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About me

You will find my work on a couple of other sites such as Dooyoo and Ciao under different user names, on Dooyoo I also carry out the role of Motors Guide and have also guided both Banking and Sports in the past.

I worked in the financial sector for sixteen years before having a career change and I now teach Economics and Business Studies.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

my kids

I know too much about ...

Arsenal football club

My parents always told me ...

to express myself

My childhood ambition ...

was to play hockey for England

My favorite memory ...

is the birth of my children

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Logic of Life

My first job ...

was as a paper boy

My best moment ...

is still to happen

Featured article by Richard Smith

Jobs & Careers > Layoffs & Firings When getting fired is an opportunity for change and growth: 11 of 19

It was a Friday afternoon in mid March 2005 and thoughts were drifting to the approaching night's debauchery and a weekend doing stuff with the kids when the little ping that tells me I have new mail went off on my PC. Given that in recent weeks my workload had reduced substantially and no new projects were on the horizon I was welcome of the distraction a new mail may bring, what I got was an invite to a meeting at 9.30 on the following Monday with the Director I reported to, no meeting agenda or subject and a very formal request for me to attend. It did not take a genius to work out what...
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