Love your job: Why I love my job and you should love yours
I love my job. There you go. I’ve said it. I don’t care who knows it. This is my Tom-Cruise-on-Oprah moment. That was amazing. Of course we all know how THAT went, right? …sorry let me just take this call… “Hello…Yes….Yes…What?…They’ve WHAT?!?!?…When??!?!?…Oh….Oh, I see. OK Bye” Um. Anyway. Maybe ignore that last bit. But you…
Why I would love to lose my job
OK I’m going to put up front that I think that I’m going to come across as a bit of a tool in this post. More than a bit actually. Today is all about why I would really like to lose my job. I know. What a privileged, oblivious, idiot. For most people losing their…
April 2019 update: The one that’s all over the frickin’ place
Hello everyone and a belated Happy Easter to you all. Did you miss me? What do you mean that you didn’t notice I was gone? Ouch. As you may have deduced from my last post I’ve been on holiday this month. It was brilliant, but I didn’t forget about you lovely people. I had three…
“Do you want an inheritance or do you want a cruise?” Can money buy happiness?
The crowd was so silent that we could hear a gull calling overhead. Tension scrawled across every face. Our final player stepped up and, without hesitation, struck. The disc slid across the deck and landed on a seven. We threw our hands up in the air. The victorious shuffleboard player walked over to the kids. …
In praise of paying tax: A personal polemic
As Nina Simone almost certainly meant to have sung: “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new tax year for me….and I’m feeling good.” Ah yes April. The beginning of a new tax year. Empty tax-exempt saving accounts like ISA’s waiting to be filled, new pension allowances just begging to be used,…
March 2019 update: The one I wrote the morning after a stag weekend
Ah Spring. As I write this the clocks have just changed so the days are getting longer. Everywhere blossom and daffodils are exploding into bloom. The sun is shining, and Easter is just round the corner. Frankly you can’t turn around without the sap rising somewhere. And, in the middle of all of this, I’m…
“I always thought he was poor.” How shame made me waste money for years (and how I recovered)
Shame is powerful. Of all the emotions I think it’s the least rational. Like so many emotions it can only affect you if you allow it to…but it is so easy to feel embarrassed. Often this is just a fleeting feeling By the next day you’ve forgotten all about it. At other times it becomes…
February 2019 update: Emerging from hibernation and some swords
February goes by fast doesn’t it? I feel like it’s only been a few days since I was doing my January update. I like February though. The days are starting to stretch out and get warmer. In fact it turns out that we had the warmest February day since records began in the 1600s. Crumbs.…
January 2019 update: Did I undersell my goals?
I’m not one of those people that hates January. For a lot of folks it’s the toughest month of the year. I entirely get that. Heck, my wife totally feels like that. Christmas has gone but the credit card bills have to be paid. The weather’s cold, wet, and generally pretty awful. Everyone seems to…
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