For the last few months, like anybody else who is able to, I have been working from home. It hasn’t actually been a massive adjustment because I had only just got used to being back in the office full-time after either being on post-operrative sick leave or because of an immune system suppressed through chemotherapy […]
Entries Tagged as 'Work'
Working from home
May 13th, 2020 · Comments Off on Working from home · Life, Technology, Work
Tags: Commuting·Coronavirus
Normal service
March 4th, 2019 · Comments Off on Normal service · Life, Work
After a couple of months of absence and working from home, I went back into work today. I don’t think I will be in all day, every day, but going in on a Monday morning is an attempt to get back to normality. Of course it is only temporary. Either I will be going in […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Getting On
February 26th, 2019 · Comments Off on Getting On · Life, Work
I don’t really feel my age. I don’t know why this is, because my body certainly does – I am slower, weaker, less flexible and creak a lot more than I used to, but somehow I don’t really feel any different than I ever did. That all changed a bit this week. I am in […]
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Nothing new
September 2nd, 2017 · Comments Off on Nothing new · Life, Work
The other day at work I was really chuffed for a couple of hours. Chuffed because I came up with a phrase that I was really pleased with. Only a couple of hours because I Googled my newly-coined term and found that it was not so new after all, and several places were already using […]
Tags: Language
Nearly there
July 16th, 2014 · Comments Off on Nearly there · Work
So there I was last week. I was at a Bid and Project Management convention. Had my laptop all set up to do a product demo of a new tool that is nearly finished, checking emails on the BlackBerry and handing out business cards to anybody who showed an interest in our product, and it […]
Tags: Risk
Through the looking glass
September 11th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Work
Back to work tomorrow after two days of training. Being on training courses is a strange and pleasant experience, like a verson of work through the looking glass. You are still in a corporate-branded environment but you need not even look at a computer all day. The food is the same as in the normal […]
Tags: WILT
Bright idea – CVs revisited
September 6th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
Soon after my scribblings about CVs I found that somebody I know has not only had a bright idea about CVs but has actually done something about it. She has done her own CV as an infographic: It is certainly eye-catching, though it would probably be more successful in jobs that are in some sort […]
Tags: Bright Ideas·Infographics
Working from home
August 30th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
I think I will be the only person in my department who is not working from home tomorrow. I think I will do my bit for team solidarity and integrating properly with my colleagues by turning up at the office in my pyjamas so I can work the same way as everybody else.
Tags: Commuting
Daytripping
April 26th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Life, Work
Wednesday was a bit of a long day. I found myself booked on a one-day course that was 100% mandatory In Glasgow And I decided to do it as a day trip. My four colleagues went up Tuesday afternoon, but I figured that since I live right next to the airport it was feasible to […]
First day of term
October 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Work
Today was one of those days when a whole new tranche of graduates joins the company. As with policemen and teachers, as you get older the graduates seem to be younger every year. When I went to lunch I walked into the staff restaurant and thought I had taken a wrong turning into a school […]
Tags: Technology
