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2026 New Year’s Resolutions

Here are my New Year’s Resolutions for 2026:

  • Complete at least 10 more courses, related to mental health and Lupus via Alison.
  • Lose at least 2 stone in weight in the first 3 months, by:
    • Walk a lot more.
    • Eat healthier.
  • Work smart on hitting my bean target on Bigo.
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General Blogging

Good morning everybody.

Over the last 2 or 3 weeks, I have become super busy.

For the New Year, I will be paying more attention to our family blog. It is relatively new, so we are getting it as close to perfect as possible.

I will also be paying more attention to Bigo, a live streaming app, where I will be helping out my amazing team to earn money. If you would like to find out more about Bigo, please get in touch straight away.

Meanwhile, my aim for this job search blog is to post at least once per day, if I can.

Update

Bigo had too much drama, people who think they know everything or think they are better than everybody else. I have since come off of and uninstalled Bigo, and have decided to go back to tiktok

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Important Information for Employment

I have noticed that companies expect me to travel further afield for jobs that I am unable to get to. For example, GU postcodes.

I am giving the following important information to employers / potential employers to help them find what I am actually looking for. This will save them and myself time and energy.

I want to keep building bridges, rather than companies burning the bridges.

So, without a further adeau, here’s the important information.

Types of work I am looking for:

  • Construction (housing preferred, but commercial accepted).

Start date

I will be available from Tuesday 04 April 2023.

After this date, I will be looking for employment as soon as possible, but MUST have a minimum of 24 hours warning.

Locations

  • Crawley (essential)

Hours

Day work are highly preferred, but may consider night work at the right wage.

Pay

  • £13+ per hour (long term construction – 1 year or more).
  • £15+ per hour (short term construction – 1 year or less).

More Information

For more information, check out my Key Competencies, Job Interview Questions and previous experience.

For previous experience, I have a lot of blogging to catch up on, so please bear with me on getting this onto my blog ~ Thank you.

PLEASE NOTE – If you only have short term work, please let me know in advance (minimum of 2 weeks notice), so I can fit as much construction work in as possible. Thank you.

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Word Wheel: 17/08/23

i, Thursday 17 August 2023, p29

7 Letters

  • Endured

6 Letters

  • Endure

5 Letters

  • Creed
  • Crude
  • Cured
  • Duder

4 Letters

  • Cure
  • Deed
  • Deer
  • Dude
  • Dune
  • Need
  • Nude
  • Reed
  • Rude

3 Letters

  • Dee
  • Due
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Word Wheel: 20/05/26

Daily Mail, Wednesday 20 May 2026, p35, Viewed: Sunday 05 July 2026

6 Letters

  • Opener
  • Phoner

5 Letters

  • Hoper
  • Where
  • Whore

4 Letters

  • Here
  • Hore
  • Horn
  • Peer
  • Porn
  • Porn
  • Pour
  • Prow
  • Pure
  • Rope
  • Were
  • Wore
  • Worn
  • Wren
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[QUESTION] What’s one thing that would instantly improve your city?

There are too many to mention.

The first one, and the biggest one of them all would be to retrain police to catch criminals, rather than go for innocent people.

Another huge one is getting rid of the incompetent drivers from the road. There are too many of them on the roads, and I have had several near misses with them. Especially those who decide to pull out in front of others without looking.

On Wednesday 16 September 2026, on the way up to East Surrey Hospital, I had a driver from my right at a staggered junction pull out in front of me. He has to give way to those on the main road. The funny thing is … Somebody entered the main road from the left right in front of him. The one that came from my right waved his arm to get me to slow down. I was doing the speed limit. Go figure …

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[QUESTION] What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?

The day my mum passed away, I had a call from my uncle.

My mum was in hospital for a while, over a month, I believe.

His tone was different to what his tone normally was, and I had that horrible black cloud over me.

When my wife and I got there, we had a quick smoke before we went in. We both saw 2 vicars walk passed, and said hello. That black cloud got even darker.

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[QUESTION] What’s a common misconception people have about happiness?

Intimacy with a partner.

In my own opinion, intimacy isn’t everything. Just a bonus.

Making sure that both parties communicate, and love each other for who they are is the best way forward.

If intimacy is agreed and it happens, then that’s the bonus.

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[QUESTION] Have you ever regretted reading a book — which one and why?

To be honest, I’ve never regretted reading any books I’ve read.

Most of the ones I’ve read were very informative.

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Job Search Weekly: w.b. 05/10/26

Monday 05 October 2026

  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Tuesday 06 October 2026

  • Recruitment Agencies: Received a text for a job in Heathfield, East Sussex.
  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Wednesday 07 October 2026

  • Recruitment Agencies: Received a text for a job in Horsham.
  • LinkedIn: 2 posts.

Thursday 08 October 2026

  • Recruitment Agencies: Received a text from Ivy for a job in Redhill.
  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Friday 09 October 2026

  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Saturday 10 October 2026

  • No job search was completed today.

Sunday 11 October 2026

  • No job search was completed today.

Good Deeds

  • No good deeds happened this week.
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[QUESTION] Which author would you love to have dinner with?

I would probably Donna Serdula, author of LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies.

I had to create another LinkedIn account after a lot of hassle with my last one. Her book helped me create my new account and gain more views and connections.

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[QUESTION] What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

Be selective of who you’re friends are. Most of them aren’t your real friends.

I always use my own quote for something like this:

Real friends stick together, fake friends stab you in the back and run.

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Job Search Weekly: w.b. 28/09/26

Monday 28 September 2026

  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Tuesday 29 September 2026

  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Wednesday 30 September 2026

  • E-mails: Went through 1,111 e-mail from Job Boards for between 15 August 2026 and Wednesday 30 September 2026, including:
    • Adecco
    • CV-Library
    • Indeed
    • LinkedIn
    • Love Local Jobs
    • The Career Wallet
    • Total Jobs
  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Thursday 01 November 2026

  • E-mails: Went through 1,515 e-mail from Job Boards for between 11 April 2026 and 15 August 2026, including:
    • Adzuna
    • CV-Library
    • Indeed
    • Jobsite
    • LinkedIn
    • Reed
    • The Career Wallet
    • Total Jobs
  • LinkedIn: 2 posts.

Friday 02 November 2026

  • LinkedIn: 1 post.

Saturday 03 November 2026

  • No job search was completed today.

Sunday 04 November 2026

  • No job search was completed today.

Good Deeds

  • No good deeds were completed this week.
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[QUESTION] What’s the best and worst airport you’ve been to?

I have only been to 1 airport, but that was to look for suitable employment.

I don’t live too far from Gatwick airport, and it is very accessible by public transport.

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[QUESTION] What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised?

Eat what I like, within financial reason.

Growing up my mum always did her best to give my brother and myself the best, nutritious food possible. Whereas, my father would always get us microwaveables and takeaways.

Growing up, my mum kept to what she did, where food was concerned.

When both my brother and I got to working age, my mum expected us to chip in towards all bills, including for food.

We sort of would take turns to cook the food, though I generally burnt the food I cooked 🤣🤣🤣

I was never a fan of fruit and vegetables, and would have loved to have more takeaways.

Whenever my wife and I have the money, we would do our best to have takeaways. That’s generally up to 4 times per month.