Shaping your job to fit you
These are my favourite shoes. I’ve had them for a while, and yes, I can see that they’re tatty. They are so comfortable, so much so, that I’ve worn them through. They weren’t always this way though. They were inflexible when I first got them, they rubbed, and they were too tight around the widest part of my foot. Yet I wore them in until eventually they fitted, and they fitted well. Why am I telling you about my shoes? Because my shoe is a metaphor for a job. Some of us at the moment might be contemplating going [...]