Full-time employment can be tough on a lot of people. At some point, every full-time worker has come to the realisation that they spend more waking hours with their high-maintenance boss than with their spouse and loved ones. That stings! Unfortunately, as a full-time worker it can be easy to fall into the trap of ...
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4 Tried-and-True Tips for Landing a Job Interview
There’s a bunch of helpful articles out there to help you nail a job interview, but how do you actually land one in the first place? We don’t often think about selling ourselves to a prospective employer, but it’s an important part of the job application process. Don’t be fooled into thinking a good product (in this ...
Productivity at its best… and worst
As I was sitting in my lounge room, avoiding my long list of to-do tasks (and any form of productivity for that matter), my hand clutching a glass of wine and my eyes fixed on an episode – or two… or three – of Gossip Girl, something strange happened to me. I found a Blair Waldorf that I liked. Or maybe even… ...
5 Essential Steps to Overhaul Your Personal Finance
How's your financial situation looking? Are you pinching every penny you can? Living pay-check to pay-check? Paying for everything on a credit card and hoping not to get too far behind in paying it back? More money than you know what to do with? (Ha!) Personal finance is an area that I am weirdly fanatical about. Maybe ...
Emily Zylstra On The Art of the Side Hustle
Okay friends. I’m here to talk the good stuff today – the exciting, edge of your seat, can’t get enough stuff. That’s right, I’m here talking personal finance. Wait, what?? I hear you say. Personal finance? But that is boring and hard and really, who cares anyway? If I just keep working my normal job I’ll be fine? And ...
My Happy List: Letting the Little Things Shape my Happiness
It’s the little things. Am I right? It’s those little pockets of happiness throughout the day that make the hours that much sweeter – and I do mean the little, tiny things. Things you probably wouldn’t even notice unless you’ve got your happiness detection switch turned all the way up to full. If you’ve never made a ...