What is the new socially aspirational career?

Five years or so ago it was all so simple.

We had moved on from the doctor and lawyer aspirations that our parents had for us as children to lionize careers in banking and finance, but now bankers and financiers are lying gasping on the floor and the coroner is on the way.Photo by carveconsulting from Flickr licensed under Creative Commons

Posted under Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on June 4, 2009

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Anonymous online? Facebook, Blogs and Generation Y

Photo by sklathill - licensed under Creative Commons We all like to think of ourselves as plugged into the zeitgeist. The web? Was there in ’95. LinkedIn profile? Got one years ago? Skype? Tick. Blog? Tick (you’re looking at it). SecondLife? I’m there. 24 x 7 online gadgets? Got them in spades.

Posted under Hate pets, Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on May 10, 2009

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Review of ‘The Wonderful World of Dissocia’ the play by Anthony Neilson

A dilemma for you: how do you review something about which you want to say nothing?

If you read the plot summary for this play you’d probably think it was terrible (so don’t). Stop.  Don’t Google it. In this case ignorance  is bliss.

Posted under Reviews

This post was written by @Drivelry on April 28, 2009

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Setting up cheap and professional technology for a home-based small business: networking, laptops, web, and software issues

You may have just been made redundant, or you’ve always wanted to work part-time from home, or you want to run a small business from home. Photo by robertnelson from Flickr - licensed under Creative Commons

You want to:

  1.  use the technology that you know is out there to have a professional small home office setup, and

Posted under Kewl

This post was written by @Drivelry on April 19, 2009

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Bad communication and information technology staff

Occasionally, as an information technology professional (if that is not an oxymoron) I feel that the criticisms applied to us are totally unwarranted. 

Posted under Hate pets

This post was written by @Drivelry on April 4, 2009

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Baby boomers: guilt or selfishness? Leisureville and the geriatric generation

 My (late 20s) sister gets some flak about being part of generation Y. You know, that generation that has:-

 ‘an expectation that there will always be a job out there and that you should be able to get to the top job of any average organisation in under 2 years.’

Posted under Reviews, Self doubt, Unanswerable questions

This post was written by @Drivelry on March 19, 2009

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10 tips you need to know about email privacy and using email effectively

 
 

Email is now obviously a core part of our lives.

Yet despite this there are still a range of people using it who make significant mistakes that can cost them jobs, friends, or just the respect of others!

Posted under Kewl

This post was written by @Drivelry on February 14, 2009

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