“While a lot of my workload is technical, the rest of it is really meaningful”
I work best with a buzz of people in the background, but absolutely no music, especially not songs with English lyrics, because when you’re writing emails with half an ear on the music, words from the song in the background have a way of sneaking themselves into your email….
When my manager can’t find a single mistake in that month’s payment spreadsheet.
My predecessor, Lori Friedman Safrin, taught me not to rely on memory, and to make sure to get everything in writing. With so many tiny details to keep track of, this comes in handy on a daily (hourly?) basis.
Raised in Manchester, UK, Libby Livshin, Mishpacha’s administrator, has been living in Israel for six and a half years. She worked as a school secretary in Manchester, and then as a grant writer for Israeli nonprofits in a yishuv just outside Yerushalayim before joining the Mishpacha team. From eagerly reading Mishpacha Jr. comics as a kid before graduating to Binyamin Rose’s Seriously Speaking as a teen, Libby has always been an avid Mishpacha fan. Now she’s back to starting with the comics, because like everybody else, Libby flips to the Kichels first. (In general, she probably shouldn’t be reading the magazine on Shabbos, because she has to stop herself from subconsciously noting payroll entries for each page.)
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