Tags: money

• Instant success

  The other day I was chatting with a friend about British ’success’ culture after reading a multitude of Apprentice tweets. What is our fascination with the idea of instant success?!
  Is hard work overrated?
  Jade Goody rose to fame after being an unreserved extrovert (to put it nicely) on Big Brother and by publicizing and capitalizing [...]

• Life is a Journey, Not a Destination

  In England I have found that a lot of emphasis is put on social class: what designer clothes you own, what job you have, what posh boarding school you went to, how many properties you own—in a nutshell, how much money you have.
  There’s a song lyric swimming in my head that goes “if it’s the [...]