Moomin Valley

The latest episode . I met the director on Thursday. They didn't try to discourage me from doing it (I didn't expect they would). Th...

I now have a meeting lined up with my boss and discussed the whole thing with a colleague who took a similar package in 2020. He said that t...

VSS stands for "Voluntary Separation Scheme". The details were announced this afternoon. There are three weeks to apply for it fro...

So my employer announced a couple of days ago in the weekly newsletter that there will be a voluntary redundancy scheme. The details won...

So, Moominmama talked to HR about the "voluntary redundancy". They said that there was no restructuring in progress and she would ...

Moominmama was offered a redundancy package. Seems a bit like an offer you can't refuse. When she asked if she would be fired anyway if ...

A year on, the career plan needs updating. I agreed with the School Director to take long service leave in 2022 and delay my leadership pos...

I was contacted by a head hunter today for a senior government position on the borderlines of research and policy. Normally headhunters appr...

A couple of months ago I discussed my career decision making issues. I made a decision and will take long service leave next year and reduc...

About a month ago I posted about my career decision-making . So, because I ummed and ahhed, the incoming director found someone else for the...

My university has a big deficit currently and one money-saving move has been to ask people who are eligible to take long-service leave. Ever...

My long position was stopped out on Wednesday. Now back to more or less zero profit on this account - still have a positive overall result f...

In a few months we will reach "financial independence" - our annual spending will be feasible with a l ittle less than a 3% p.a...

My employer announced the pay deal for the next 5 years. For the average academic it will be a 9.1% increase (less for me), which is less th...

Today is my fiftieth birthday. It feels like quite a milestone. This morning I was sitting in a presentation with a colleague from a u...

According to this nominal income per capita in Western Australia is double that in the US and in the ACT double that in the UK. This shows t...

She had the interview about four weeks ago but had to wait till today to get confirmation that her position which was a temporary one has be...

If the stock markets do well, the Australian Dollar stays high, and we don't buy a house we might hit $US800k this year... Buying a hous...

I was just invited to come and talk in Rome. But I turned it down. I think I will have done enough traveling for the year and I don't f...

How much should I charge as a consultant? My employer allows us to spend 20% of our time on consulting. So I figure I should take my salary ...