Your Emotional Map: How to Deal with a Personal Crisis at Work
What sort of a person are you? How do you cope under pressure? When problems occur in our lives they often make concentrating at work difficult – but occasionally a serious personal event may occur that is so traumatic that you need to work out a coping strategy. How do you do that when you’ve […]
Blog writing tips: 10 essential steps not to miss!
There are many blog writing tips that you need to know, so let’s get started. You’ve got a great blog. You just want people to read it – but are you making it easy for them? I’ve consulted multiple blog sites to gather the top tips to make your blog more readable. Check this quick […]
10 of the Best: How to Be Like Your Favourite Career Men and Women
Careers: the concept is a modern one. Before the industrial revolution, people had jobs, titles, vocations and passions. They didn’t talk about “climbing the corporate ladder” and “putting in a 9 to 5”. People have always achieved things. “Careerists” have always strived to advance and to make a difference. There are some men and women […]
A Depressing Short Story about a Selfish Woman and an Uncaring Man
Depressing Short Story – from my own personal collection Sally was drunk again. She had to hide the bottle from her husband, who was asleep in the next room. It hadn’t always been like this. Not very long ago she had been a normal person. But now all she felt were feelings of remorse and […]
Why Do Radio Stations have so Many Studios?
The reason most radio stations have three studios is that generally speaking, the on-air audio will get thrown from one studio to the other when the shift is changing, so that there is no gap on air. One announcer will be finishing off his show in studio one and the next announcer will be in […]
Work Totally Sucks? 15 Signs That it’s Time to Switch Jobs
Feeling dissatisfied in your job and not sure if you should start looking for a new position? How do you identify if it’s time to move on? There are several indicators that you can use as a determining factor. Have a look at this list below and see if any of these signs sound familiar. […]
Putting the Worst Swear Word to Air: My Dumb Delay Button Drama
Panelling involves coordinating everything to allow a show to go to air by operating the studio panel’s faders, mics, ads system, CDs, sound levels and switches. When you are a panel operator, it’s your job to make sure that the talk-breaks are kept to the designated length by giving the host/s the wind-up and countdown […]
Do You Have Perfect Office Manners? Check This List of 30 To See How You Rate!
Do you have perfect office manners? The workplace has changed, and we have to evolve along with it. One of my goals for 2013 is to have better manners, be more respectful of people, and to try to make people feel happy and at ease in my presence. Amazon Askville says, “Manners create a framework that […]
The Most Important Things to Know When asking Your Boss for a Flexible Working Arrangement
I had an argument with my friend yesterday – she’s a manager who looks after 40 staff and is struggling to accommodate everyone’s requests for flexible working arrangements. I, on the other hand, have enjoyed working for a company that actively encouraged its workers to work flexibly: within that organisation there were job sharing directors, […]
Radio in the 90s: An Excerpt
Back in the late 90s, we played all the music from actual CDs, now of course everything is programmed in by specialist computer programs. I was introduced to the announcer Aleesha and I instantly thought she was the coolest person I had ever met. I decided then and there that I wanted to be her; […]
Trading the Radio Mic for the Gavel
Jason Khay’s Total Career Turnaround Jason Khay had been working his dream job for over a decade, but the dream was no longer as fulfilling as it once was. Khay was a radio “all-rounder”; an announcer, panel operator and producer. It was a career that he really enjoyed, but he felt that new opportunities for him […]
100 word Short Story: She’s So Impulsive
“Stop being so impulsive!” he yelled at me with some urgency. I clicked open my shoulder bag and reached far inside, preparing myself for a big fight. “You’re always like this!” he tells me, “Always acting out, not caring about other people!” He’s right, I think, he knows me well. I straighten my skirt and […]
Great Uncle Mick: is Skinny but Eats Like a Horse
Great Uncle Mick Is very skinny but eats like a horse He likes his food served very hot And he hates sitting in a draft, in case it gets cold He likes a schooner of Tooheys Old before he eats Swirling the last mouthful in the glass Before drinking it down He told […]
They Moved all the Desks in the Office
They moved all the desks in the office Now I sit opposite Andre I try not to cough Too loudly Because I know I can be annoying. I make lots of funny noises when I’m at work I stretch and grumble and eat apples and drink coke I wouldn’t want to sit next to me. […]