We cubicle bumblebees love to idealize work-from-home arrangements. The reclamation of commute time, the quiet space, the sweatpants… But there's a certain joy that's come from returning to the office after three years!
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Reclaiming My Creative Space (and Reprioritizing My Life)
I was struck by inspiration one evening, just as I was setting up my home office to return to work after a creatively expansive year-long maternity leave. It came in the form of this quote: Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write,…
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Happy May 1st, Accountants!
A very happy Accountants’ Holiday to you, Canadian number crunchers! We made it another year! I hope all my accountant friends are enjoying the day off (or at least recovering peacefully from their respective tax parties). If you know a public accountant (or you are one), you know we all…
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How to Work From Home (After Building Your Career In-Office)
I was absolutely a work-from-home advocate pre-pandemic. As it happened, we were actually very close to completing a work-from-home proposal at my office when the pandemic struck! How about that for coincidental timing. With the matter settled, I said goodbye to my “creative cubicle” and set up my little home…
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The Creative Cubicle: Haven for Inspiration or Sign of a Cluttered Mind?
Cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Or is it empty desk, empty mind? Tour a cubicle-filled office and you’ll probably see a moderate amount of stuff on the desks, a few resources on the wall, maybe some personal effects, but occasionally you’ll run into two extremes: Let me tell you, I have…
New Series: Making Space
The physical space we give ourselves speaks volumes about the figurative space we give ourselves. In this series, your friendly neighbourhood bean counter explores the spaces in which our fellow creatives work and play, from office to home, paper to digital.
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Happy International Women’s Day 2024! This Year, We Inspire Inclusion
Happy International Women’s Day! This year’s theme is “Inspire Inclusion”. I’ve spent some time pondering what exactly this means to me, and I would love to share my thoughts and a personal story. Borrowing from the International Women’s Day publication: To inspire inclusion means to celebrate diversity and empowerment on…
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Am I Working for Free on February 29th? One Accountant’s Perspective
Woohoo, a bonus day! Or is that just to our employers? Deviating from my usual content, I thought it’d be fitting to hop on today and talk about this question, because I think there’s more to it than meets the eye and it might be worth discussing! So, allow me…
Three Business Valuation Quotes Helping Me Tackle the Blank Page
Showing up to the blank page is hard. Does your day job have anything to say about it? In this post I share my three favourite quotes from my studies in business valuations and explore the parallels between this profession and art.
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Creativity and Career
Many of us struggle with trying to enjoy a prolific creative life while holding down a 9-to-5, and so we just... Don't! We resolve that we'll pick up our hobbies again upon retirement, and until then we go on trudging through our day jobs. That can't be right, can it?…
