Careers

What a civil servant does and what it’s like is pretty difficult to understand. It’s an unknown profession to those on the outside and unfortunately civil servants aren’t allowed to talk openly about the realities they face. It’s why this blog has been in draft for over a year ……

Try something, get results, keep going — A big goal often demands a big change. Want to.. Get fit? Quit junk food, exercise consistently, and get enough sleep Build a fulfilling career that pays well? You’ll likely need to become the best in your niche or change industries. Create a personal / professional network? …

What exactly is Prompt Engineering? Let’s start from the basics : What are the basic requirements for anything to be categorised as a field of engineering? When I asked this question to Chat-GPT it answered : Firstly, it must involve the application of scientific principles and mathematical concepts to design…

Blogging is a fruitful career but comes with its own risks to your livelihood. — Six years ago, I was interviewing for a finance job at a large marketing firm here in Tampa, Florida. It was one of those rapid-fire interviews where you spend 20 minutes with three different people. I was talking to my prospective hiring manager, aka “prospective boss”. …

This is leading to some bizarre realities — If everyone got a job & kept the same one forever, no one would work a job. The whole benefit of a traditional career is to start at a company in an entry-level job and build your way up to fancier job titles with bigger salaries. The allure of these…

How do you change when it’s so hard to tell if your efforts are even working? — Steven started smoking at 13. I met him when he was 21 and the dude was a chimney, easily plowing through nearly two packs a day. He was in so deep that I just assumed he’d never quit. I visited him years later and noticed he’d stopped. He’d never made…

This is — I want to tell you about a man called Jim. Jim hated his job. I mean hated it. He would turn up to work restless, he’d slat and bang about, and everything was an opportunity to moan about the way this place was. One morning, we got talking. It was…

Branching into Several Directions Doesn’t Make You a Bad Writer — I once won a tee shirt for being an eclectic writer. Okay, not every writer’s goal, but at the time, spreading my writing within a wide range of topics worked for me, not against me. But I often hear the opposite advice from other writers. Perhaps limiting their work to…

Learn from me, to speedrun your way through — I started off as an animator back in early 2020, making rotoscoped videos on my phone. I then saved some money and upskilled to become an illustrator in 2021 but decided to learn another skill, which happens to be my main gig now. Since late 2021 when I bought my…