Work Stories

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE

In 2006 I left a well-paying job at the Institute of Directors to follow my heart.
I’d been coached for a long time and I finally reached the point when I didn’t belong there anymore.
A broad range of life experiences, including the transformation in . . .

Personal Relationship Coach

No Work, No Play

Over the last 4 years, the unceasing terror and unhappiness over America's adoption of a despot has frozen my work. I begin my writing day, as I always have, by reading, then picking up the pen and notebook, I think and wait for magic. All that has b . . .

Writer

Same old same old

Got up at half past six
Swigged cup of tea and pushed down piece to toast with butter and marmalade
Ran down road for bus, just made it
Sat on bus soaking wet, it was raining, and I forgot my overcoat
Jumped off bus outside tube station
Ran in, slap . . .

Sales executive, call centre

BUBBLEWRAPPED

I am an honest woman sometimes.
I tell my children and my friends
I LOVE presents. you may always
send me presents. Even if they are
teeny. Once, I got a bobby pin from
a friend I rarely see. Another time,
3 jelly beans in a tiny plastic bag.

Today . . .

Writer