Comments on: How to Plan Your Next Career Move http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move Cooking - Photography & More Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1423 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:38:30 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1423 Annie, Good for you, regarding the table cloth and perfume I guess I'll take your word for it :) We used to have a saying in England way back when, it was 'Dig for Victory' Keep digging Annie, it sounds like its working. Miles Annie,
Good for you, regarding the table cloth and perfume I guess I’ll take your word for it :)

We used to have a saying in England way back when, it was ‘Dig for Victory’
Keep digging Annie, it sounds like its working.
Miles

]]> by: Annie Flinn http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1418 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:17:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1418 Dear Miles, thanks for your encouragement. We have a saying, "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." I am a firm believer in that. I did survive the break-up mentioned, and I learned how to thrive. Even my latest break-up hasn't put me down and out. I have learned the value of retail therapy, as well. Nothing like a new bottle of perfume, or a new book, or even a nice new tablecloth to get one's engines revving again. When the weather is nice, I also find that digging in the dirt is better than an hour with a therapist. I have enough dirt under my fingernails to keep me mentally fit into the next decade, at least. there will be more adventures to come, I know!!! Annie Dear Miles,
thanks for your encouragement. We have a saying, “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” I am a firm believer in that. I did survive the break-up mentioned, and I learned how to thrive. Even my latest break-up hasn’t put me down and out. I have learned the value of retail therapy, as well. Nothing like a new bottle of perfume, or a new book, or even a nice new tablecloth to get one’s engines revving again. When the weather is nice, I also find that digging in the dirt is better than an hour with a therapist. I have enough dirt under my fingernails to keep me mentally fit into the next decade, at least. there will be more adventures to come, I know!!!

Annie

]]> by: Miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1362 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:19:29 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1362 Annie, A great comment, at least you get the turkey out of the way early, I have the agony of it for a month. A feast on carbs and dodgy fats doesn't do any harm once in a while and by all acounts you deserve it. That wasn't the first time I had to bounce back and it wouldn't be the last, the secret is to do it well. I know how you feel, been there and given the t-shirt etc. A few high calorie beers down the line and I'm back on track. I look forward to hearing how you bounce back :) Miles Annie,
A great comment, at least you get the turkey out of the way early, I have the agony of it for a month. A feast on carbs and dodgy fats doesn’t do any harm once in a while and by all acounts you deserve it.
That wasn’t the first time I had to bounce back and it wouldn’t be the last, the secret is to do it well. I know how you feel, been there and given the t-shirt etc. A few high calorie beers down the line and I’m back on track. I look forward to hearing how you bounce back :)

Miles

]]> by: Annie Flinn http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1361 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:42:27 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1361 Miles, Holidays always seem to generate their own particular set of variable and pathos. I remember a particularly bleak and rainy Thanksgiving, that oh-so-American holiday celebrated in November. Thanksgiving usually involves eating one's way through mountains of turkey, stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, and enough pie to make her comatose. The family gathers round the table, and often share those things for which they are most thankful. This Thanksgiving, for me, was a bit shy of the things that make the holiday truly special. My "significant other" of 15 years had dumped me, and I was hundreds of miles from family. My friends all had special plans that did not include me, and I would not have been good company anyway. So, I decided that the best option was to feast on food from the Jack-in-the-Box drive thru, and then to take in a movie. As the Sourdough Jack ( a hamburger on toasted sourdough bread) warmed my innards, I blasted up the motorway to the theatre. A large box of popcorn, smothered in fake butter, a box of chocolate malt balls, and a diet Coke (must watch the calories, you know) completed my gastronomic delights, and saw me through the movie. As it turned out, the evening wasn't all that bad. Perhaps a high carbohydrate indulgence numbs the brain and soul, or maybe it is the combination of empty calories and the escapism provided by Tinseltown that sees one through in moments of emotional darkness. At any rate, I survived the day, and lived to be depressed on others. You had the better option, I think. You planned your new adventure, and took charge of your fate. Well done, old chap, well done!! Annie Miles,
Holidays always seem to generate their own particular set of variable and pathos. I remember a particularly bleak and rainy Thanksgiving, that oh-so-American holiday celebrated in November. Thanksgiving usually involves eating one’s way through mountains of turkey, stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, and enough pie to make her comatose. The family gathers round the table, and often share those things for which they are most thankful. This Thanksgiving, for me, was a bit shy of the things that make the holiday truly special. My “significant other” of 15 years had dumped me, and I was hundreds of miles from family. My friends all had special plans that did not include me, and I would not have been good company anyway. So, I decided that the best option was to feast on food from the Jack-in-the-Box drive thru, and then to take in a movie. As the Sourdough Jack ( a hamburger on toasted sourdough bread) warmed my innards, I blasted up the motorway to the theatre. A large box of popcorn, smothered in fake butter, a box of chocolate malt balls, and a diet Coke (must watch the calories, you know) completed my gastronomic delights, and saw me through the movie. As it turned out, the evening wasn’t all that bad. Perhaps a high carbohydrate indulgence numbs the brain and soul, or maybe it is the combination of empty calories and the escapism provided by Tinseltown that sees one through in moments of emotional darkness. At any rate, I survived the day, and lived to be depressed on others.

You had the better option, I think. You planned your new adventure, and took charge of your fate. Well done, old chap, well done!!
Annie

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1355 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:46:25 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1355 Elsie, There is much to contemplate before moving to pastures new, it isn't always as wonderful as some might have you believe. I know! Miles Elsie,
There is much to contemplate before moving to pastures new, it isn’t always as wonderful as some might have you believe. I know!
Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1354 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:45:04 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1354 Cid, Travel and the chance to work with people from other countries has certainly given me a different perspective on life, good and bad! Miles Cid,
Travel and the chance to work with people from other countries has certainly given me a different perspective on life, good and bad!
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1351 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:53:50 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1351 Miles, When I look back on years gone by, I could cringe but I still believe the events of the past and how we dealt with them, defines who we are now and how far we have 'travelled'. So here's to the good and the bad, and to a positive future, armed with friends and a sense of humour, how can we fail? Cid p.s. by the way what's German for .... 'fill your hands, you sonofa*****' ... you see a thinking woman would have gone for the John Wayne movie in b/w rather than a load of scantilly clad gorgeous blokes in a bad sitcom :) but probably not at the age of 24! Miles,

When I look back on years gone by, I could cringe but I still believe the events of the past and how we dealt with them, defines who we are now and how far we have ‘travelled’.

So here’s to the good and the bad, and to a positive future, armed with friends and a sense of humour, how can we fail?

Cid

p.s. by the way what’s German for ….
‘fill your hands, you sonofa*****’ … you see a thinking woman would have gone for the John Wayne movie in b/w rather than a load of scantilly clad gorgeous blokes in a bad sitcom :) but probably not at the age of 24!

]]> by: Elsie http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1350 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:27:00 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1350 Miles, A moving story. Hope you never had another Christmas like it. I bet this is not what singletons dream of when contemplating working in other countries. Interesting way to choose where to go to next. Roll on the Lake District .... Elsie Miles,
A moving story. Hope you never had another Christmas like it. I bet this is not what singletons dream of when contemplating working in other countries.
Interesting way to choose where to go to next.
Roll on the Lake District ….

Elsie

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1349 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:56:17 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1349 Cid, Thankyou, it's actually quite good to revisit my past now and then, the past molds the present I suppose. Miles Cid,
Thankyou, it’s actually quite good to revisit my past now and then, the past molds the present I suppose.
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1348 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:32:01 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/how-to-plan-your-next-career-move#comment-1348 Miles, I have nothing to add except that I love these little memoirs and always look forward to the next. Strangely enough I have often tried to get someone else we both know, to write his.... would make good reading I've no doubt but he'd probably have to live in exile :) Cid Miles,

I have nothing to add except that I love these little memoirs and always look forward to the next.

Strangely enough I have often tried to get someone else we both know, to write his…. would make good reading I’ve no doubt but he’d probably have to live in exile :)

Cid

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