Life is hard
Having finished my FYP I was hoping I could relax a little. But instead I find my timetable full because I’m having to trail everywhere and re-arrange my timetable so I can do all these job interviews....
View ArticleThe inquisition has begun
Yesterday saw my first job interview in a long time. Despite my title, it was actually the most relaxed interview we’ve ever done. It felt more like a conversation than an interview. And while I really...
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My two cents on graduate jobs
Here’s an interesting fact you may not know (or to be fair, even find interesting). The American expression “my two cents” is actually just an Americanised version of the original British idiom “my two...
View ArticleState of the job market
The recent global recession has been a real boom time for me. I’ve switched jobs several times and now gone self employed. When I was lead developer over at Buzz we couldn’t hire people fast enough,...
View ArticleSeriously, quit your job
To be clear, you shouldn’t quit your job. Well, maybe you should. In any case, read on… We’re all trapped like rats in a capitalist system, right? None of us enjoy going to work. Sure, many of us are...
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Gaming the system
As I discussed recently, we’re all basically rats trapped in a system where we have to sell our time, and our bodies, for the resources we need to keep us alive. So it makes sense we try and play the...
View ArticleJob hopping
Last month, I wrote about how I had increased my income significantly by switching jobs. This isn’t always the case though. Indeed, Business Insider recently published an article suggesting that people...
View ArticleReference points, and pay reviews
In 2012 I wrote about the economic advantages I had experienced by moving companies. Although it is of course an extremely limited dataset, I had witnessed a consistent and pronounced difference...
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