Sentences with phrase «avoid talking about work»

Mention the great parts of the job and the company — and what you can bring to the role if hired — and avoid talking about the work flexibility aspect of the position, since that can be a turn - off to a potential employer.

Holiday season is the perfect time to reconnect with family and friends, enjoy good food and avoid talking about work.

Avoid talking about work, school or any other serious (aka boring) subjects to your date, especially when you're under the covers!

Not exact matches

Avoid the word «just» when talking with other parents about our kids or their peers: «She is just applying to the state schools,» «he is just going to community college,» «they are just working for right now.»

Weekly date nights can do wonders — especially if you can avoid talking about anything that feels like a family to - do list or an issue to solve at work.

But like I talk about here and here, working all 360 degrees of your body is essential for muscle development and definition, as well as avoiding injury.

Other oils are healthier (less saturated), but I recommend eating whole (unprocessed) foods whenever possible and so encourage people to avoid oils in part for the same reason I encourage people to avoid avoid white bread and added sugars — the nutrient to calorie density of these foods (something Dr. Fuhrman famously talks about in his work) is exceedingly low.

And while I was trying to remain optimistic about how «not everything lasts forever,» I finally realized a lot of it was my ego talking, trying to avoid the hard conversations and work it was going to take to rebuild the foundation of our friendship.

works, the number one thing you should avoid talking about online or offline, and how to put your best foot forward on the Internet.

You can talk about your career, but you should avoid mentioning where you work.

The director of Darkest Hour talks about working with Gary Oldman and avoiding the typical pitfalls of a World War II biopic.

This is what works, is you can follow the process, and we do talk about Facebook ads, how to set them up, specifically what mistakes to avoid in the premium training.

She is married to the author Jonathan Safran Foer - a subject she tends to avoid talking about in interviews because she prefers that her work stand alone.

Previously, we've talked about how indexing does not work so well in less liquid bond markets, with active management producing alpha by avoiding -LSB-...]

We've talked about moving to the next level of blogging but, at this point, we're writing for fun and trying to avoid anything that resembles trying to work for someone else!

[1] The conversation that constitutes a Tino Sehgal sale consists of his talking to the buyer (usually a representative from a museum) before a notary and witnesses, generally with about five legal stipulations of the purchase: that the work be installed only by someone whom Sehgal himself has authorized via training and prior collaboration; that the people enacting the piece be paid an agreed - upon minimum; that the work be shown over a minimum period of six weeks (in order to avoid allegations of ephemerality); that the piece not be photographed; and that if the buyer resells the concept, he does so with this same oral contract.

As fluid as these works appear they avoid the trappings of lyricism whilst indicating a newer, less encumbered romanticism, something I was reminded of when talking with Erin in her London studio about her works and those of Günter Umberg.

It's fine for Magic Leap to hold off on revealing hardware, but I wish the talented team behind it didn't keep talking about their work in the most blandly inspirational manner possible, doing their best to avoid acknowledging the larger field they're working in.

Avoid talking about your job search at work or on social media while you are employed.

Avoid talking about things outside of work unless you're asked to.

We had Renita Kalhorn for the first segment, talking about working at your optimum and avoiding burnout, and she shared candid insights about her own career.

Having a «melt - down» strategy will avoid a family argument, and it keeps mum and dad strong in their «couple bubble» which is something Dr. Stan Tatkin talks about in his book, «Wired for Love» and in his therapy work generally.

In the Midwest, we often put our head down, work extremely hard, and avoid talking about politics, religion, or anything controversial (aside from sports) for the sake of preserving relationships.

If you truly want to make your relationship work, you need to avoid talking to friends and family members about the affair.

This approach avoids the use of a lot of language around what isn't working in lieu of talking about solutions and successes.

Robert Bass, Robert N. Bass Ltd., an Phoenix - based attorney and educator whose law practice concentrates in defending real estate licensees in errors and omissions claims before the Arizona Real Estate Department, talks about working effectively with attorneys and avoiding disputes that can derail deals.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.