This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind

recognisable home improvement brands such as B&Q and ScrewFix, who help make better homes

accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to B&Q? I definitely do.

King Fischer have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will

support and prepare for retail's next digital age from infrastructure to data analytics.

They are looking for the right people to help them succeed, and that could be you.

They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data analytics,

data science, e-commerce, and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits,

competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.

So if you're interested, go to careers.kingfischer.com today to find out more about their tech and

digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fischer for sponsoring this podcast.

Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Anna Codria-Rado. She is a journalist

author and podcaster. She writes about business culture and technology with a particular focus

on working life and modern work. I also really recommend her brilliant podcast is this working.

I love listening to it because it's very honest and open about the highs and lows of this

work culture that we've been thrust into over the last few years. Her writing has appeared in the

New York Times, the Guardian, BBC, Wired, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, Monaco, and many others.

And her first book, You're the Business. How to build a successful career when you strike out

alone is out now. The handbook for anyone who works for themselves. It's really a one-stop shop

for all your freelancing needs. From tricky clients to managing your finances,

we talk all about the positives and the negatives, why it can be amazing to work for yourself

and also really quite stressful and how we can find more joy and more opportunities as a freelancer

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