I’m not a parent, but I suspect that starting a business is a bit like having a child. Life-changing. A shuffling of priorities. Being kept awake half the night. Networking is the new sex. Or the new black. Or perhaps the new running. I’ve attended plenty of hand-shaking festivals in my time but what was, in a previous life, often an onerous, awkward duty, now seems like a self-reaffirming recreation.… READ MORE.... …
Month: June 2010
It’s time someone gave a new image to ‘the jobless’. When the TV news has an item about redundancy or unemployment, they tend to reach just an inch or two into their image library for monochrome clips of dole queues snaking round the corner of the labour exchange, or clumps of silent modern youth on street corners, eyes downcast. When they interview one of these tragic statistics, we find some gloomy middle-aged bloke on a sofa, as if paralysed by boredom, blaming politicians and cheap foreign imports (both the human and factory-produced kind) for his plight.… READ MORE.... …