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@IAmBenRobertson
thinking differently about careers + other things.
The inventor of the essay—Michel de Montaigne—has some powerful career-inspired messages for current times.
It’s all about shots on goal.
It’s all about shots on goal.
I had a mega drive, my mate had a snes — this is the game I remember playing. Thanks for the memories Hulk Hogan 🇺🇸
Down in Hillsborough They're blue and white But we don't talk about that Are you from 'round here? How do you do? I'd like to talk about that Talk over Beres Pork Shop Leaves on the lawn Violence in bus stops And the pale thin girl with eyes forlorn … #SWFC
Hope you enjoyed your first Béres Pete @tramlines
Hiring manager reading another CV that opens with: “I’m a hardworking, enthusiastic and passionate team player…”
not making a career decision because you think it’s an rreversible zero-sum choice that doesn’t quite fit your idea of perfection.
post someone who is beautiful.
post someone who is beautiful.
Nowhere near as good as a Teams call at 4pm on a Friday.
Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything
And that’s why “follow your passion” is such terrible advice.
Passion is a feeling that follows action. It tends to be created or discovered, not predicted or planned. You don't find your passion. It finds you as you get in the mix and try things.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years’ time?” finally has an answer.
If you knew the end of humanity was in five years, what would you do between now and then?
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." – Joseph Campbell
Me: “who you gonna get on your next Wednesday shirt now Windass has gone?” 8 YO: “who’s left, dad?” 😭 😭 😭 #SWFC
Hunter S Thompson’s birthday, so I’m sharing this profound piece of wisdom on pursuing your own path: “You don’t find yourself by following the road everyone else is on. You’ve got to carve your own path, even if it’s through the goddamn wilderness.”