Work, Rest and Play

As credit crunch continues to bite (ouch) more and more people are looking for second jobs or return to work part time.

We discussed looking for a job some months back and now we turn to investigate Christmas jobs.

The festive period sees many new job opportunities for part-time and temporary work. On the build up to Christmas shops, restaurants and bars all took to recruit extra staff. Job sites are often overlooked as the commissions paid would not make recruitment for such short periods worth while. Local jobs are often advertised on free ads sites where advertisers can write their own descriptions - for example who wouldn't be intrigued by this recent job ad:

Listing Summary | Location: New York, Lincolnshire

Salary: £1,005,000.00 | A Global online services marketplace connecting businesses, freelancers & professionals through a community driven knowledge platform.

Of course its most likely a typo but worth a punt if you want to make money.

High on many peoples priorities is that the workplace should be fun. That can include being able to listen to personal stereos, ipods or mp3 players - many IT workers have their iPods plugged into their pc's and with the prices of the latest iPod Touch now at all time low we expect to see a surge in sales of both the iconic ipod classic and the latest iPod Touch players as gifts for office workers who want to have music and games of their choice at their workstation.

Fun Place to work

We couldn't fail to see the irony in this recent post about Land Rover being a fun place to work
which coincided with the news that Land Rover were going to shed 200 jobs up and down the UK. Whilst the remaining staff celebrate the good publicity that the new Freelander is attracting playing games like Top Trumps and Darts Quiz to learn more about their vehicles others less fortunate are tightening their belts with the grim prospect of an expensive Christmas without work.

Freelander Fuel Savings | Cheap Petrol & Cheap Perfume

Hot off the press from the Land Rover publicity machine is the news that the latest production models of Freelander that will be available in 2009 are to feature a revolutionary stop - start technology that tests have shown reduced fuel consumption by up to 10% in heavy urban driving. The news brought to us by the proud publicity people of land rover also takes the opportunity to boast of their commitment to the Land Rover Our Planet explaining that not only will the fuel savings make the Freelander cheaper to run than many other popular SUVs but will also be greener as there will be a considerable reduction of Carbon Dioxide emissions from the vehicles indeed as the press release states there will be zero emissions when the vehicle engine is not running - amazing.

Cheap Petrol or Cheap Perfume

On a lighter note a search for [buy petrol online] returned an intriguing result - www.petroldirect.com which is Britain's first internet only petrol retailer offering cheap petrol, diesel and specialist fuels at amazing prices and delivered to your door.

Suspicions of the too good to be true variety were raised when it was noticed that one of the biofuels offered retailed at £300 per 15ml - more than most pure perfumes. The sample of the economy version smelled very much like cheap perfume - the kind found on backstreet market stalls up and down the country.