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07
Oct
Showering People. Wiping Bums. Nope.
Last week, in the shallow end, during a lesson of how to breathe out through my nose, I told my
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05
Oct
Placements: Sixty Years of Golf, and I Walked Past It
The care was immaculate.
I want that on the record before anything else, because what follows can sound like a
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24
Sep
Placements: Week Two - High Care
6:30am, on the dot. Two of us peeled off to different corners of the building - floors one and three,
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21
Sep
Placements: Week One - He Didn't Even Know My Name
Week one's in the books, and nobody threw a parade. Nobody said "great job," nobody said
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17
Sep
Placements
Here's the thing about marketing... real, grassroot stuff, not the frameworks and the decks... you can sit through
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07
Sep
Theory Doesn't Flinch. People Do.
Six weeks of this now. Textbooks, slide decks, quizzes, the whole classroom apparatus of learning how to take care of
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02
Sep
Skills Get You Hired. Attitude Gets You Asked For.
Anyone can execute a checklist. You train a person, you drill the steps, and pretty soon they're running
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01
Sep
One Month In...
I was skimming through my TAFE content... the online reading, the TDC handouts, the graveyard of half-finished notes in
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20
Aug
A question to support workers; veterans, newbies and aspiring ones
Do what you're passionate about and you'll never work a day in your life.
How, then,
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14
Aug
Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.
The thing nobody tells you about starting a new life at forty-something is that it can feel undignified.
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