With lockdown 2.0 just having started and many uncertainties ahead of us, it’s good have a few things you can count on. And one of the things I can tell you with a great degree of certainty is that we’ll spend more time in online meetings than we want to in the coming weeks. I’ll give you the bad news…

When I recently got a new computer and thus had to clean out my data, I was dismayed to find 30 unsuccessful job applications. Turns out that in the past ten years, I didn’t get a single job I applied for. Yet, throughout this time, I have always worked (except for when I went back to university). That’s because there’s…

When I talked to my sister-in-law the other day, we agreed that in spite of the pandemic and the world going to pieces, our lives haven’t changed all that dramatically. As proud members of the precariat (formerly ‘the penniless artist’), we are used to not knowing when and where our next job and thus our next batch of money will…

In the past two weeks I have done some thinking about what I can contribute to make people’s lives better in this dire situation. For lack of any useable medical knowledge, I decided to focus on what I know. A few people have confided in me that they find working from home challenging, so as someone who has done this…

A couple of months ago I fulfilled a dream I had harboured for the better part of two decades and decided to take singing lessons. Truth be told, I would not have started if I hadn’t felt a slight twinge of panic every time I thought about my upcoming choir audition and had not met a singer when a friend…

When people ask me why I do marketing, I always say that I chose to become a marketeer because it is the ideal combination between my skills and my interests. If a try, I can say that pretty convincingly. It is, however, a lie. The true reason why I chose to go into marketing is that ‘pain in the ass’,…