Category Archives: Finance
How would you have coached Clegg, Cameron and Brown for their election debate…?
It is always very obvious that when politicians speak they are never actually using their own words and thoughts but rather those of the spin doctors who coach them on what to do and say to the media. Last night was a very good example and you only had to listen to Gordon Brown to [...]
Are the days of door-to-door insurance salesmen over?
My dad used to collect overdue insurance premiums door to door as a part-time job back in the 1970’s, this is something you never seem to see any more. Nor do you get insurance salesmen knocking on your door although they do have a habit of phoning you at the most inopportune times – and [...]
Has the job of a bank teller become more interesting in the computer age?
I certainly hope so because I recall doing work experience in a bank as a high school student and I found it to be dead boring. I had three days to do at the Commonwealth Bank on The Corso in Manly and by the end of the first day the one advantage I had gleaned [...]
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