Dust. It’s everywhere. I swear I have only just finished dusting and it has snuck up behind me and spread itself around again. I find dusting to be one of those tasks that when you’ve finished is really satisfying, because there is a definite improvement that can be seen (unlike other tasks like laundry, because…
Work
A sense of achievement
I love that feeling you get when you finish something. If you could bottle it I would get it by the boxful. I have that feeling now. This semester I have been lecturing at the Canberra Institute of Technology and everything has been online. I like to be well ahead of my teaching weeks, so…
When I grow up…
I want to be a football referee??? If you haven’t already heard about it, Britain’s National Career Service has an assessment you can do to discover what careers your skills might suit. Not unusual, there are hundreds of these (the Australian government has one as well). What is unusual is that this one is so…
A fact about me…
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. A fact about you, you don’t often share.My working career happened all because of a whim. When I was in high school I wanted to be a vet, but when I did work experience with our local vet I discovered I…
Meatworks of the future
Cost savings and efficiency are two of the biggest reasons factories have slowly become more automated over the last few years, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs. However, covid seems to have accelerated this change, with more companies switching to automation to enable production to continue during lockdowns. This is especially the case for meatworks,…