Tag: work
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At 31 I’m finally fulfilling my travel dream
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to pack a rucksack, fly off to far-away lands and expand my knowledge of the world, myself and life through the medium of travel. But it turns out adulthood is full of these sticky little complications. Utility bills, for instance. Careers. Responsibilities. Things that you can’t […]
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Here’s the trick to mastering the work from home (WFH) life
Every day I write about working from home (while working from home) for my job as content editor for a company that sells the noble dream of a workplace utopia in which every employee is super active, happy and smashing business targets like excited puppies. Business puppies. Because I write about working from home every […]
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Mindfulness: what is it and is it good, or is it a load of bollocks?
Mindfulness definitely sounds like a load of bollocks. It’s the sort of word that sounds like it was made up by an American women’s magazine columnist in an article about how she went to find herself at a yoga retreat up a mountain in Goa. Surprisingly, this is not the case. The word mindfulness was […]
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A pilgrimage to Tremough campus
I wasn’t ready for uni to end. It went by in a happy, hedonistic flash and before I knew it I was trussed up in one of those standard ‘office girl’ shift dresses staring at a computer screen churning out generic website content about things like coronary heart disease and diabetes which – let’s face […]
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Diary of a redundant writer: Day two
This is just going to be a quick one because I’ve just seen the time! Not that I need a reasonable bedtime now that I’m ‘superfluous’. It’s the end of my second day of redundancy. I cleared out our spare room, dismantled my drum kit and piled it on top of the wardrobes to make […]
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Oh dear I’m ‘redundant’
At work earlier this afternoon I was summoned into a meeting room and made redundant, with immediate effect. I am ‘no longer needed or useful; superfluous’, according to the Google definition.
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14 things I learned as an editor
I’m moving on from my current job as a magazine editor, which I’m excited about but also sad.
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There’s a hobnob in my draw
I thought I’d post a mini update on day 4 of my 33 day challenge, seeing as it’s my lunch break and it’s too rainy outside to go for a walk…
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