But Really I'm Not Terribly Interested In

Go To Lots Of Interviews, At Least One A Month Even When You Don't Need A Job, To Keep In Training For When You Do.

Meetings ... Are Rather Like Cocktail Parties. You Don't Want To Go, But You're Cross Not To Be Asked.

The Memo's Chief Function ... Is As A Track-coverer, So That You Can Turn On Someone Six Months Later And Snarl: 'well, You Should Have Known About It, I Sent You A Memo.

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.

In A Village You Can't Sack Or Fight With Someone, As You'll Find Yourself Stuck Beside Them In The Hairdresser's Next Morning.