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My Wandering Path Towards UK Employment: Part III

If you want to catch up, here is part I and part II. My first days at Neal’s Yard Dairy were great.  I got to a meet a whole new crew of co-workers and learn about a business that I had little knowledge of. I...

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Restaurant Rebel

I’m sick of fancy food. As a restaurant enthusiast and adventurous eater, it’s taken me a long time to get here.  But here I am, and I have the need to go public with my rebellion against Michelin stars.My...

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My Wandering Path Towards Employment: Part 2

For the first part of this fun story, click here During my first months in London, the restaurant recruiting system didn’t impress me and I wanted to opt out of the whole thing entirely. Dealing with hospitality...

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Meaningful Work and the Pursuit of a Dream

As I mentioned last week, I decided to use our move across the Atlantic from New York City to London as an opportunity to change careers.  My goal: move from restaurant management to something with some semblance of...

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Travel Enthusiasm vs. Travel Tyranny

My Excel checklist was open, my fingers ready on the keyboard. Drew and I were considering a week long holiday in March, and my extensive research on Europe was finally coming to fruition. In my ‘Europe Travel’...

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My Wandering Path Towards UK Employment

We have been in the UK for almost eighteen months now, which has felt more like eighteen seconds.  The moment when we decided to take the opportunity from Julie’s company to move to London does not seem that far...