Ugh I need to leave my job this week too. I'm going to really disappoint some people who have been great to me. I'm also going to be yet another senior woman leaving a team where the junior women are really struggling with the lack of role models.
It's not really about work/life balance for me, although the new job will be better. It's more a feeling that I should be doing something more socially useful (new job is public sector).
Anyway. Good luck.
The red double decker bus tour of London is great. So is the boat trip from Westminster pier to Greenwich. I like the Greenwich observatory too--you can stand on the prime meridian line :) I also really recommend walking across one of the Thames bridges (I like the millennium bridge best but any fairly central one will do) at night time and looking at the view when the buildings are all lit up.
Definitely get an oyster card. You actually can't pay cash on buses any more.
I went to law school in my late 20s and it was a great decision. I love my job for all the reasons you mention. BUT I got my first law degree outside the US so did not take on much debt and then got a grad degree from a very good school (also without debt) which has given me a lot of choices and freedom in my career. I would think very carefully before going to a lower ranked school.
Haha I'll be 40 this year and cardigans are now Very Important to me :)
Any UK toasts have tips for a good source of work cardigans? My favourite just went through at the elbows and I'm looking for a warm, professional and pretty, in that order, replacement.
It is absolutely possible to negotiate. Be prepared for them to ask for evidence of your offer.
I can give you advice about obtaining a position as a housemaid, removing dirt from white velvet and expat life on a ranch in California. I'm hoping the crinoline tips will be in the next issue.
I also love Project Gutenberg. And of possible interest to other nerdy, literary Toasties, Project Gutenberg has a group of volunteers called Distributed Proofreaders who work on digitising old books. You can sign up as a volunteer proofreader and proof the odd page whenever it suits you. I am currently working through proofreading volumes of the Girls Own Paper from the 1890s; fascinating stuff.
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