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Generally Minimal Care by Gida Rossouw on 2012/08/28 19:21 in Getting My Chance “Generally people don’t care!” A quote that took me some time to learn and accept the fact that people don’t really care for things outside of their own world, which is great actually.  There is one of those e-card doing the rounds saying we buy things we don’t need, w... comments (0) Getting More Connected by Gida Rossouw on 2012/02/01 07:13 in Getting My Chance 2012 marks my fifth year in the rat race, which sad to say, I started enjoying. On having a long December holiday I started missing the constant emails and long lines of email trails, and even found myself logging into my work email on one or two occasions. Working mainly in the UK last year, not only did I get used to... comments (0) Cultural Differences Dilemma by Gida Rossouw on 2009/04/30 09:02 in Getting My Chance   Throughout my consulting with GMC I have had the fortunate opportunity to rollout corporate identity to all the operational countries. The two of us in the conference call, neither English as our mother tongue but not seeming to be that big of a problem since it wasn’t the mother tongue of the operational countries either! <div styl... comments (0) YAAH! (Yet Another Acronym, Hooray) by Gida Rossouw on 2008/12/01 23:31 in Getting My Chance Reading through various documents, working in different business sectors and recently studying for the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Foundation course, I was quite surprised about the million ADDA (Acronyms to Describe Different Activities). This was forced to such an extent that in with the last six months the acronym CI, could mean either <stron... comments (0) Getting Mugged Catastrophe by Gida Rossouw on 2008/07/01 08:34 in Getting My Chance Working in Rosebank where traffic is fairly hectic (and finding parking is even more hectic), I decided to park at my aunts house, who lives about 700m from my work. So early-bird-me drives to work in the early morning hours, get to her house, have a cup of tea and then walk to work.   Fortunately ... comments (1) The real meaning of time words in the Corporate world by Gida Rossouw on 2008/06/02 08:37 in Getting My Chance Currently working full time, especially on projects, time is ‘key’. Scope creep is inevitable and to manage cost is like looking for ice in the Sahara.   <div style="t... comments (0) The unbearable pain of starting out: by Gida Rossouw on 2008/03/17 08:45 in Getting My Chance Starting out in the real world (after having a glorious holiday of several years at university), you would think that you will for once be taken seriously, and if not that, you will have a salary that will be your pathway to be taken seriously! What a surprise the grown up world turned out to be.   It starts with a little word I would l... comments (2)