I have been fighting what felt like a losing battle against Home Affairs for the last year! I have spent hours on the phone and thousands of Rands trying to get an error in my passport corrected. I could not understand how, through no fault of my own, this mistake could not be fixed. It […]
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Meet Amelia: What it’s Really Like Being a Content Writer!
I had a little laugh as I chose the featured image for this article. A photo of a type writer – the glamorous idea of what it means to be a writer. When actually, it’s hours at your laptop drinking copious amounts of coffee often late into the night trying to meet deadlines. Nope, no […]
Meet Maz: What it’s really like being a Fashion Designer
There are few people I know who are more stylish than this woman. She’s the kind of person who can throw on a T-shirt and look like she’s ready for a fashion show. She has a style that is just so relaxed but polished and put together at the same time, how is that even […]
What it’s like being a high school secretary and PA to the principal
Unlike the rest of my posts during this career series, this one was submitted anonymously. Having worked in schools around Cape Town, though through a role in a non-profit, I know first hand how hard working in public schools can be. I once was at a school when a student stabbed another student. Another time, […]
Meet Janis: Real Estate Agent
Janis, one of my oldest best friends from school, was always destined to be someone – she always worked harder than anyone at achieving anything she set her mind to and although I was heartbroken when she told me she was moving all the way across the world. I knew she was chasing dreams and […]
One Day or Day One – You Decide!
Life is so very short. A cliché but it’s true. If we’re really lucky we get to live a hundred years but the reality is that hardly anyone gets to live till then. Instead we live to maybe 85 if we live in place with decent health care… We hardly have any time on […]
