Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 24th, 2009
Making the transition to your graduate job, you will find that for most of your day will be spent either at your desk or in a meeting for hours on end. Spending all that time seated (and probably hunched over a keyboard) is not really good for your circulation, posture or anything other than working!
Most graduates will find themselves gaining weight when they begin their careers as their lifestyles undergo significant change. It doesn’t help that many will acquire the habit of munching on junk snacks at their desks through the day and often late into the night.
You can counteract this change in your lifestyle. If you didn’t like the other three suggestions, then I am guessing you are definitely not going to enjoy this one. Exercise. There are so many benefits to you from exercise it would take me forever to list them.
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Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 20th, 2009
You want it all? Well, you can’t have it all, but you can have most of it. Life is about choices and you must make them, often resulting in some things being excluded. It means establishing your priorities and fitting everything else around them. It also means taking responsibility for your well being. That you feel the way you do as a result of your lifestyle.
If you want to perform like a high performance machine, then you need to provide yourself with a high level of care. The more time you put into your well being, the higher your potential output.
So how do you decide on your priorities? Well it’s actually not so difficult to do. In fact I have done this for you already in …..
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Posted in Graduate Experience on Feb 19th, 2009
It is only natural when you are entering a new period of your life that you will encounter a clash of priorities. Your graduate position will impose new demands on your time will leave you asking “how could I possibly fit it all into my life?
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