Archive for March, 2009
tipping in a group
When I was a student, I spent 3 months living in the United States on a J-1 exchange visa, and it was there that I learned to tip. Americans are profligate tippers in comparison to most other cultures, and we were instructed that the *done thing* is to tip around 15% in restaurants (round up [...]
middle age is realising you’ll never realise your dreams?
I once read a definition of middle age as the point in time when you realise that you are never going to own a Mercedes convertible.
Now, I guess all the Mercedes owning readers get overexcited that they’re never going to reach middle age. The point that the author was trying to make is that when [...]
SWOT analysis
Introspection is generally the order of the day at plonkee money. Both times I’ve done Myers-Briggs tests I’ve come out as *as introverted as it’s possible to be* on the introvert-extrovert scale. Which I think is just fine, but other people think is wierd.
Anyway, enough about me. Well, except to say that I wrote a [...]
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