Posts under ‘Work’

Last year I decided that my quality of life was more important than financial gain (a lot of which goes to the taxman anyway).
I am lucky in that my employer offers special menus so that employees can have up to five days more holidays in the year and or work less hours (to the equivalent [...]

Sometimes you don’t have to look far for an inspirational quote. I was chatting with Olga, a work colleague yesterday when she said “You live each moment for the very first time” I find that very profound and also inspirational. Thanks Olga!

I want to bring you some Swiss culture today. From my Office Window we can see the back of a hotel and over the last months there has been some funny goings on. A scaffolding was erected and artists have been painting the exterior of the building with a mountain landscape.
It turns out that this [...]

Chez Luc
Originally uploaded by JustGraham.
At work we were used to going to “Chez Luc” for our morning coffee and occasionally to eat at midday. His warm welcome was unquavering and his freshly baked breakfast fare was delicious if a little high on calories
Unfortunately the building in which he had his café (on the first [...]

Started back at work today after a week in hospital and a week’s convalescence. It’s nice to be with my colleagues again and I do have some interesting projects to finish over the summer.

You probably remember my moving posts a few months back and how this new office building is much more interesting than the previous one. More than any other office in the past 10 years actually.
Well I discovered this morning, shortly after arriving, that we have a new machine. A coffee machine and not anything ordinary [...]

This Friday I will be changing offices for what I hope will be the last (professional) move for a long time. It is only 50 metres away and a new (blue) building. This time on the 3rd floor facing the inner courtyard. This will be the 8th move in less than 10 years.
As I have [...]

What’s the oldest document you’ve been able to touch? I remember when I was a temporary librarian at the Royal Society of Edinburgh I regularly handled Scientific Literature dating back to the late 18th century and I well remember the odour of those books and how strange it was to handle them. Well last Monday [...]

I have this vision (professionaly speaking that is) that my organisation should be using different technologies for a whole range of documents that we produce.
At this moment in time most of our Project Management Documents are produced in Microsoft Word. Some are produced from templates whereas most are older documents opened and modified (does this [...]

I am in the midst of a lot of professional changes since the middle of last year.
For a long time I have no longer wanted to be a boss, feeling as I did that I wasn’t getting anywhere and that I had already been there and done that.
Although it was only 7 to 10 [...]