Outwardly, I appear to be confident, and to some extent, I am. However it has become more and more clear to me that somewhere over the years I have allowed myself to skew the lines between... Read More
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As I hit my 35th birthday this September I also hit that moment in my life where I realised the point of my career was not about ‘the money’.
As I reflect on my career cho... Read More
I have been through many many corporate training days, diversity training days, women in business seminars and management training courses in my career and so feel qualified to create a tick list of ... Read More
We are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary next week. Where did the time go? Being 10 years married makes me feel older than my own age does.
My husband and I were talking in the... Read More
Most of the time I don’t think much about being a working parent or the fact I’m half of a couple of working parents. Our daily juggle is not remarkable and has been our life f... Read More
Ten months after coming back from maternity leave I now find myself in job number three. Given that I am not a contractor this has been quite a high number of new starts in under a year!
To clar... Read More
I will never forget the morning that I resigned from my previous job. In truth, I had been planning my resignation meeting in my head for months. But when the time finally came, I was woefully unprep... Read More
When I wrote my last blog it was May and we were literally on our knees. I can’t bear to re-read my brutally honest words. What a difference a few months can make. The chink o... Read More
Remember my first blog for the year where I said I was aiming to relaunch my career in 2020 as I had felt stuck for a while especially since having my kids? Well, that definitely isn’t going to... Read More
Taking a reflection on my career over the last 12 years has been a mixture of opportunities, meeting preparation, success, taking risks, going with the flow, disappointments, frustrations and al... Read More
For a number of reasons, it became apparent last year that I wasn’t going to progress in my then-current role. When I had originally applied for the position my employer had been sceptica... Read More
Three months ago, I decided to take the semi-calculated risk of leaving my current employer, without having a job-offer in place for another position.
For a single parent, with ever-increa... Read More
I have decided I am Schrödinger’s cat.
For those of you who are not up on your quantum mechanics or fans of “The Big Bang Theory” here’s a layman’s guide to wh... Read More
Flexible working conditions while maintaining career trajectory – we talk about it all time and it can often seem like the Holy Grail – a tricky quest that I for one have often wondered d... Read More
Following from my last blog “No llama, no drama" where I detailed my childcare nightmare situation, I’m happy to report new Nanny has settled in well and picked up our routine with m... Read More
I am writing this as the new year has started. Every new year whilst I think of meaningful resolutions (most of which are broken by this time!), I tell myself I will somehow find a way to better bala... Read More
It is invariably the case that pride comes before a fall (I think) and I am no less guilty than the next person for having moments (albeit quiet ones, mostly) of self-congratulation which inevitably ... Read More
Five little words but yet with such potent qualities that can make the difference between a healthy stress free day and a meltdown.
Some days I find myself spread so thin, having promised ... Read More
Following on from Ellen’s blog on the “Communication Code of Conduct” a couple of weeks ago, and having had a variety of testing experiences since then, it got me thinking about c... Read More