Take Care of Yourself The last three weeks have been exhausting. Mostly due to stress. I did briefly utilise EAP chat to talk about the stress of discrimination in job hunting but it basically came down to “I’m sorry that’s happening to you. It is wrong. Can you do craft?” I was hoping […]
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Apparently I’m An Advocate Now
Apparently I’m An Advocate Now At least for myself… As some of you may know, the project I was working on in my day job has had some issues, and the short story is that myself (and many others) had their contract cancelled. I was expecting another 6-12 months of working there, so […]
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That’s Not Merit
At the end of 2021 I had to start looking for a job. My contract wasn’t going to be renewed due to ongoing budget cuts. I want to talk about one particular interview. This was within the Australian university sector, the same sector I was in at the time. I had an interview […]
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Digging into expectations
I’ve finally been feeling *just* well enough that I have been able to restart doing some behind the scenes work on Normal Systems. Nothing too fascinating, just finally pulling some thoughts out of my head and into draft sales pages. One offer not on the website yet will be a day of voxer type […]
The Stab and Twist
There are plenty of moments in life where you get stabbed, but also feel the knife twist inside you. Hopefully they’re all metaphorical and not real, because while the metaphorical sucks, I assume the real also really fucking hurts. I’m still trying to unpack layers of mental crap from my last job. I think […]
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Own your platforms!
A few months ago I had an idea to offer a content strategy/ideation type service on a particular platform. I wondered where I had gotten up to with it and logged into the platform. I was pretty impressed with how I was nearly done with the offer, so I decided to see if I […]
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Career Privilege
Career Privilege When I was job hunting early in 2022 I was involved in a few conversations online recently where people were talking about how only those with a level of privilege can go from one ideal job in their career to the next. What is the privilege? To be clear, the main part […]
Waiting For Autopilot
That’s how I feel right now. I’m waiting for autopilot. I’m 2.5 weeks into a new job. I want to speed past this part. It sounds ungrateful. So many people don’t have job and yet I found one before my previous job ended. And now I want to be past the newbie stage. […]
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Randoms 26
Randoms 26 Hello my linky up types. I have not linked up in quite some time. I gave up during NaNoWriMo in November because writing 50,000 words is a lot of work. Then in December I found out my contract at work is not being renewed so I had job hunting and let-it-rip related […]
Why I Swapped To PayHip
Why I Swapped To PayHip I’ve never been the biggest fan of online marketplaces (aka Amazon). I feel like they want you to spend too much time learning THEIR WAY, and yet don’t give you support if/when things go wrong. This gave me a lot of uncertainty when I first started publishing books. I […]