📝 Job Board Update — Feb. 1
Happy Monday folks! Hope everyone’s weekends were “fun”. For those of us in the UK, Covid cases continue to decline and it won’t be long before our national lockdowns end. For our American friends, I’m hoping a decent relief package is approved soon. Until then, here’s this week’s job board, including a cheeky bit of minimalism…
Job Corner ✍️
Exactly 400 new jobs added to the board this weekend, taking our total up to more than 1,450 full-time, part-time, freelance and internship positions. We also have 83 deadlines approaching in the next 10 days. New newsrooms this week include ABC News, Bloomberg, CNN, ITN, the NBA, Press Association, Rogers, Sky, The Information, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Toronto Star and WaterAid.
Due to a limit on the number of people that can be added to a Google Spreadsheet, I’ve made two versions listing exactly the same jobs, so no need to have access to both. If you’re a paying member, you’ll have access to one of the two below links/buttons… 👇
Preview of the 400 new jobs added to the board this weekend 👇
The Advice Epidemic
And I’ll send you guys off with some advice from our friends over at The Minimalists, who continue to provide stellar advice and pillars to build our daily schedules around. Here are a few lines from their aptly-timed poem on The Advice Epidemic, which I found super helpful, specifically the use of the word “should”, which I absolutely despise. We’ve got to stop telling people what they should be doing, and instead ask more questions of our closest friends and family to help them overcome their problems themselves.
The urge to convince others is overwhelming.
On the surface, it appears virtuous to help,
to instruct, to coach, to guide, to motivate.
Giving advice gives the impression of nobility,
as if we have a obligation to ameliorate the plight of the world,
to assist people headed the "wrong" way,
to point people in the "right" direction.
We are all middlemen in the middle of a self-help epidemic.
Just look at social media.
Overnight experts espousing advice:
You should wake up early.
You shouldn't eat that.
You should embrace change.
You shouldn't get anxious.
You should change your habits.
But, really, there is no "should."
There never was.
And without that sandcastle of "shoulds,"
all advice begins to crumble in the wind.
That’s all for today. See you on Wednesday for Inside The Middle East! 👋