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I've put some things out there over the years.  I used to run another blog - "pubsgrubsandbeers.co.uk" - where I wrote reviews of...pubs, grub and beers.  I published a couple of apps, most notably the amazing "Ghostify" (RIP). I've written a few LinkedIn articles, posts etc. And lots of reviews.  It's fair to say, though, that I've never taken these things seriously from a money-making perspective. I've done these things for myself, to see if I could, to learn stuff, for fun...and anything on top of that is a bonus. One time, a pub down the road invited me to eat for free at their restaurant to try and improve their one-star review on pubsgrubsandbeers.co.uk (a quirk in SEO meant that my review actually appeared above their own website on google searches) - this was a big win!  Ghostify earned me some money. I think getting towards £100 in total. Having never gotten any money for code I'd written for myself, I was delighted. Given that I...

  One of my favourite coffee spots down by the river. Honest. I never even used to drink coffee.  It was only really when I had kids it became medicinal.

No real datasets were harmed during the making of this graphic. "Shopping for jobs" is the way I usually describe interviewing. You fancy moving on, you get to go and visit a few different companies, meet some new people, learn about how they do things - and decide whether that job would be a good move in your career. It's good fun!  Usually, however, I'm employed when I'm looking to move on.

This is just a LinkedIn post I wrote earlier in the year. But it feels like it sits nicely in my reflections on unemployment, so keeping it here for safekeeping. Carry on, past James: 

I've been practicing my photoshop lately. Starting to get some really seamless results! For the first few months of this year I suffered my first significant period of unemployment in my career. Having now "come out the other side", I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what I learnt through the process, so I'll be writing a few blog entries on this over the coming weeks.