Whenever I talk about my days in the corporate world, there is always a tinge of reminiscing about my colorful past. Advertisements
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Tips to Work Well With Your Younger Co-Workers
So, what do you do if you find yourself working in a company with younger colleagues? How can you adapt and get along with them considering your ages and ideas?
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5 Surprising Things We Take For Granted In Singapore (I never knew until I live overseas)
Time is due for another relocation post. Sometimes, I think I bash my home country too much. Feeling a little unpatriotic but I do miss Singapore and here are the things I missed about her (excluding my friends and family) and have been taking granted for.
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Motherhood Will Never Be An Easy Job
Motherhood may be a dream job for many but it definitely not an easy job. I dare say the toughest job in the whole world, more difficult than any other worst jobs out there.
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Into The Working Brains of A Market Researcher
Data collection is not unfamiliar to us: from taking street surveys to answering feedback form. But what does a market researcher actually do?
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Being Productive @ Work: What Are The 5 Time Wasting Things You Do At Your Desk
If you are moaning at the piling work on your desk and it just seems that you can never go home at the strike of 6pm, you might like to ask yourself if you are being productive at work.
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Channel Incentives – All You Need to Know
You must have heard of the term sales channel incentive if you happen to run a business. You may have also provided your partners incentives under the same program. Have you ever thought how you can use these sales channel incentives the most effective way? What needs to be done to build your sales incentive…
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How I Came Up with So Much Ideas?! And How I Manage To Write Everyday
If you have been a regular reader of MiddleMe, you’ll realize that I published a post every workday from Monday to Friday and this led to some of my followers asking me “Why don’t I run out of ideas to write on?”
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How To Turn Your Hobby Into A Career
As the saying goes; do what you love and you won’t work in your life.
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A Word Of Advice: A Line Between Infidelity At Work
Hello Ms Kally, I have a rather unique problem here. I know you don’t usually give advice on relationships and love. But my problem is much bigger than that and it involved a male colleague at my workplace. I have.. what the popular term called ‘a work spouse’. He works very closely with me at…
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7 Time Management Tips For Reducing Job Stress
The complexity and number of projects that have to be completed in a day can many times prove to be overwhelming. Many of us experience lots of stress when they get a sense of not being able to control the events happening in their lives.
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How To Fire Somebody Right
The hardest part of being a manager is having to let go of a subordinate. I have done it before and to tell you the truth, the first time it is hard, the subsequent times that I do let go of staff isn’t easier just because I have done it before. This conversation is gut-wrenching…
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How To Save When You Are A Freelancer?
Being a freelancer has its perks and one of it is the freedom to choose the projects and clients you want. However, the downside is that as a freelancer, you don’t have a stable weekly or monthly income to depend on.
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Why You Should Not Ignore Exercise (Even When You Are Overwhelm With Work)
At times life happens and you may get a little sidetracked. Family obligations come up, you get held up doing overtime at your workplace or sickness kicks in. in particular overtime at your workplace, some days get a little extreme and these crazy days could stretch for weeks and even months.
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Are You Getting Too Attached To Your Company?
The thought of you ever leaving your company sends shudders through your spine. You rather spend your time at work than at home with your cats. As much as I applaud the fact that you love your job and your company, it is not healthy to have a fixation on your workplace. I know because…
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A Word Of Advice: I’m Being Singled Out
Hi Kally! How have you been? Let me jump right into my problem. You see, a new manager has just joined the company and he has been assigned to lead my team. While under his leadership, we are able to work effectively and efficiently and our productivity numbers are up. That’s really great! Our management…
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Conquering My Hatred Of Driving
I really really really hate driving. Partly it is stem from the fear of the action itself and partly because I’ve been in a car accident twice.
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How To Determine Your Rates As A Freelancer
Inspired by one of my readers, Melissa A who asked how to set the price point as a freelancer, which is very important to start off your freelancing career right, I decided to write a post about it.
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Guest Post: How to stay afloat as an old person in a tech world?
As you know I am always on the hunt for a good read and when it is career related, nothing perks me up more than a well-written piece like the one I am about to share with you. Addison or known to the blogosphere as A Better Man, is a fellow Singaporean that I get…
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Am I Doing Something Right?
We all go through life sometimes questioning ourselves whether we are doing something right. Whether we are being true to ourselves, whether we are doing our best, whether we are happy.
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