Category Archives: Careers

+ What Women Want

January 25, 2011 – 4:24 pm

Women’s increased participation in the workplace is seen as evidence that with every passing day, women draw closer to fulfilling their potential. Yet the cheering and applause drown out the reality: this is not what women want. Most women don’t aspire to the kind of lives that their supposed champions are busily engineering for them. [...]

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+ 5 Ways the Recession is Good for You

October 8, 2009 – 7:40 am

Follow my blog with bloglovin Source On the face of it, the recession is pissing all over your parade. Job rejections, frozen wages and a whole tide of other downsides seek to tighten your purse strings and obliterate any opportunities coming your way. But, if the recession is a big depressing cloud of piss, at [...]

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+ Quick rant about the Job Centre and my JSA

October 5, 2009 – 10:29 am

Sometimes I wonder whether half the people who work for the public’s behalf know the meaning of common sense. A couple of weeks ago, I was offered four days’ work with a temp agency. Naturally, I jumped at the chance considering I have found it really hard to earn any money since returning to England [...]

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+ Entering an entry-level job…. It’s not easy!

August 1, 2009 – 5:38 pm

Barely a week after my return travelling and panic concerning my jobless self is setting in. Like me, you probably know a few people who have been made redundant, or those who just can’t get a job no matter how hard they try. For the first time in my life I went to the job [...]

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