Your Job Will Never Love You Back

This is Megan Greenwell’s last week as your Work Friend. A newer, shinier Work Friend will debut in two weeks. Send questions to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be edited. When Your Crappy Job Is Not the Real Problem I’m a litigation attorney and am absolutely…

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36 Hours in Rijeka, Croatia

If Croatia’s seaside locales have become tourism starlets, then Rijeka, a working-class port city on the Adriatic, is the country’s gritty understudy. So, it came as some surprise when this town, whose skyline merges Hapsburgian decadence with shipyard cranes, was named European Capital of Culture for 2020 over other Croatian candidates like Dubrovnik and Split.…

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Men, Your Bald Spot Looks Great

The embarrassment many men feel about losing their hair doesn’t diminish over the generations. What changes are the available treatments and the coping strategies. For instance, our fathers didn’t have Tressless, since 2011 Reddit’s “most popular online community for hair loss and balding,” where users post selfies of their hairline for crowdsourced advice, and debate…

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