My rant on New Year’s resolutions notwithstanding, I’ve decided to go ahead and make some nonetheless. In attempting to keep them realistic and meaningful, the general theme is mostly an extension of stuff I’ve already started, with a focus on being more consistent at pursuing those things.So, *drum roll* here are my New Year’s Resolutions [...]
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My New Year’s resolutions
Posted in Life, career, work life balance on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New job: Day 1 (inter alia)
Posted in Dating, Life, career, men, work life balance on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
*phew* I am exhausted.
I had my first day (well, in fact, it was two half-days) at my new job this week.
As expected, it was wall-to-wall meetings, but it also proved to be really interesting, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. No doubt I’ll blog more on that after I’ve officially [...]
Job interview from hell
Posted in Life, career, tagged job interviews on September 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I crashed and burned at a job interview on Friday. It’s difficult to quantify the comprehensiveness of my inadequacy at this job interview. I was spectacularly unimpressive. I failed to answer simple questions, didn’t articulate my selling points; I completely neglected to address key areas that are vital to the role I was applying for [...]
Top 5: Status updates for executives (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
Posted in Humour, Top 5, career, work life balance on July 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
# Top 5: Social networking status updates for executives
Suitable for use on Facebook, Twitter, or the social networking site of your choice…
I’ve been a tad disillusioned at work this week, (can you tell?!)
1. Lyn is adrift on the sea of corporate hypocrisy, clinging desolately to her life-raft of fully-benchmarked best practice stakeholder engagement mechanisms.
2. Lyn is synergising [...]
Neurotic numbness
Posted in Divorce, Feminism, Life, career, work life balance on July 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Like a scene from The Neverending Story, the Nothingness washes over my life like a tsunami – leaving only the echo of empty rhetoric painting a beige white-wash atop the decomposing elements of a promising life.
I’m feeling a tad melancholy this week…
For no particular reason, I’ve been reassessing every facet of my life:
Finances: I need [...]
Top 5: Things that would make me happy
Posted in Life, Parenting, Top 5, career, work life balance on July 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
# Top 5: Things that would make me happy
These are not the humanitarian, Earth-shattering, life-changing, societal and transformational type items, these are selfish, inconsequential things that right now, today would rather cheer my little corner of existence…
1. Finding a job I love
For most of my career, I’ve focussed on doing what fits with my family obligations, [...]
What THIS woman wants
Posted in Feminism, Parenting, career, work life balance, tagged balance, career, children, kids, perfect life, work life balance on March 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s tough being a woman these days.
You are EXPECTED to want a career. Not to want a career is to vehemently deny the sisterhood. But, as a woman, you are also EXPECTED to want children… and as any empowered woman knows, you HAVE to want a partner.
The pressure to be the perfect loving partner; the [...]
