“If there’s two different companies offering the same job, you’re going to go with the company that is giving you more and giving you that work-life balance. We don’t need to be that office hero and go to work when we’re sick. It’s now frowned upon, where three years ago that was almost an expectation where no matter what, you’re at work.”

A new year has dawned, and as with the start of every new rotation around the sun, we try to think on our expectations of the coming days and weeks rather than dwell on past events.

This has been a punishing year for Canadians, even without an official pandemic to tamp down our spirits, as the cost of everything has climbed higher this past year: gas, Hydro, food, renovation materials, you name it. If those who run the world could find a way to monetize and tax the air we breathe, no doubt they would likely do so.

There’s a reason Strother Martin’s most famous line from “Cool Hand Luke” has endured for so long.