An award-winning UK dad blog
I'm delighted to announce that Diary of the Dad is a finalist in the blog category of the Sussex Digital Awards! The awards take place in April and celebrate those that have used digital media to achieve greater things, so I'm proud to be acknowledged as doing so. When I quit my job just over 18 months ago, I ...
I've been my own boss for a year now. A year and a day, actually, given the existence of 29 February. A whole 366 days without pointless meetings, petty office politics, red tape, commuter hell and overpriced coffee. As you can probably tell, I don't miss my old existence at all. It was making me stressed, tired ...
Happy National Freelancers Day! In a little over a month, I'll have been my own boss for a whole year. When I quit my well-paid but completely miserable existence at a red tape obsessed organisation last summer, I wasn't sure it would work out. But I took the leap of faith and haven't looked back since. We're ...
Today is exactly three months since I left my old job to go freelance. I'm significantly poorer financially, but so much happier so I know I made the right choice. There have been a few teething problems as well as the stresses you'd expect about being both my own boss and the only earner in the family, but ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
