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About me - Jeremy Orbell

I live in Peterborough in England which is about 80 miles North of London. Some call it East Midlands, others call it East Anglia - I call it home.

I have worked in marketing and as a graphic designer for nearly 20 years in the fields of travel, the Internet

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Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Your job and happiness: 14 of 46
I've been having a look around the job market of late and considering my options of a bit of a career shift. I still enjoy graphic design and marketing but I need a bit of freshen up in as I've been in my current role by the best part of four years now. I need a bit of jolt to get some positive momentum going again. One posi... More..
Relationships & Family > Humor & Laughter Benefits of laughter: 15 of 49
They say that laughter is the best medicine and a while back I tried a very silly experiment to see if the theory was true. What I did was devise a spoof psychological profiling quiz to see how colleagues and acquaintances would respond. Apart from asking impossible questions, I requested that those taking part should provid... More..
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Essential albums of the 1980s: 10 of 32
Following my visit to the Art of ZTT at the Art Vinyl Gallery in London - an exhibition of record sleeve design from record label Zang Tumb Tuum - I got thinking about the album cover of Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie goes to Hollywood. It always surprised me that it never got listed as a classic sleeve when it has s... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Self-Awareness & Realization Finding your life's purpose: 35 of 110
I'm a graphic designer / marketer from the UK with an interest in personal development. Despite this latter admission I have had a tricky time of late of getting all the concepts to stick in my own life...but I'm working on it! Curiously, I have actually been doing a smattering of life coaching work and this something I enjo... More..
Entertainment > Music Business The future of the music industry: 15 of 47
The future of the music industry is sketchy at best. While we have enjoyed popular music for more than 50 years you wonder for how long it can go re-inventing itself, playing what are basically the same set of notes and being able to develop new and exciting talent. Over time we have seen the re-emergence of genres such as S... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Feminism & Women's Rights Should US companies be required to provide equal pay to women and men?: 45 of 139
When reading the title question I felt compelled to write a response. First of all, should this topic be purely aimed at US companies when this is actually a humanitarian issue that affects every person on the planet? Secondly, there needs to be some context as to what equal pay actually means between the sexes. At the most ... More..
Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss Those gone but never forgotten: 11 of 33
I rang a friend of mine recently who I hadn't spoken to in a few weeks to ask about his father who had been unwell with cancer. Unfortunately I learned that his father had passed away just over two weeks earlier. You could sense in my friend's voice that this was something he was still coming to terms with. His dad retired f... More..
Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) Understanding the meaning of creativity: 10 of 30
Creativity is life itself. How you define it is a matter of personal choice but it should not be forgotten that we are 'creating' every moment of the day. Even as we sleep we dream and how wild are the pictures that they paint! 'I may not know much about art but I know what I like' We usually think of creativity in terms of ... More..
Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Guide to a career change in midlife: 7 of 21
Back in 1989 I was in a menial office job counting travellers cheques for a major travel company. Basically I had to make sure that the cheques returned from branches around the UK matched in value to that listed on the branch remittance. Not exactly challenging unless you were working in Japanese Yen with multiple noughts b... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Not all who wander are lost: 8 of 23
A Day on England's North Devon Coast Watermouth Castle to Hele Bay: Getting Stung! Despite being awoken by the glare of car headlamps flooding the tent sometime after 1:30am, I did in fact sleep pretty well during the night. The grass before me now glistened in the early morning dew on what was another fine, sunny morning. I... More..