by cjharris | | current affairs, popular culture, work
Geoffrey Rush has won $850,000 in his defamation case against the Daily Telegraph, and stands to receive millions more in damages. The fact that the Murdoch tabloid is sensationalism posing as news will come as a shock to precisely no one. But Murdoch is not the real...
by cjharris | | life, work
I spent a few horrible years working closely with someone who was a full-blown narcissist. I don’t mean difficult to work with, I mean ticked every single box when I googled “what is a narcissist”. It was only after watching this person systematically destroy others...
by cjharris | | life, popular culture, travel, work, writing
Build your author platform, they said. Sign up to Instagram, they said. So I did – about six months ago. And I’m gonna be honest, I still don’t really have a clue what Instagram is for. As far as I can tell, there are now a few different types of Instagrammers...
by cjharris | | film, work, writing
I was recently told that on social media, my life looks like a series of red carpets. But while I have stood on the occasional bit of crimson to promote my independent film Zelos, the reality of making an indie feature bears no resemblance to my Instagram account...
by cjharris | | film, work
I had never stepped onto a film set before I decided to write and produce my feature film Zelos. Because how hard could it possibly be, right? Surprisingly (to me at least) it turns out that there are a quite a LOT of things that go wrong on a film set. This is by no...
by cjharris | | life, work
This month marks four years with the same employer, which is the longest I’ve ever held a job by a long shot. The greatest skill I’ve acquired over my career is getting fired from jobs. I’ve lost almost as many jobs as I’ve actually had. Employers...