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This is about designing your life
Like Tom Daley on the edge of an Olympic diving board, I am poised to take over the world and go freelance. Bye-bye steady 9-5, guaranteed income, paid sick days, holidays, healthcare and dental plans....
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Feast and fast
Welcome to 2013! We made it! The world did not explode. Join me in raising a toast to adventures and possibilities. I think 2013 will be full of them. To ferment that thought a little further, and to...
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All wretch and no vomit
This is about doing what you love. Three sources of inspiration have popped into my life in the last seven days via wonderful people, doing wonderful things. I’m sharing them with you, because everyone...
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The art of keeping promises
How’s that New Year’s resolution going? Sticking to it? Gonna give it a go on Monday? Yeah, me too. Is there anything more disappointing than breaking a promise you’ve made to yourself. It turns out...
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Go Goa Go!
This is great evidence that happiness follows those who follow their dreams.
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Return to the motherland
Made it! Back in Blighty! I returned on the 24th February, leaving New Zealand in a fog of tears and skipping through Australia and Dubai on my way home. The blog has been neglected for fear of giving...
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Signed on and (almost) locked down
I’ve just signed on to the dole. I was warned it would be depressing. Filling in the form online was depressing. Attending the initial meeting was not. It was fascinating. The Job Centre considers job...
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Flip fear the finger
It’s not the first time I’ve heard this, but it was the right time. Now I’m back in Blighty, old routines and easy options abound, threatening my determination to do something different. Doubt seeps in...
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Shoot to kill: the art of farming a job
This is a mysterious art, this job hunting lark. If finding a job means selling yourself, then let’s talk about that old sales-person analogy of hunters and farmers: hunters shoot to kill. Farmers...
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And so it is
That I write. For a living. It’s the very beginning of a dream, and it is a huge mountain to climb, but I can officially say: I am a freelance writer. The followers and friends of Dibble Dabbles have...
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