MaryLou Costa
Freelance Journalist and Content Consultant at Freelance
Freelance journalist focusing on the future of work & advancing women at work. My online workshop, 'Get media savvy - and get featured!' is now available!
Articles
-
5 days ago |
inews.co.uk | MaryLou Costa
After living in Paris for four years, building her career as a freelance journalist, and having a child, Selin Bucak’s return to London last year came with a big shock. Despite having steady earnings, Selin’s application for an American Express credit card was declined. She discovered that in her time away from the UK, where she’d lived for eight years prior to her Paris move, her credit score had been completely decimated.
-
6 days ago |
inews.co.uk | MaryLou Costa
Do you have a work dilemma, career quandary, or are facing challenges in the office? The i Paper’s work column answers readers’ questions with leading experts in careers and workplace psychology. Email questions to [email protected] am desperate to get out of my current job. Not only is it stressful – people are constantly crying in the toilets – and the environment is toxic, but I am working crazy hours for average pay.
-
1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | MaryLou Costa
Hannah Swift first visited Barbados in 2008 on a work trip – and instantly fell in love with the country, vowing to return. In 2015, she sold the marketing agency she’d owned and run in the UK for the past four years, to spend six months in Barbados, with the aim of taking a break and embracing island culture. “It’s such a friendly culture, and I love being in and around water,” says Hannah, 39, from Darley Dale in the Peak District. “It’s a small island, where everyone knows everyone.
-
2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | MaryLou Costa
Do you have a work dilemma, career quandary, or are facing challenges in the office? The i Paper’s work column answers readers’ questions with leading experts in careers and workplace psychology. Email questions to [email protected] have never worked with a lazier, more work-shy, excuse-making, devious person than a woman on my team that I regrettably have to deal with on a daily basis.
-
3 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | MaryLou Costa
When Lauren Currie, her partner Christopher, and their then-two-year-old son left London in 2020 for the Swedish capital Stockholm, life seemed idyllic. There was cheap childcare – a quarter of the price in London – affordable housing, lots of access to nature, an organised health system and high levels of public safety.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 1K
- Tweets
- 2K
- DMs Open
- No
Morning all, happy school holidays to those who celebrate! Has anyone here moved from the UK to another country, only to return & find their credit score weakened? I have a great interview opp in The I for the relevant person, please contact [email protected]. Thanks!
Still looking for this one!
Morning all! For a national newspaper I am looking for UK expats who've returned home - only to find their credit history wiped, and having to deal with the challenges that poses. Please email [email protected]. Thanks! #journorequest
Morning all! For a national newspaper I am looking for UK expats who've returned home - only to find their credit history wiped, and having to deal with the challenges that poses. Please email [email protected]. Thanks! #journorequest