Having had first hand experience working with the people that make this fantastic technology reality, this is of a particular interest, however the simple joyous response of the baby, is with or without inside knowledge a wonderful thing. To read more about Cochlear Implant technology click here.
via swissmiss (thanks).
For those know me, a really nice article from the Guardian about the increasingly cool part of town in which I work.
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Via Aaron (thanks). And the picture credit goes to allurkarl.
… well actually around 165 days.
This week I happily finish my 3 month probation period in my new job, which in these difficult times has been on top of the usual things associated with starting at a new place, like systems, new people, ways of doing things, clients, expectations etc, a period of plenty of checks over my shoulder as a large number of unlucky ones have been laid off as I started.
But the one biggest change has been my shift in attitude to getting up and going to my desk everyday. Whilst I am not going to go overboard and claim I skip to work everyday, because weekends never seem long enough, and the alarm going off on a Monday morning is less than ideal at any time, I no longer have go to work questioning what I am doing.
Only a few short months ago, around about the time the world decided to go into financial melt down, I made what at the time could have been considered a rash decision and quit a job which for over a year of the 18 months I worked there, had almost removed any desire I had to work in the creative industry.
A combination of a shattered confidence due to being under-challenged, a lack of responsibility and deaf ears when I voiced my ambitions and desires to grow, topped off with a general lack of trust and respect from two of my senior colleagues, seriously had me thinking about what else I could do instead; the artisan chocolate qualification I achieved at the time, was seeming like a viable change.
Now though my chocolate making is still merely a hobby, and after experiencing in between the joys of working for a small agency and problems being paid my monthly salary, I approach the end of my trial period, with my creative juices again flowing, and all the seemingly evaporated confidence returned.
Returned, thanks to a daily work experience that challenges me, a role that has given me the responsibility I craved, and more than anything team mates that believe and trust in what I do.
That seemingly scary and hasty decision to quit last October, now seems like one of the wisest career moves I have made.
Now all I have to do is keep the clients happy and ride out this financial slump job intact.
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