business backpacker

Working Wednesdays: I’m a Business Backpacker, the Life and Times of Don’t Stop Living

Today on my working Wednesdays I wanted to share my latest career move with you all to get you thinking “outside the box”. I’m inventing a new term for myself, as of today. I might be a budget backpacker, I might be a hardcore backpacker and I might be a perpetual backpacker. However I want Read more about Working Wednesdays: I’m a Business Backpacker, the Life and Times of Don’t Stop Living[…]

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Working Wednesdays: Heading Back to Delaney’s Irish Pub (Part 2), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

After last week’s story on how I went to Hong Kong to go backpacking and hang out with my girlfriend, yet ended up getting a job, now it’s time for part two. So I did my two shifts in Delaney’s, caught my flight to Singapore, found out that I had got and lost the job Read more about Working Wednesdays: Heading Back to Delaney’s Irish Pub (Part 2), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong[…]

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Working Wednesdays: Barman at Delaney’s Irish Pub (Part 1), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Today on Working Wednesdays, I’m finally getting round to telling the tale of how I came to Hong Kong in the first place and why I ended up staying there, working there and using it as my base to backpack all over Asia including lots of adventures into China. It’s a story which I’ll separate Read more about Working Wednesdays: Barman at Delaney’s Irish Pub (Part 1), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong[…]

Working Wednesdays: The Bad Times When You Can’t Work

If you have noticed my rants and rages recently (on my Facebook Page) you will know that in the last month I have had to put up with yet another broken laptop, a hard drive that only worked on that laptop and countless shit internet connections on my recent travels which cut out half way Read more about Working Wednesdays: The Bad Times When You Can’t Work[…]

Working Wednesdays: BBC Northern Ireland Feature on Jonny Blair’s Northern Ireland Flag

I make no apologies about the fact that my recent “Working Wednesdays” features have been more travel related than random jobs lately. To be honest, a load of new opportunities have come my way in the last 12 months and it almost beggars belief. I’m contacted all the time now by companies for travel advice, Read more about Working Wednesdays: BBC Northern Ireland Feature on Jonny Blair’s Northern Ireland Flag[…]

Working Wednesdays: Report Compiling and Research for Zopa

I’ll return to my time working in London today on Working Wednesdays for a brief look at the time I did some research and report compiling for Zopa. I worked for Bite Communications in Ravenscourt in London and I was a Public Relations Assistant. The work was varied and the work was busy. I worked Read more about Working Wednesdays: Report Compiling and Research for Zopa[…]

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Working Wednesdays: BBC Radio Ulster Interview, Northern Ireland

I’ve always loved media. There’s something about TV, newspapers, radio and the whole public sphere thing that I love. As a teenager I did some work experience in the BBC and Belfast Telegraph as well as studying a City and Guilds course in Journalism. At university I wrote for the magazine, starred in 2 TV Read more about Working Wednesdays: BBC Radio Ulster Interview, Northern Ireland[…]

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Working Wednesdays: 8 Attributes You Need to Run A Travel Blog

Ah sigh! Here we go another working Wednesdays today and instead of me telling a story or writing about my long list of jobs today it’s time for a reality check. Don’t Stop Living turned 6 yesterday and yes that is some achievement and I’m proud of it. But for people on the outside who Read more about Working Wednesdays: 8 Attributes You Need to Run A Travel Blog[…]