July 2008 - Posts

• Career development - the scenic route

  So we are twenty.   While Steve and Clare plotted world domination, I was taking a more scenic route to my career development, selling buns, high class buns mind, I was a supervisor in Harrods Bakery and it was a killer of a job.   It Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 29 July 2008 10:54 by Sam Howard | 0 Comments

• Top hats off to The Sunday Times

  I’ve just got back from a mad weekend at Camp Bestival. Bestival takes fancy dress very seriously, hosting what must be the world’s biggest fancy dress party for the last five years. Last year in the Isle of Wight, I witnessed a divinely surreal moment Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 22 July 2008 10:37 by Sam Howard | 0 Comments

• Sex in the CIty? Not at the moment...

  I read it in Metro, so it must be true, it seems the latest casualty of the credit crunch is the mistress.   Apparently the City mistress, the ultimate affluent proof point, is one of the first luxuries to be jettisoned when tightening the personal Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 14 July 2008 15:31 by Sam Howard | 0 Comments

• Going Places?

  Was really pleased to see a story in PR Week recently which celebrated how three people who had joined their agencies as graduate trainees were, some years later, pretty much heading them up. In an industry where you’re made to feel complacent if you Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 07 July 2008 10:18 by Sam Howard | 0 Comments