Dear potential employers, I know I only wrote to you last week, but as it’s transfer deadline day and because my Dad always explained everything to me via the medium of football analogies when I was young, I thought I’d try combining these two facts and try to turn them to my advantage. Three weeks …
Month: January 2014
I don’t mind admitting that I’ve been a little stressed of late. The job search, the subsequent uncertainty about moving house now I may be temporarily ‘sans vocation’ and an assortment of other first world problems have left me feeling rather up against it all. As a result, I *may* have become a little more …
Dear would-be employer, I know you get more people going for each job than you actually have up for grabs, so I thought I’d try something a bit different in the hope of standing out from that pesky crowd. A month from today, my fixed-term contract is coming to an end. I’ve loved this job …
Aren’t memes brilliant? Well I like them anyway and I’ve been tagged in this one by that thoroughly bloody nice chap known to the blogging world as English Dad. It was started by Oh So Amelia and it’s a belter. The idea is to look back on blogs and blogging in 2013 and there are three rules …
I’ve been in a bit of a funk of late. It’s mostly the normal time-of-year stuff but I’ve been feeling sorry for myself about other things too. My 12-month contract job – which I’ve loved and really hoped would lead to a permanent role – is coming to an end next month and I’ve been …
I’ve always been happy to talk to people and like to think that I’ve got quite good at it. I work in communications too, so knowing how to converse with different people is one of my strengths – or so you’d think. You see, I’m engaged in an epic battle with Dylan at the moment …
I spent a good chunk of the Christmas holidays watching animated films while Dylan and Xander who, having campaigned tirelessly to have them put on, naff off to empty the kitchen cupboards or chase each other around, shouting “bum bum to you”. I’m so proud. As a result, I’ve been immersed in so many anthropomorphic …