Have you ever been the person in the room digging deep for the courage to ask a question? One you know you will feel stupid for asking but having no other choice..
Have you ever been the person in the room digging deep for the courage to ask a question? One you know you will feel stupid for asking but having no other choice..
I have a crystal clear memory of one of these moments, it should have been forgettable and insignificant but instead a five minute ordeal seems to have greatly contributed to my personality.
Continue reading “A Stupid Question”
Apparently it’s my turn to confess, this isn’t my usual kind of post but I was summoned! Thanks so much to Ash for tagging me, I have to say- your guilty pleasure answer gave me a good giggle 🙂 (If anyone is curious about it look out for the link to Ash’s truth tag later in this post)
Continue reading “The 100 Truths Tag”
Maximize your chances of successfully gaining the employment you seek.
Interviewing is one of the many responsibilities in my role as a manager. In my career thus far as an applicant I’ve attended eleven interviews in person and taken two over the phone with an 85% success rate.
As an interviewer I’ve conducted over fifty in the past twelve months at a hire rate of 40%. According to my HR associate I have the most rigorous screening process as well as being the most difficult manager (out of the six of us) to impress.
I’m going to share what I’ve learned about the interview process through my experiences as an applicant, employee and employer. Some of these points may seem obvious and I really hope they are, but since each of us have access to different resources perhaps mine can teach you something new.
Continue reading “How To- Prepare For An Interview”
A bucket list.
On 22nd August 2018 I hit 30 years of age!
As part of my celebrations and a hopeful step towards a major life-time goal I have re-launched my blog. This first week of posts is dedicated to my past, present and future with the intention of giving you all a look behind the curtain at me… Roxanne Michelle.
Today I’m sharing thirty goals from my ever-growing bucket list
Run a successful blog
Mentor my next workplace successor
Change career
Complete a marketing course
Publish a novel
Learn to cope without anxiety medication
Purchase my own plot of land
Quit smoking
Relocate to a village
Kick my energy drink addiction
Drive to Ireland
Ride a scooter in Italy
Drive a tractor
Join the mile high club
Do a colour run
Read Stephen King and son’s entire canon
Learn a new language
Teach myself to play violin
Take one archery or fencing class
Participate in NaNoWriMo
Go to Hay Festival
See The Woman In Black in theatre
Have a psychic reading
Watch a meteor shower
Experience a sensory deprivation tank
Get in a hot spring
Watch the northern lights from a glass igloo in Finand
Visit a European Christmas Market
Take a cooking class in Italy
Walk through the crooked forest in Poland
Whats on your bucket list? Have you done any of these things already? I welcome any advice.
Come celebrate my birthday & blog relaunch! Find out what we have in common..
WELCOME READERS!
Today is my 30th birthday and the RELAUNCH of my blog AnAverageLife.org
Originally this site began as a place to blurt out my thoughts now and then. I had no schedule, no prepared content and no direction. It was fun but as I invested more and more time into blog hopping and Twitter I realised I wanted to put more effort into my own little piece of the internet.
There are some beautiful, inspiring and interesting blogs out here and the same can be said for the creators behind them. The support and encouragement in the blogging community is astounding and I’d like to contribute.
The first thing I look for in a blogger is common ground or an interesting voice. So to kick off a week of celebratory birthday/relaunch posts here’s 30 things about me…
I cannot ride a bike.
I start a new job on 3rd Sept
My hair is naturally curly in a half-assed way.
I was almost stung by an enormous jellyfish as a child.
I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder in 2014
I have a puppy, Watson the English Cocker Spaniel
I’ve lived in the same town all my life.
I have specific table sauce habits. Mayo with carbs, dairy or poultry but never meat, bacon excluded (everything’s good with bacon right?). Ketchup is for red meat and battered fish only.
My mothers family moved to the US in 1987, one year before I was born.
I spent the last 5 years addicted to Rockstar energy drink. On 14th May I quit caffeine. So far so good.
When I was 19 years old I interrupted the filming of ‘Burn After Reading’ in Washington DC. A rather large bodyguard stepped up and asked me to be quiet after my third yell of ‘NAN! LOOK! I can see George Clooney!’. Nan had been busy flirting with a nearby policeman on horseback. She claims it was a distraction technique…
I am very very slowy writing my first novel
I really dislike Queen. Everyone always gasps at that. I’ve tried but it’s just everywhere all the time. Of course I make an exception for We Will Rock You, that song has the power to motivate a sloth. But if I’m subjected to Bohemian Rhapsody I’m apt to get snappy.
I cannot stand romance novels or films. As a side line to a story sure, but as the main plot? Nope nope nope.
I do not have nor want any children.
I am a Potterhead
My father and I have a Christmas tradition. I hide one sprout in his dinner every year, hoping he will finally eat it. He always finds it and puts it in my hair, my shoe, my wine glass and other assorted places!
I fell slowly and deeply in love with my best friend.
I’ve learned (and since forgotten) how to play the clarinet, piano and guitar.
I dont like steak.
I love to travel. I aim for at least one new destination per year.
I have 6 tattoos, each with symbolic meaning
I struggle to make a good first impression in social situations.
I got a mortgage in 2016, just me, myself and I. It’s my proudest achievement.
Did you find our common ground? Don’t give up just yet if you didn’t, there’s still tomorrow. Now head on over to twitter to enter the giveaway on @Anaveragelife88 🙂
An Average Life 