Lifenotes #13: September 2021
The one with the new job 💼✨
· 2 min read ⏱️
✨ Highlights
- After a year and a half of remote working, I went back to the office! It was great to see and chat to people in person 💛
- I finished up my time at Capital One, and I’m sure gonna miss my friends from there 🥺
- Had a week off in between jobs, so went to London for a few days 😌
- Went to CityJS Conf! A real conf in real life with real humans! It was great fun 🎉
- Started my new job at Monzo! It’s already been really fun to learn a bunch of new things 🤓
🎮 Played/Read/Watched
- The Cleaner: watched a couple of episodes, it’s a fun watch
- Ted Lasso: watched most of Series 2 and I love it so much 💛
- Arrival: quite an interesting film for a language nerd 🤓
- Resilient management: I picked this up to learn how to be a good report, and to understand management better, and it was such a good read! It’s packed full of great perspectives and advice 🙌🏼
- Friends again 🙇🏼♀️ (pls don’t judge me)
- Reflections on burnout by Vaidehi Joshi
- The danger of financial jargon by John Lanchester
- Providing a public salary history page by Jamie Tanna: Jamie kindly shared his salary history, a great step towards more salary transparency, which helps minoritised folks bridge the wage gap. Thanks Jamie! 💛
- Tech Team Weekly Ep. 5 - Talking openly about pay!
- How does salary work? by Kevin Goldsmith
- A profession is not a personality by Arthur C. Brooks
- Sex Education Series 3 🥺💛🌈 this show just warms my heart, especially with the Ezra Furman soundtrack to boot 💕
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