Writing Prompts: Retirement

How do you want to retire? What a question! I want to retire with a comfortable nest egg in the bank, and maybe a small measure of fame (and additional fortune) from my book(s). I can’t begin to quantify how likely that goal is to achieve, but it’s certainly how I want to retire!

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Writing Prompts: Career Plans

What is your career plan? What are the working ambitions of this meerkat? Well, in terms of my job as a bathroom sales consultant, I am generally quite happy where I’m at, though if I was offered the role of assistant manager I wouldn’t turn it down. The reality is, I am not under any […]

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Writing Prompts: The Angry Goat

I don’t refer to a literal goat (that might have been easier to deal with). I refer to a particularly angry customer that darkened our doorway a few weeks back. To give him the bare minimum of credit, a problem with delivery is the original source of what unfolded next, but that in no way […]

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Writing Prompts: Late Night Drama

My various jobs in retail (and my prior office experiences) have never required me to work nights. I did one ‘night shift’ when working in office supply retail, and I’ve done some late evenings on occasions of stock takes, but regular nightshifts have not been a thing for me. There was however one occasion where […]

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Writings Prompts: Inspired by Failure

We all fail, from time to time. Not everything in life goes smoothly. That’s normal. That’s life. The question is, how do we respond to a set-back? Once, I applied for a job at a very upmarket London retail store. I was offered an interview, and the first step of the interview process was a […]

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The Meerkat Muse – 22/3/23

Here we go again! The Weather If there is a pastime all Brits indulge in, it’s moaning about the weather. At the start of this Muse cycle, the weather was bleak. We had a bit of snow (which thankfully didn’t settle), followed by relentless, torrential, cold rain. The other Thursday was particularly damp. The skies […]

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