The hashtag #metoo has done an amazing job at sparking the discussion about harassment. However, there has been little discussion about what you should do if you find yourself subjected to harassment in the workplace. Do you suck it up and consider it “paying your dues”? Do you find a new job? How do you [...]
After a few months into your dream job it is almost inevitable that you will start to question your career choice. The realities of the workplace will begin to settle in, and you will start to question whether most of what you heard about your chosen career was simply false advertising. You may also begin [...]
We all wish we could go back in time and redo moments in our history. The moments that matter can be as trivial as getting up a few minutes late and missing a bus, or as pivotal as drawing a blank during a final job interview. Most graduates feel this way when they look back [...]
Continuing our series of interviews, I had the pleasure of talking with an ex-dancer, Drue Green. Her journey to professionalism started in the UK in the late 1960s and took her to Spain and America. Now working in America as a paralegal, Drue discusses her joys and the pitfalls associated with having pursued her passion. [...]
Often people who achieve great success in life display a dizzying array of traits that most of us do not innately have. Focus, drive, ingenuity, discipline and an uncanny intuition about the “next big thing”. However, most of those traits are the result of developing personal habits that enable those traits to develop and grow. [...]
Anybody who has ever expressed an interest in becoming an “artist” has probably dealt with a slew of well-meaning people trying to dash their hopes and kill their dreams; quietly. By artist I mean any of the many creative fields such as writing, dancing, acting, music, sculpting. Not all careers have marked paths. Creative careers [...]
The new Wonder Woman movie, with its images of sword-wielding is reported to be progressive yet crowd pleasing, faithful to the tenets of the genre yet wise to its own absurdities. Like Orange is the New Black, Frozen, and The Princess and the Frog, Wonder Woman features a principal strong female character who demonstrates the [...]
For thousands of students across the country, A Level results day will be the first step on the path to independence. Some of you are the 'top dogs,' achieving the best results, outperforming your peers and being accepted into the top-rated universities. But being a “top dog” has its drawbacks if you can also be [...]
The propaganda is that graduating from university is the first step to making the world your own; the world is your oyster. However, this idea can become stressful when you graduate with a “Desmond,” otherwise known as a 2:2. With big companies and popular postgraduate courses requiring a 2:1 and above, it's not surprising that [...]
In recent years a new verb has become part of our popular lexicon. Adult. As in, how to adult. As millennials graduate and move away from the world of academia, it is becoming increasingly difficult to gauge whether we are busy making progress or just busy. In previous generations the goalposts by which adults judged [...]
