work/life balance
Home or Office: pick your discipline Paid Members Public
Working from home, versus corporate office life [https://opendor.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/working-from-home/]: > Discipline. Everyone talks about how much discipline you need to work at home. But how much discipline does it take to go to the same strange city office every day, for all the hours
Morning nostalgia Paid Members Public
I am having a deeply nostalgic day right now. Not only am I provisioning a new blog – just as I used to back in my days as RBI’s blogmeister – but today is a day of note, as this tweet suggests: > 12 years ago today… http://t.co/6pEPQB5AIB—
Let's try this again Paid Members Public
Well, hello, blog. I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. I’ve been terribly busy, you see. We’re right in term time at City University, which always keeps me busy – but added to that, I’ve recently landed the biggest contract I’ve had since I went into
The price of the four-day weekend Paid Members Public
Reflections on balancing parenthood and freelancing.
Achievement unlocked: good holiday Paid Members Public
The last time I was back off holiday and feeling this rested, I was about four hours away from my life being turned upside-down [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/11/wanted_new_challenges.html]. Hopefully it’ll work out better this time. 🙂 I’ve been off at my brother’
Orking the Cow Paid Members Public
As a sort of addendum to yesterday’s post, I am seriously considering looking at joining a co-working space or renting a small office, so I can potentially put some distance between myself and my work at the end of the day. Working largely from a home office does create
Man meets hospital. Survives. Paid Members Public
Life has a way of throwing you curveballs. And by “curveballs”, I mean a visit to hospital via paramedics and an ambulance. While I’m all for new experiences, this was not one I found particularly thrilling, especially the moments spent laying on gurney, wondering if the brief goodbye I’
Weekend Joy and Monday Reality Paid Members Public
The weekend: [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/05/may-beach-life-1.jpg] The Monday morning price of ignoring the internets for the delights of the beach [http://adam.tinworth.org/2014/05/summers-start-on-the-beach.html]: And I don’t even want to think about the marking…
