My ultimate job would be to work on Mythbusters. Yes, geek girl, party of one. And no, the reason isn’t just because they blow things up. Sure, that’s part of it, but I also enjoy the myths without explosions. What I love is that they love their jobs. You see the highs and […]
Month: June 2012
Massage
In November 2010 I was on a Corporate Retreat. The retreat itself wasn’t going too well, but there was one thing people were looking forward to with a mix of excitement and fear. Free massages. The retreat was a good idea to iron out some things within the company – but it was […]
Job + family time = no!
I don’t want to hate on my job or the culture of big businesses, but the other day at work I heard something that made me both sad & happy. Someone made a reference to the time they fired a great employee just because he would leave on time – he thought his family […]
Regrets
This may sound like a strange thing to say, but I don’t believe in regrets. I think that if you have regrets then you haven’t learned from your mistakes. Sure, I’ve done things that were stupid and in hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have done! I did a lot of these as a teenager […]
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6 months of savings
At the end of June 2011 my well paying contract at work ended. I’ve never just walked into a job the way some people do but I don’t usually struggle too much. I don’t know what was going on last year, but it was hard. I spent months going to many interviews a […]
Perpetual Student
I love to learn. I never particularly liked school but did want to go to university. My education was always a little messed around. I went to four primary schools (in Australia and the UK) and two high schools (in Australia). I took a year off after high school, then did my first […]
Rut
My blog has been a bit quiet the past week or two. I occasionally vented on twitter, but I haven’t really posted. I’ve had about two straight weeks where I just feel like nothing can go right. Nothing is big, but so many little things going wrong is just adding up and making me […]