e49ab777d8a1575" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stain removal pen</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N32J44Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=biip_090519_how-to-do-laundry-when-traveling-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B07N32J44Q&amp;linkId=f2aed4b47047cd532c78d4937ed91a70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detergent sheets</a>, a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZYLO2A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=biip_090519_how-to-do-laundry-when-traveling-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01LZYLO2A&amp;linkId=67c09c52da8c84738df2d9817de8d1c5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">travel clothesline</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01D58R1BE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=biip_090519_how-to-do-laundry-when-traveling-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01D58R1BE&amp;linkId=0c377f78c54b518872bf1a7496a22f4e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mesh laundry bags</a>. You'll be able to have fresh, clean garments for every leg of your journey.</strong></li></ul><p>The last thing you want to deal with when traveling, whether for vacation or business, is laundry. With baggage fees and restrictions on airlines and cruise ships, packing light is practically essential, but you still need clean clothes for an extended trip. </p><p>Start by making smart choices when you pack by choosing low-maintenance clothing. Darker colors will usually last better through multiple wearings than light colors. Choose separates in one or two color families so you can mix and match outfits. This will also make laundry more simple because the colors can be washed together. Always opt for lightweight fabrics like silk,  microfiber, and other synthetics that don't wrinkle easily and will dry quickly. </p><p>To avoid hotel or resort laundry fees, having a few laundry supplies on hand will allow you to pack lightly and have plenty of clean clothes. 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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div>Exactly 114 days ago I quit my first 'real world' job. I know the exact number of days because I traded in my source of income for a blog, and recorded one thought a day as an unemployed 22-year-old with a cloudy vision for what came next. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time.</p><p>I had been working for a non-profit organization, mentoring <span>underprivileged middle schoolers,</span> and introducing them to the game of tennis. I was excited to share my love of the sport with the students, and hoped that it could open doors for them, as it had for me.</p><p>What I experienced during those two months could not have been farther from what I had imagined.</p><p>I will not go into the details, but my role as "Tennis Coordinator" in practice failed to match the job description that I had been thrilled and eager to step into. I found myself feeling overwhelmingly unsatisfied and unfulfilled at the end of each day. I was fatigued and broken, and it began to seep into my personal life. My typical optimistic and happy-as-a-clam self started to laugh less. I complained more, was quick to agitate, and lost touch with those closest to me. And so, I somehow found it in me to say, "no, not anymore!" </p><p>I quit my job a long time ago - 114 days is a lot of days. The emotions aren't as vivid - the heat of the moment has passed - and the memory of the process is faded. However, I jotted down some "game time thoughts" from that fateful day, and I will never forget the pure wave of relief that washed over me the moment I left the office building for good. There were tears and the shakes and more tears, but there was <em>relief.</em></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Quitting took every ounce of my courage. The only reason I had been staying put in my position was because I was terrified of quitting my first job; I was afraid of how my team of coworkers would react and I was afraid of how my family, friends and acquaintances would react. I was terrified of being mislabeled as a "quitter." </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Those are not good reasons to stay put at a job that you hate.</span></p><p>My "game time thoughts" from October 19 read in purple pen in a Moleskine notebook:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">I cried and cried and felt guilty, hopeless, scared, shameful, etc… But then I got completely over it! I laughed and cracked a joke for the first time in two months. I genuinely smiled. I actually got truly excited for Monday, the day I would NOT go into work, but rather, the day I would start searching for <em>meaningful, fulfilling </em>work. What lies ahead is exciting! There's opportunity, <em>options</em>, a whole world out there that I can choose to navigate as I please.</p><p>Quitting is scary. The unknown is scary. Lack of income - <em>scary</em>. If fear is the only thing keeping you in the office though, I encourage you to take a scary risk.</p><p>After getting over the "scary part" I seemed to arrive at an equally scary chapter in my life - the chapter where I was stuck with a year long lease in a brand new city, lacked income, and could not formulate a plan for anything past the next 60 minutes of my life.</p><p>And so I thought back to something the cofounder of Netflix, Marc Randolph, once told me at a summer entrepreneurship program I had participated in. He said that the key to innovation is starting with a personal problem - simple or complex - and then thinking of a way to fix it. That is how great ideas emerge. He reassured me that inventions, discovery, and innovation are far from being extinct - even in such a technology driven society that has seemingly generated every gadget, tool, or idea possible - because problems continue to surface. And where there exists a problem, exists innovation.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right click-to-enlarge"><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Little Fish. Big Pond." title_caption="My blog, Little Fish Big Pond, which I started the day I quit." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54dd0f006da811b17f8b4568-960/kathleen-1.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.littlefishbigpond.org/">Little Fish. Big Pond.</a></span></p><p class="caption">My blog, Little Fish Big Pond, which I started the day I quit.</p></div><p></p></div>I had a <em>big </em>problem. One that was a bit more philosophical or existential than the inaccessibility of DVDs. It was not necessarily more complex or important than that conundrum that Netflix conquered, just different.</p><p>My problem was that by society's standards, I was an adult. Graduated college? Check. Turned 21 and sampled some adult beverages? Check. Moved out of my parents' house? Check. While it may not always feel like it, I <em>am </em>an adult - a 22-year-ol<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">d one with</span> a Spanish degree from an excellent Liberal Arts college. All of this meant that that age old question, "what do you want to be when you grow up?<em>"</em> had expired for me. It was no longer a fun icebreaker or fourth-grade poster-board project. It was "supposed to be" answered by now.</p><p>Answering that question was my problem.</p><p>My solution - my innovation, or "Netflix" per se - became my personal blog, <a href="http://www.littlefishbigpond.org/">Little Fish. Big Pond.</a> I turned to the one thing that I have always found comfort and stability in - writing - and I used that tool to help myself navigate the confusing, unemployed, and career-seeking situation I found myself in.</p><p>After 79 days of introduction emails and informational phone ca<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">lls; i</span>mpulsive inbox checking, LinkedIn stalking and résumé tune-ups; and 79 days of limbo, doubt, and unemployment, I received lovely news that now has me wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in a vibrant newsroom on Fifth Avenue.</p><p>Someone asked me shortly after I accepted the position, "So that means you're done blogging, right? There's nothing left to write about." The thought had been in the back of my mind for a while - this question of what becomes of the Little Fish. Big Pond project once I secure a job.</p><p>I still blog. My project continues because my journey continues. I may have been offered an incredible opportunity in the industry I hope to thrive in, but that does not instantly solve the original problem I started with. It does not answer that age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I still have questions that need answering, and most importantly, I still have the writing bug. I am still itching to write, itching to use writing as a tool - as a way to self-reflect, learn from my experiences, and hopefully help others who find themselves in similar situations.</p><p><span>To answer that person: No. I am not going anywhere. I may have an internship, but that doesn't make me a big fish. That doesn't give me all the answers, nor is it the end of the journey. Rather, it's a beginning. An </span><em>exciting </em><span>beginning.</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I would not be at the start of this exciting beginning has I not said "no</span>" a<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">nd quit. It's an interesting position to be in as a "millennial," the group that the media has labeled as a "generation of quitters" who flirt with job after job and leave out of boredom. A recent <a href="http://millennialbranding.com/2013/cost-millennial-retention-study/">Millennial Branding report</a> found that 60% of millennials leave their company in less than three years, and the media is quick to blame this statistic on boredom or indifference. That is not always the case. Your 20s is a time to explore career paths; it is a time for experimentation, failure, and learning from that failure. It is impossible to know exactly what you want to <em>be</em> or <em>do</em> right out of college. It's not about finding that perfect fit right away; it's about exploring, making mistakes, taking risks, and learning when to say "no"<em> </em>and when to say "yes<em>." </em></span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-archive-2014-1">Zuckerberg: Why I Stayed Facebook CEO Even Though Many Thought I Should Quit</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="JxbGE3MTpRPrcLIrXPI6vtCOdemNDQzh" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Why I quit my first 'real' job at 22 after only 2 months

<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source">REUTERS/Molhem Barakat </p><p class="caption">A fighter from Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra inspects a resident's identification papers at a checkpoint in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr, October 26, 2013. </p></div></div></div></span>BEIRUT (Reuters) - When he was agitating for revolution, urging fellow Syrians to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad, Abdullah dreaded the midnight knock at the door from the secret police.</p>
<p>Now that the uprising has succeeded in his home town near Aleppo, pro-democracy activists are living in fear again - and this time those who brand them "traitor" don't bother to knock.</p>
<p>Two years ago, after Abdullah broke off his studies to run social media campaigns against Assad, he was held and tortured by security men. This summer, it happened again - only now it was Islamist gunmen loyal to al Qaeda who smashed into his family's house, broke everything in their way and took him off to a cell where, once more, he was blindfolded and beaten.</p>
<p>"The sad thing is that those who were doing this were not Assad's police," Abdullah told Reuters from Turkey, where he managed to flee after his latest ordeal. "They were fighters who were supposed to be fighting for freedom, our freedom.</p>
<p>"Back then they called me 'traitor' for demanding freedom. These armed men also tortured me for calling for freedom."</p>
<p>His story is increasingly familiar across northern <keyword id="6354913" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Syria">Syria</keyword>, where Assad's government has ceded territory to a bewildering array of rival militias. The rising power is militant Islam and men who see democracy as the work of the devil, or the West, a system contrary to their hopes for a state ruled by religion.</p>
<p>Abdullah's experience also highlights the fragmentation of Syria's opposition, which greatly complicates new international efforts to end a civil war that has killed over 100,000.</p>
<p>Reuters spoke to 19 Syrians who describe themselves as activists for democracy. All gave similar accounts of violence and intimidation by militant Islamists in northern areas no longer controlled by Assad's "mukhabarat" security services.</p>
<p>Most were students when Syria's Arab Spring protests began in March 2011. All got involved in publicizing demonstrations - and documenting Assad's crackdown on them - using social media. They went on, as self-taught journalists, to provide images and reports for Syrians and international media as the war spread.</p>
<p>Some, like Abdullah, have now had to flee for their lives.</p>
<p>They, and those still inside Syria, say Islamist militants have begun a campaign to silence them and free speech in general. Last month, two media activists were shot dead in broad daylight in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city. Some have been seized and are being held. Others have simply disappeared.</p>
<h3>AL QAEDA FEAR</h3>
<p>In particular, those who spoke recounted the fear spread by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The al Qaeda-linked group, dominated by foreigners blooded in other wars, from Libya to Iraq and Afghanistan, does not tolerate critics.</p>
<p>"It is impossible for me to go to Syria now. I am wanted by the regime and by al Qaeda," said Rami Jarrah, who ran a radio station in the city of Raqqa until early October, when ISIL gunmen shut it down and took away one of his colleagues.</p>
<p>Now living in Turkey, from where Radio ANA continues to broadcast into Syria, Jarrah won early fame among "media activists" in 2011, employing the English of his British education to forge an international reputation blogging from Damascus, where foreign news organizations had little access.</p>
<p>When a pen-name - "Alexander Page" - failed to shield his identity, he fled the country but returned later to "liberated" northern Syria, where he helped set up broadcasting in Raqqa.</p>
<p>The station's mistake, he said, was to open its airwaves to phone-in callers venting grievances against the Islamists:</p>
<p>"People were calling in and saying ISIL did this and did that. 'They closed my shop' or 'attacked my wife and forced the hijab on her'," Jarrah said. The militants, online themselves, accused him of "atheism" and put a price on his head.</p>
<p>Journalists have long faced suspicion and harassment from rebels, gunmen forcing them to stop filming, sometimes seizing equipment or raiding apartments and cafes where they have set up "media centers" to share and distribute videos and reports.</p>
<p>But in recent months, events have taken a more sinister turn. Several of those working in Aleppo have gone missing. In some cases, their bodies have been found - tortured, shot and left on the street. Friends and relatives of others have been told by militants that the activists have been arrested.</p>
<p>Hazem Dakel, from Idlib, described what that could mean.</p>
<p>Now also living in Turkey, his ordeal began when two men on a motorbike forced his car to a halt after he had been filming in an area run by ISIL. Held in a house, they accused him of "opposing Islam". He was lucky, and escaped through a window.</p>
<p>If he had any doubt what would have happened had he stayed, a call from one of his captors to an acquaintance still in Syria has since removed it: "They were planning to execute me on the night I escaped," Dakel said. "They were going to take me to a notorious abandoned factory where they execute people."</p>
<h3>UNDER SURVEILLANCE</h3>
<p>The militant Islamists have won respect among Syrians in the north, partly by their fighting mettle, party by imposing order where feuding among rival rebel warlords had broken out, partly by ensuring supplies of food and medicines. But for democratic activists, that does not excuse other failings.</p>
<p>"Our problem with them is ideological," said Jarrah. "They want to force their ideology without asking our opinion.</p>
<p>"The regime deprived us of freedom of expression and they are doing the same," he added. "Anyone liberal - or not Islamic enough according to their standards - is getting arrested. They want all local radios to broadcast from a centre they control."</p>
<p>Jarrah said he knows of at least 60 activists who have been detained by al Qaeda gunmen or have simply gone missing.</p>
<p>One man still living in rebel-controlled territory near the central city of Hama described the fear that still forces him to conceal his identity - as he did when Assad held the area.</p>
<p>"I live in a liberated country area near Hama and I walk around looking over my shoulder all the time," he said. "It is like we are back to the old days when we were running from the mukhabarat. But now we are running from our Islamist brothers."</p>
<p>Though he himself favors an Islamic state, the activist said that his online condemnations of sectarian killings of civilians who belonged to Assad's Alawite minority prompted warnings from Islamist militants that he should keep quiet.</p>
<p>Like the government's security service, Islamist groups keep a close eye on what activists are saying on the Web.</p>
<p>"They know everything," an activist from Deir al-Zor said. "One word can get you killed or make you disappear ... They look for our names, what we said to this newspaper or to that magazine. They watch us like hawks. And then they act."</p>
<p>Rami Jarrah and others were publicly condemned in an online post under the headline: "Western agents in Raqqa, or democracy activists? In religious terms, is there much difference?"</p>
<p>In the middle of a civil war that shows little sign of abating despite international plans for a peace conference in January, Syrians have limited means to oppose the armed groups.</p>
<p>Jarrah said those who campaigned for free speech must bear some blame for their predicament: "We used to say 'It's OK, they believe in God and fight on the frontlines'," he said.</p>
<p>"So we ignored their atrocities."</p>
<p>Abdullah, the activist who fled Aleppo province, argued that the experience of standing up to the Assad family after four decades of submission would mean Syrians may more quickly break the new "barrier of fear" to speak up against al Qaeda.</p>
<p>There have been signs of anti-Islamist demonstrations.</p>
<p>Some people filmed themselves marching this month outside a building in Aleppo where they believed ISIL was holding fellow activists. A video on YouTube shows about 30 of them chanting: "Shame! Shame! Kidnapped in free, rebel territory!"</p>
<p>But, just as Assad accuses his opponents of playing stooges to foreign powers, militant Islamists in Syria say they will not heed complaints from activists they also view as traitors.</p>
<p>One Syrian blogger who is close to another al Qaeda-linked group, al-Nusra Front, dismissed accounts of oppression and intimidation from democratic activists as exaggerated and intended to "please the West" by slandering Islamists.</p>
<p>"Those who accuse Islamists of violations," he said, "Are following a Western agenda."</p>
<p>(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)</p>

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