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plonkee

plonkee has written 579 posts for plonkee money

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 [...]

deciding whether to stay or go at work

Normally, I’m the one that everyone else in my family hates because I have a job that I really enjoy. I’m a maths geek and for a living I work with spreadsheets and data a lot of the time, and proper maths some of the time. I work for a company where not that many [...]

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