“You’re getting off at Ravenscourt Park for Bite Communications” – Jonny Blair (2007). Whether the high flying life of London city and the world of PR was for me or not is history’s garbage tin. It was 15 years ago this month, I softly slipped away from the world of office work and the bright Read more about 15 Years Ago This Month: Front Page Of The Times – I Work In Bite Communications[…]
Here is the song I wrote and sang to the tune of The Red Hot Chili Peppers song ‘Californication’ in June 2007, just before leaving my PR job in Bite Communications. Red Hot Media Sellers – Bite Communications(lyrics Jonny Scott Blair 2007) Moving up to London to the world of Public Relations Journalists from papers Read more about Red Hot Media Sellers – Bite Communications[…]
Aside from Don’t Stop Living, I roll a few other bandwagons and I often get freelancers and other companies in to work with me, I outsource some of my work. I have a lot of sites to manage at the moment and I needed some blog logos and web design done on them. So I Read more about Blog Logos and Website Design by My Logo I in Bournemouth[…]
It’s been a while since I did a Working Wednesdays feature on here, and while I have dozens more jobs to write about, I’ll be posting a few more of them in due course when I feel like it. After relocating to Hong Kong in 2011, I signed up with Internations. If you don’t already Read more about Working Wednesdays: Welcome Host for Internations in Hong Kong[…]
“No regrets, they don’t work” – Robbie Williams Ok so the story goes, in 2001, I started working for the Halifax, which was then a Building Society and later became a bank as part of the Halifax Bank of Scotland. It’s well known in the UK – the Halifax Bank. If you read a story Read more about The Day I…Got Sacked By the Bank For Increasing the Interest Rates[…]
How Apple tried to ruin Don’t Stop Living by Jonny Blair. Random rant time again. OK so you’re thinking “what has this post got to do with travel?” but it has EVERYTHING to do with my travel lifestyle, and for that reason I’m happy to name and shame the WORST three companies to deal with Read more about Random Rant: How Apple Tried to Ruin Don’t Stop Living!!![…]
I was recently thinking about my job history, including all the unpaid work, the work I have done for friends, the work I have done for others on top of my 50 plus jobs where I’ve been earning money around the world. It astounds even me, as until recently I didn’t actually realise how many Read more about Working Wednesdays: Cashier/Till Clerk in Tesco, Branksome, Poole, England[…]
I bought some pick n mix in Woolworths this week and it was reduced. I felt a bit sad. Woolworths is a major British company which has provided a range of consumer goods for many generations. My local Woolworths is in Southbourne in Bournemouth and is about a 3 minute walk from me. My old Read more about A British Institution Goes Bust: Farewell Woolworths (I’ll miss you)[…]