We had our monthly graduate videoconference yesterday. Our mix of grads has changed since 2010, and the videoconference just seemed to emphasise it. With the recent promotion of one of the grads to a coordinator role, we now have more females than males. Considering where we started in 2010, this is pretty cool.

Anyway. We discussed the next ( Read more... )

It is difficult to bring myself to post nowadays - and the few times I have felt like it LJ turned out to be down.

My job in Adelaide is turning out to be the best time I've ever had, work-wise. I'm sitting in on meetings with partners and hearing them talk about their practice groups and fields they work in, and evaluating them for the next ( Read more... )

Photography is one of my few hobbies I feel okay about letting people at work know about. It's strange. Objectively, comics, roller derby, science fiction & fantasy books and movies, tabletop roleplaying, video games, blogging, cartoons etc. are not all that odd or difficult to talk about. I can't even say I'm ashamed of them. And yet I still don't ( Read more... )

It's been a year since I started working for Wolfram & Hart. A year ago, I was flown up to Sydney to spend the week learning about this firm and what exactly they were hoping from hiring the 8 of us and starting this new program ( Read more... )

Yesterday I worked in Sydney! It was the induction day for the new graduates at Wolfram & Hart, and we got to go meet them and catch up with each other as well since most of the 2010 grads were starting our new rotations too.

It's so weird, the assessment day and the induction week are still pretty clear in my memory (it'll be a year on Tuesday ( Read more... )

I've been realising more and more recently that most of my guidelines for navigating both the workplace and life-with-responsibilities-in-general have come from Mad Men.

It may be set in the 1960s, but apparently that doesn't really matter.

I've been collecting image stills from the show to illustrate my lessons.

Dress to impress.

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I am ill. I suspect it's the flu ( Read more... )

So it seems that LJ has lurched back into a zombie-life, with various music video memes floating around. Some people participating I did not even realise still lurked on LJ, too, so that's been a surprise.

On the one hand hooray people seem to be around, but on the other I am a pretty curmudgeonly individual nowadays and am easily irritated by ( Read more... )

This morning one of the first emails I read at work was that one of the BD graduates is leaving at the end of July, after our first rotation is done.

RATS!

RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP!

Seriously, though, this is the first to hit me emotionally. We literally started together. We didn't get to become close, working in different offices, but I  ( Read more... )

So, the photo shoot is over, for now.

But. 85 people in two days? No idea how that compares to previous years, but it felt hectic. Several reasons:

• Each person was booked for a 10 minute session. I had about 60 people booked into time slots by late Tuesday. 
• A few people dropped out at the last second so we had empty spaces.
• Photographer was ( Read more... )