Category: Balance
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About me / my work
I’m Luke. I’m a dispute resolution lawyer (Senior Associate) at Clayton Utz and former CEO and current board director of Out for Australia, an Australian LGBTIQ+ student mentoring non-profit. I graduated from the University of Queensland in 2013 with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws and from the University of Sydney in 2016 with a Master of Laws. My…
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A piece of advice for new graduates
“Managers are people too”. That’s what someone told me in my first week. At first, it seems like a strange, unnecessary observation. Most graduates understand that their manager is indeed a person, not a canary or an antelope. Sure enough though, we understand what people are getting at: managers have their own hopes, anxieties, lapses,…
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The crossroads of work and passion
Nobody tells you to go do Hip-Hop Dance. It’s not that work doesn’t want you to or doesn’t find it interesting (in fact, changing into street wear can raise a few eyebrows in the lift wells). It’s just that, in the scheme of things that your work cares about, finding your new hobby isn’t one…
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The sobering truth about who you are (and it’s not what you think)
The other day, I had lunch with a friend who recently moved from a job that sucked to a job that has changed him for the better. His new role seems to offer him a form of quiet bliss and a smooth grin appeared on his face as he described his newfound happiness. Knowing him…
Luke Furness 