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Paying lip service to scientific research

Paying lip service to scientific research

I have bad news for some of you. There’s no easy or gentle way to break it, so I might as well just wade on in there. Here’s the thing: If you have a flat top lip line, you are passionless. Now I know that’s hard news to take, but I want no argument or [...]

The craziest question you have ever been asked at an interview is?

This post relates to an article written for JobMob entitiled Tricky Job Interview Questions and Answers.  It’s the $5K Guest Blogging Contest . Go and take a look and then come back and read the rest of the post (it makes no sense otherwise ) Sarah, our esteemed editor suggested I write an article and [...]

10 Things You Should Know About Women and The Number 32

It’s late Friday afternoon as I type this, just after the end of the traditional working day and coming up to a long weekend here in the UK with the August Bank Holiday looming. Blimey, I hope the weather improves… we’ve just had a flash of lightning and a thunder clap explode overhead… Anyway, the [...]

5 Compelling Reasons to Question Seeing is Believing

“Seeing is believing”, so the saying goes. Then there’s: “I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes…”, and “What the eye sees the heart believes” They’re all along similar lines and mean basically that seeing is physical (or concrete) evidence that is convincing and can be relied upon to [...]

New Job – First Week Faux Pas

I have ventured into the world of paid work for the first time in two whole years, having been made redundant two years ago from running a mortgage business for an AIM listed business.  With a chunky payout in hand and 24 years of stressful career ladder climbing behind me I decided time was to [...]

In Her Shoes

In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell

In her shoes is a series  of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]

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