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Thrift

Katy Gosset meets a Christchurch woman who's teaching a new generation of New Zealanders how to pickle and preserve. 

Feature interview: how to break up with your job

Breaking up is hard to do in relationships but also breaking up with your job. Dr Tessa West is a social psychology professor at New York University who says our relationships with our careers and jobs can be a lot like relationships with people and sometimes it's best to break u ...  Show more

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