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6 crucial tips before inviting people in on work video calls. What’s behind you?

May 7, 2020 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

Work video calls can be great, but they also allow all sorts of people a peek inside your house. Be careful what’s in the background if you don’t want them to look at you in a different way in the future.

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Ask Marvin

I hate PowerPoint with a passion. What can I do?

November 12, 2019 Aunt Marvin Ask Marvin

am rubbish at Powerpoint. My slides always have clashing colours or boxes that don’t align, and look like a ten year old has done them compared to other people’s.

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dull work meeting

A brilliant excuse. Is daydreaming in dull meetings part of evolutionary make-up?

November 7, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

Office meetings can be dull, but are a necessary part of work life even if half the room is daydreaming or messaging their friends. It’s an evolutionary thing.

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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.
  • Attractive organisation What makes an attractive organisation? We’re a sucker for our emotions
  • Redundant midlife How disaster struck. A victim of middle age redundancy tells his sorry tale.

Most Liked Posts

  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks…
  • Writing exciting erotic stories gets great followings. Just don't tell…
  • Agonising over how to be happy? Don't do it for…

Health, Fitness and Hips

  • hip replacement story starting with arthritis Shock decision about having a total hip replacement at 50! 5 things that worried me. (Part 2)
  • Low fat or middle-age spread Middle-age spread is not low fat margarine, but do people find it as tasty?
  • Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman? 1 Evel Knievel liked amazing stunts. Was he a hip replacement hero or broken bone madman?
  • Post-lockdown anxiety is a thing It’s party time! Why post-lockdown anxiety can be exhausting for the middle-aged

Most Liked Posts

  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks…
  • Writing exciting erotic stories gets great followings. Just don't tell…
  • Agonising over how to be happy? Don't do it for…

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?
    December 4, 2021
  • 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?
    April 27, 2021
  • I have been offered a promotion at work but it could mean sacrificing my friends. Should I take it?
    March 8, 2021

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  • Erotic fiction Writing exciting erotic stories gets great followings. Just don’t tell your other half.

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