Category: work

  • The Importance It Deserves

    Throwing yourself out of your comfort zone and living in quite a different environment is amazing for all sorts of reasons, and can be challenging for all sorts of reasons. One challenge is how to be present in what you’re doing without dismissing things, missing things, getting overly attached /…

  • Why use Volunteers

    If you want to build a school somewhere. Or distribute food and other aid, or teach kids, or provide medical care, or build wells, or teach literacy, or train a community, etc, etc, etc, then in most cases the best way to do it is to get money in from…

  • Mentorship Programme

    All Hands and Hearts is running a mentorship programme. They have done a few batches of this in the past and are doing another session this year. I saw the invitation for this and thought it sounded brilliant, in particular they are doing a track for late career changes. This…

  • Work

    Given I’m leaving the UK for such a long time, I’m also leaving my jobs. I have been working at the Natural History Museum and last Friday was my last day there. I’ve been there for 3 years and I’ve made some good friends in that time. And while I’m…