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Working from home multi tasking

10 key ways to avoid madness when working from home during Coronavirus lockdown. What are you up to?

April 16, 2020 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

Working from home can cause mental and family problems. 10 ways to avoid the madness.

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Work meetings need a good room

Are your work meetings a disaster? 6 things you can do to stop wasting your life.

December 10, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

The truth about work meetings and some ideas on how to improve them

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Redundancy

10 surprising redundancy facts to know if you’re leaving soon…

November 20, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

10 things you need to understand when you leave a job to keep your sanity

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Loose women

What does Daddy do all day? Getting traumatised by Loose Women isn’t all fun.

November 19, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

What do you fill your days with when you’re redundant? Daytime TV anyone?

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how to stack a dishwasher

Amazing new skills you can develop midlife, including dishwasher stacking

November 6, 2019 marvinmidlife Midlife Issues

MIdlife is the opportunity to learn new skills. Dishwasher stacking seems to be the most pressing.

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Redundant midlife

How disaster struck. A victim of middle age redundancy tells his sorry tale.

October 17, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

The story of how a middle aged man experienced redundancy

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Feature: Hip Replacement

hip replacement story starting with arthritis
A hip replacement story, from initial twinge to running around post op.

Working lives

  • Work meetings need a good room Are your work meetings a disaster? 6 things you can do to stop wasting your life.
  • Role playing Exciting role playing doesn’t just happen in the bedroom, it happens in interviews too.
  • CEO career Shockingly I won’t be the next CEO. So what is midlife career end-game?

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...

Health, Fitness and Hips

  • hip replacement story starting with arthritis My body used to fix itself…sadly it doesn’t any more and so midlife arthritis ends with a hip replacement story (Part 1)
  • 2 years after my hip replacement Shocking 2 years after my hip replacement. Was it worth it worth the hassle?
  • Make yourself happy, do it for Don Agonising over how to be happy? Don’t do it for you. Do it for Don.
  • Zwift try something new today Try something new to save your sanity. Surprisingly it was Brussels and Zwift that did it for me.

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...

Ask Marvin Answered…

  • Father Christmas is fat, grey and old. I’m exactly the same, and yet no one wants me in their house at Christmas. What can I do?
    Aunt Marvin
  • My work suit no longer fits, and my birthday suit isn’t what it was. What can I do before I return to the office?
    Aunt Marvin
  • I have been offered a promotion at work but it could mean sacrificing my friends. Should I take it?
    Aunt Marvin

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  • Canal boat holiday better tgan camping? Camping or canal boat holiday? What’s better for grumpy middle aged men?
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  • how to stack a dishwasher Amazing new skills you can develop midlife, including dishwasher stacking

In Other (Largely Fake) News

  • photo of man leaning on wooden table Working from home is fun again. Thanks kids, enjoy school!
    September 7, 2020
  • Dentist's chair Man trying to recreate Gascgoine’s “dentist’s chair” celebration ends up having root canal surgery
    July 26, 2021
  • Covid Christmas devastation Santa warns of Covid Christmas present “disaster” as new rules threaten both deliveries and traditions
    November 29, 2020

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