Jason Downes
52/52: The final word
On January 2nd this year, I wrote my first blog post and finished with the words "I start 2020 with my eyes on a new challenge and the...
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Jason Downes
- Dec 29, 2020
- 1 min
51/52: Merry Christmas, it's a tradition!
T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, the Downes' were scrambling to take their annual Christmas pyjama photo! I...
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Jason Downes
- Dec 22, 2020
- 3 min
50/52: Discovering the good medicine out West
After a few days of R&R in Perth, I hired a bike and decided to head down to Fremantle for a long but leisurely ride. While I was able to...
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Jason Downes
- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
49/52: Perspective takes distance
Sometimes it takes a little distance to form a perspective. It was Friday, Nov 27th and Victoria had just recorded 28 straight days of...
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Jason Downes
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
48/52: If you always do what you’ve always done...
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford After 16 years in the recruitment...
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Jason Downes
- Nov 22, 2020
- 2 min
47/52: Cycling the covid kilos
Rediscovering the joy of freedom is simply wonderful. 6 weeks ago I made a goal to drop 5 kgs by Christmas - a conservative 500g per...
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Jason Downes
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
46/52: Partnering
Employing people is not easy and I believe the recruitment consulting industry needs to do more to set themselves and their clients up...
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Jason Downes
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
45/52: We're Back!
Melbourne is on track to be one of the world's best news stories on the Covid-front. As I write this, it's now 'Donut Day 7' - that is,...
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Jason Downes
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
44/52: Missed chance to 'Get on the beers'
Sometimes you make a big mistake, but if you're just clever enough, just agile enough, mistakes can be turned to your favour. In case you...
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Jason Downes
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
43/52: A disconnect from the people
Ours is a city of two tales right now - one of progress and achievement and the other of locked doors and public enquiries. Melbourne has...
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Jason Downes
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
42/52: Resilience, Rest & Fluids
I’ve been told I’m a resilient person. Someone who can dig deep and make it through the shitty times to enjoy the better days that...
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Jason Downes
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
41/52: The Twelve Zero Heroes
This is a once-in-a-century budget that has one real goal - saving and creating jobs. Behind that goal sit some real heroes. The...
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Jason Downes
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
40/52: As Melbourne rebuilds, I discovered the joy of jigsaw puzzles
If you want a bit of happy juice, a few hundred mini hits of dopamine, then forget dodging the police 6kms from home and instead start a...
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Jason Downes
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
39/52: An early release?
I caught this black house spider while I was cleaning the deck over the weekend in my endless list of home improvement projects. After...
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Jason Downes
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
38/52: This dog is helping us raise top-notch kids
In late March, our family was lucky enough to get two puppies who are now almost fully-grown Standard Poodles. These two new additions to...
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Jason Downes
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
37/52: Google helped me paint my fence
I had a couple of jobs to work on around the house this week including painting the fence and fixing a Bluetooth problem with my...
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Jason Downes
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
36/52: Get your ducks lined up!
It’s the first day of spring 2020 and the positives are beginning to outweigh the negatives. There’s a bit to look forward to so I...
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Jason Downes
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
35/52: Jump Around
It's been a really hard week. We're halfway through stage 4 lockdown, it's week 6 (or is it 8) of homeschooling and then this mid-winter...
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Jason Downes
- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
34/52: Recruit for greatness
A couple of weeks ago the 2020 list of the top 50 great places to work in Australia was published (congratulations to Cisco Sytems,...
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Jason Downes
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
33/52: Skills Bucket List (aka some shortcuts and a download)
There are a few things on the skills bucket list worth ticking off: learning another language, playing an instrument and touch typing to...
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