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Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Bad reasons for quitting your job: 25 of 66
Bad reasons for quitting your job:1) Because your bored! Think very very carefully about this one, is it the job that's actually boring or are you making it boring?! This should be obvious by your motivations and if they aren't there at all, then leave.2) Because you don't like the people you work with! An employer and the em... More..
Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Good reasons for quitting your job: 23 of 50
1) You have out grown the company. i.e Your own professional ability has grown beyond what the company requires or will ever require.2) The employment has a culture which deminishes your self and professional respect in yourself! e.g An arts background based creative working in a strict corporate environment and vice versa.3)... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book review: New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster: 1 of 2
A metaphysical masterpiece which entwines reader, author and main character into an eerie world of riddles and symbolism from the off-set. In each of the three books (City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room), a detector (a mystery writer enrolled as a detective), a detective watching a writer, and a writer trying to find his c... More..
Business > Entrepreneurship (Other) Design philosophy: Managing customer expectations in retail: 1 of 1
'The more valuable the perceived service the longer the customer will wait.''e.g Special checkout counters, in supermarkets, were originally provided because customers with only a few items felt resentful at having to wait a long time for what was seen as a simple transaction. Customers with a full trolley were more inclined ... More..
Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Thoughts on "The Happiness Purpose" by Edward De Bono: 1 of 1
Edward De bono is a well respected expert in the science of thinking and has been credited with inventing the term 'lateral thinking' which is now so much part of our language that it's used as much in science lessons as in television comedy. Dr de Bono has pioneered forward in the pursuit of exploring ways of objectifying an... More..
Personal Finance > Personal Finance (Other) The free money chain scam: 1 of 1
This is a way some people generate quite a high income with no overheads and with little advertising. It's quite commonly used and immensely irritating when you get stung by one but it works even less. Basically you take out an advert in a local newspaper saying 'earn extra income, high returns, no overheads, buy information ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Thoughts on Writing Examples of metaphors and how to use them: 18 of 35
Metaphors are the transfer of meaning between two subjects often to create a more poignant effect and as such, metaphors are an excellent way of getting across a feeling and image in a creative way.In creative writing metaphors are used to a richness and depth to prose, having a comparison between deceptive matter, that the r... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reasons not to believe in God: 102 of 188
Reasons not to believe in God. All reasons should stem from the underlying factor that God as a concept is contrived and man made. In order to believe wholeheartly in a man made concept, without proof, when the concept itself is concerned with a driving entity or source of enerergy outsdide of mans control is a contradiction ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > News Industry Hunter S. Thompson and gonzo journalism: 9 of 16
Hunter S Thompson had a work ethos that ended up defining a new genre of writing style. Throwing himself head first into his subject matter to the extent by which you can't help but be amazed he lived as long he did before going out in his triumphant blaze of glory as his ashes were fired firework style across the Arizona des... More..
Entertainment > Celebrity Commentary Celebrity dirt: When tabloids go too far: 21 of 37
Tabloids need to appear to consistently go to far in order to appeal to their readers. The gossip aspect rather than fact based content makes them the easy 'tongue in cheek' read they are. Tabloids consistently go to far when they report personally about a celebrity or there family rather than focussing on what and why the pe... More..