Three weeks ago I did something I've been meaning to do for months, and left my job. Even though I was only working mornings, the constant stream of English translations of contracts, government documents and highly-classified intelligence material other stuff which I was meant to mould into more readable English had been getting ever more [...]

I've decided to cut my hours down at work, to mornings only, so I can do more Chinese study. I've been getting increasingly restless at work, as I'm no longer on any kind of learning curve. When I started it was great, and it's done wonders for my Chinese reading - exposed me to lots [...]