Location can be very important when you’re working on your career. Most cities and towns will have their own specialities, with large parts of the population pitching in, making it hard for those who want to do something different. Of course, there is always the option of moving away, but it can be hard to tell if this is the right course of action to take. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring the idea of moving for money, along with the benefits and negatives which come with it. Continue reading “Is It Worth Moving For Money?”
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Here’s How You Could Add Way More Hours to Your Day
It’s true that a 25-hour day isn’t going to happen, and although that would be great, there really isn’t anything that you can do to literally extend the day. There are things that you can do, however, to make the day feel longer than it actually is. If you want to feel as though your days are so much longer, then you can find out everything you need to know right here. Continue reading “Here’s How You Could Add Way More Hours to Your Day”
A Writer’s Guide To Finding Inspiration Around The Home
If you’ve ever cursed your job as you frantically check your watch in backed up traffic, dreading the conversation with your boss when you roll in late. If you’ve even fought through rain and sleet among busy streets thronging with commuters. If you’ve ever felt your heart sink when a voice on the radio tells you that a broken down vehicle is causing significant delays on the motorway home, you may feel that working from home is some sort of elysian paradise, however optimistic you try to be about your commute. The allure of the home office may be a romantic notion to commuters on a dark and rainy November morning. Continue reading “A Writer’s Guide To Finding Inspiration Around The Home”
Surviving Working From Home During The School Holidays
If you are a parent that works from home you will know that once the school holidays begin your work/home life balance will take a nose dive. No matter how good your intentions are to be the ‘perfect’ all rounder, in reality, something has to give because there is no way you can continue with the same workload whilst trying to entertain the little ones… or not so little ones!
This has been a new concept for me as I Continue reading “Surviving Working From Home During The School Holidays”
The Curse Of Trying To Do It All
I’m not quite sure how I’ve got to this point, in actual fact, I have been preaching since I started blogging that you time is important and about how you shouldn’t forget who you are yet here I am, sat almost a year on worn out from simply trying to do it all and being on top of everything.
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Our New Routine
You may remember how just over a month ago I was upset at the thought of losing my little guy to pre-school for 12.5 hours a week and I wrote a tongue in cheek post to make light of it all.
Well, here we are in the first week of February and I thought Continue reading “Our New Routine”
Re-Discovering Yourself After Becoming a Mother
I have always been a worker. I started out doing a paper round after school, went on to have a Saturday job at 16 and after leaving college I decided that working was for me and not studying. I worked my way up in a well-known retailer and had such a passion for it that you would have thought I owned the shop myself. After leaving this job to pursue a new career as a teaching assistant I unexpectedly fell pregnant very quickly (we had tried the year before but after 4 months nothing had happened. Just goes to show what a new job can do for you!) I went on maternity and had planned to return to work but my new found motherly attachment had other plans! I knew I had to be at home with him and I knew I wouldn’t have been happy going back into full-time work.
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