Finance and Faith

I’m writing this in response to a specific conversation on Twitter, but I think it’s worth sharing.

When you are poor, your life revolves around money. Even if you’re a hardened leftist it is impossible to escape the reality of having to eat and keep a roof over your head. You can’t escape that, if you need or want something even slightly expensive, you will have to endure hardship to make it happen.

I’m [NOT] blowing the airport sky high!!

I haven’t travelled on a plane since 2004. I’m not really looking forward to the next time I have to fly. Security was already silly then. Now hysteria has taken over. If the authorities read this, I want to let them in on a secret.

Unresolved Issues

This year, I didn’t make any New Year resolutions. I’ve done it some years, and I find it’s mostly a case of setting yourself up for a fall. With an arbitrary start point (Jan 1) and an arbitrary deadline (Dec 31) there is pressure from beginning to end. But over the midwinter period I had a bit of a think about my priorities and I have some ambitions for the coming months:

How to succeed in any job

You can’t get through as many jobs as I have without learning a few things. So here I present a list of my five top tips to help you get along wherever you work.