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Imagine if we let the thick of neck, knuckle dragging, beer bellied, spotty, low IQ, shouty white blokes take over. Think about that. Think...

I’ve just completed four weeks of unemployment. It continues to be very emotional. But I do think that I’m starting to get the hang of it. ...

Day two of unemployment. Going well so far. Yesterday I went out for a celebratory breakfast. The full English. I considered it a rite of p...

Today I made an investment in my future; a deposit at a nearby clothing bank. Pretty soon someone in Eastern Europe or the Third World ...

You can’t help but absorb some of the bad vibes from around yourself, unless you are a person of iron will. I am not a person of iron will....

The New Years Eve celebrations are as meaningless as the Christmas ones the week before. It’s all very arbitrary. People make resolutions t...

It’s possible that I’ve made a very big mistake. I think I may have come very close to getting a new job. A job with more money doing what I...

I’m not normally known for being a rampant optimist and the recent ‘kickings’ have seen me deep in despair at times. But I’ve come through ...

I lack personal confidence and have low self-esteem. If I ever reveal this to people who don’t know me that well they find it hard to belie...

For the first time since I learned that I was being made redundant I feel that I’m in a better place emotionally. My outlook is starting to...

I hope upon hope that once I am made redundant I can find other employment. I fear for the future. I can’t see that, at my age, I’ll be abl...

Life is like being on a rollercoaster at the moment; a mixture of a few highs and a great many dramatic lows. Work is so painful now as I k...

When we were told at the beginning of last week that the branch of the company I work for was closing it really didn’t come as any surprise...

#newdecade  2011 hails the start of a new decade. Sadly the media won’t be making any fuss about it because most of those working in the me...

”Infamy, infamy they’ve all got it in for me!” Spammers, hackers and people that steal bandwidth are evil bastards who for some reason don’...