Today marks the start of something new and the discarding – if only metaphorical – of the old. I will be heading to the center of Uppsala shortly to take in the boat races on the river which are an integral part of the Valborg celebration here. Then I’ll retreat to my classroom and watch [...]
Last week I discussed two categories – which I named dangerous and disgusting – of the world’s worst jobs. Now I’m moving on to what I see as the two remaining categories – degrading and destructive. I think most of us can relate to the degrading category since we likely began our working lives with [...]
Now that it is 2013 I thought it was time to revisit my job boards listing and check that all the links were still working and make any required edits. These are the boards that I check daily and although most are fairly well-behaved a couple have some deficiencies that have made me remove them [...]
If you’re like many of us when asked about New Year’s Resolutions you may somewhat flippantly answer that your resolution is not to make any. This year is the first time that I have come across quite a bit of academic support for this attitude from some sources that I respect and admire. Peter Bregman, [...]
Since you are reading this and it is now after noon on December 21, 2012, it seems safe to assume that predictions of planetary demise were a bit premature. I wrote the title for the post before I saw that someone else – namely John Boehner, House Speaker in America – also had a ‘Plan [...]
I have been feeling optimistic these last couple of days about this blog. Maybe it is because my first course in the masters’ program is completed or because Christmas and an almost three-week long break from school are on the horizon. Whatever the reason I have decided to stick with it until my birthday next [...]
Of my first course in the Masters’ program in International Health here at Uppsala University I mean. I can’t comment on whether the end is nigh generally although with everything that’s going on in the world sometimes it seems we don’t deserve to inhabit this beautiful planet. I still haven’t decided whether or not to [...]
Earlier this week I was pleasantly surprised and very grateful for a Tweet I received from a reader thanking me for working on this blog and encouraging me to keep up the good work. I cannot tell you how much this means to me. I have fallen into this great opportunity in Sweden – to [...]
I produce this blog as a service with the hope of perhaps one day turning it into a small money-making venture by creating and selling ebooks and/or offering a premium job-alerting service that would send a PDF of all the jobs offered that day to your inbox. I don’t have any illusions about how difficult [...]
