Transitory Retirement, Permanent Inflation
It looks like “transitory retirement” has come to replace the idea of “transitory inflation“. For months, the Federal Reserve Bank in the US told us that the sharp pick-up in prices was a transitory...
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The Great Resignation – Are You Ready?
Everyone’s talking about the “Great Resignation”, which is another unintended consequence of the pandemic. Millions are leaving their jobs. So many reasons have been touted: because of health concerns, a re-evaluation of life priorities,...
Be Yourself – Your REAL Self
I fell upon this YouTube podcast with the legendary England rugby union international Jonny Wilkinson. He was open. He was candid. He preached on how to be yourself. That’s relevant in your career as...
Your Employer is Not Your Family
Don’t get sucked in by the mission statement. Ignore the free lunches, the happy hour drinks, the fruit made available every Monday morning. The “shared vision” nonsense. Your employer is your employer. Your employer...
Keep On Moving
Blogging and the like is tough. Keeping the momentum going that is. Anyway, I’ve sought inspiration from the UK band Soul to Soul. It’s simple. It’s pithy. But their 1989 hit song Keep on...
How to Become a Private Banker
There’s nothing that screams wealth, sophistication, and exclusivity than the world of private banking. That’s kind of strange because there are far more smoke and mirrors than most outsiders actually realize. Yes, it’s a...
When to Stay in Your job
There’s a lot of aspirational stuff on career sites like this. How to find a job, how to get promotion, how to pivot in your career, how to build a LinkedIn profile and so...
Just Do It (Whatever “It” Is)
I’ve had a bit of writer’s block of late. It happens. Life happens. Too many things going in the real world, as well as in my head. Plenty of distractions. But in the last...
4 Rules for Getting a Loan
Most of us will at some point in our lives think about getting a loan from a financial institution. This could be anything from a personal loan, to a mortgage to one that gets you through your student...
Beware of the Single Point of Failure in Your Career
Let’s start with a definition for a single point of failure. In the words of Wikipedia, this is “a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working....
