Several times I’ve approached the edge of the career abyss and thought, “Oo, that gaping void looks alluring.”
Read MoreParenthood is a classroom like no other, and much that you learn within it is applicable to your daily life. Like saying that an audible fart was a frog noise, for example.
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Is Mondayitis an actual, serious psychophysiological illness or just a throwaway malady akin to man flu and hose buttock? To find out, I asked former GP and practising psychologist Dr Egan Patiens.
Read MoreI’m generationally awry.
I have the Birth Certificate, digital literacy and firm buttocks of a Generation Y, but the basic grammatical skills, suspicion of young people, latent revolutionary zeal and ever-present fear of imminent apocalypse of a Baby Boomer.
Read MoreSome people ask me while I’m signing autographs or they’re basking in the fresh-baked-bread warmth of my celebrity, “Jonathan, have…
Read MoreThere’s an acronym doing the rounds on the interconnected network of digitised information at the moment. You might be familiar…
Read MoreA little while ago a friend thought one of my articles was a pointed reference to his own behaviour. It wasn’t….
Read More“So what do you do for a living, Johnson?”
“Uh… it’s Jonathan… I’m a… well, a writer.”
“A writer? You write books? Novels?”
“No, no, no. No. Definitely not.
“No.”
“But I do write a little thing… a little columny thing… in the paper.”
Read MoreI’m all for metaphors. If variety is the spice of life then metaphors are the smoked paprika of language. I…
Read MoreWe often look back on the decision to resign from a job as a happy career juncture, a fork in the career road with a perfectly-cooked career sausage on the end of it. But the moment itself, that ten or fifteen seconds in which we have to tell our manager that we’re pulling the work pin, is almost always filled with trembling anxiety.
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