There’s a lot of it going around… I’ve been limping along with annoying ill symptoms for about three weeks now and I’m boring myself with it. However, I learned some pretty valuable lessons about work these past few weeks which you might find useful. Whatever little infectious buddy that my body has been incubating was […]
How Country Music Makes Me A Better Copywriter
I love country music. As a kid growing up in East Yorkshire such a passion was a rarity and despite the concerns for my social development my dad kept feeding me country music till that fateful day that I started buying my own. He sat back in his armchair with a sigh of contentment; his […]
Kicking Out Self Doubt for Freelancers
One of the hardest aspects of working for yourself is that you are self-reliant on picking yourself up, offering encouragement and motivation even when the chips are down. The phone hasn’t rang for a couple of days, your inbox looks a little empty and your Twitter updates are falling on blind eyes. I was on […]
Mentors
Today I was offered a new project to work on with my previous boss; same salary, more control, familiar team and prospects of working in the States for some of it. I felt the pull, and I could taste the regularity of my skinny cappuccino sipping back into my life. I could work on it […]