I have this constant dilema with myself and education. I don’t like the education system – it doesn’t work for me. I can’t stand sitting around being expected to be engaged in stuff for such a long period of time. Over days. Weeks. Years. What’s worked for me in the end is to find my [...]
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How did my workliday go?
It’s Sunday night (or Monday very early, jetlag!) and I’ve been back from my Workliday a couple of days now. How did it go? Mostly good as I didn’t do too much work at all. Was travelling with the (3) kids exhausting? Yes. I’m now trying to figure out how to get that relaxing holiday [...]
My First Workliday Abroad
My work and home life very much overlaps. I do what I need to do to get things done. Sometimes this means working late. Sometimes it means having a lie in. Sometimes stress is included too – “like argghh, I’m supposed to be looking after the kids, but all this stuff is happening around me!” [...]
The business of events, for mums…
This whole topic of juggling babies with modern day life has resurfaced itself for me. Obviously it is not a coincidence, it’s all to do with Sherry #3. And with a new baby I think again about how I can get out and involved with events. It’s always a tricky one, that is never [...]
Imagine being sponsored and not knowing about it…
This has wound me up for a while. P&G’s campaign this year state that they are the proud sponsors of mums. Eh, hem. Excuse me. You don’t sponsor me. And am sure you don’t sponsor millions of other mums, surely you need our permission? What are you giving them if you are? The privilege to buy your [...]
The Importance of Creating Memories
There’s no shortage of times where I wished I had more tangible memories from the past. I barely have any photos of me or my family growing up. Videos are non-existent. On the very rare occasion I come across an old photo, though now this is more likely to happen when someone tags me on [...]
Blogging for Kids
We’re going on a long holiday soon. Not quite sure how long it will last at this stage…however it does mean that we are ‘unschooling‘ our two wonderful boys – currently aged 5 & 6. Aaron (our 6 year old) is starting to read and write. Ben still has a way to go, he [...]
Lets work less
I’ve long had frustration with how our capitalist system works. Especially since having kids. Things get damn expensive. This post kind of focuses of the children/family angle, but will hopefully show how our society is driven to spend and we increasingly feel tied down because of what we feel we need to commit to. Perhaps [...]
Interest led work activities
I was chatting to a mum today about life as working mother. What she use to do, what she’d like to do. What I do, which took a wee while to explain She described what I do as similar to the child led education approach that our boys experience at Lewes New School. Which is [...]
Freedom…well almost!
Next week my boys start a new year at Lewes New School. I’m excited because it marks a big change for moi. My eldest is soon to be a whooping 6 years old. That means it has been around 6.5 years since I felt the loving yet physically difficult pregnancy that really changes everything. It’s [...]
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I'm Rosie Sherry. I currently spend my time working on building up community and products for the software testing industry. This includes running the Software Testing Club, a community of 11,000 registered software testers. Producing The Testing Planet, bring awesome-ness content to software testers. And The Ministry of Testing - events and learning opportunities.
I love the web and all the opportunities it brings.
Keywords that describe me: (lean) startups, communities, social web, business strategy, collaboration, coworking and software testing.
I'm married with 3 young kids. One of my biggest drivers is to achieve a work life balance for my family. This isn't easy.
