Series 1 Episode 15 of bookcareers.com Live This week’s episode of bookcareers Live is about Work Life Balance. So many of us now have demanding always-on jobs; our work lives are encroaching into our personal lives and it is very hard to get switch-off time when you go home. This episode covers some key points to […]
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Our penultimate post for National Careers Week concerns something that a number of people have a problem with – work/life balance. It is so easy to say yes to everything you’ve been invited to or asked to do by your boss (or manage if you are the boss!). This blog is in the form of […]
I recently tried an experiment: I went on holiday and, for the first time since mobile phones began, I turned my mobile phone off. Feeling very brave I also set up an ‘out of the office’ auto-reply on all my emails. It said the following: I know you might find this hard to believe but […]
Over the years I have worked with a number of freelancers, from those starting their freelance careers to established freelancers whose work has dried up. These are the nine deadly sins that I’ve found most freelancers make: 1. Not managing your time. There are a million reasons why you chose to go freelance, and one […]
In the past year I have had to help an increasing number of clients through work-related stress, caused by juggling their personal and professional online lives, so I was intrigued when a copy of The Digital Diet landed on my desk. It describes itself as ‘the 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain […]
