About Emotivated Erika

Hi, welcome to Emotivated Erika, the personal blog of Erika Sykes.

Here you’ll find my thoughts and ideas regarding my personal experiences, hobbies, and interests. They’ll also be the odd rant, usually about things I’m passionate about, but they’ll be the odd general rant about this or that thrown in too. I also plan to use this site as an avenue to publicise and recommend various products, services and companies that I have used and / or would recommend.

The themes you can expect within this site include:

  1. Personal Development
  2. Jobs and Careers
  3. Occupy Leeds
  4. Regional Protests and Campaigns
  5. Anti-Cuts
  6. The Socialist Party

What I expect to recommend includes:

  1. Fashions and footwear for tall women
  2. Organic produce and suppliers
  3. Reliable suppliers of hiking and mountaineering products
I aim to publish a post to this site every weekend. There may be occasions where I’ve posted a lot during the week or posted what could have been a weekend post on the Friday, so skip posting the routine weekend post, but generally I will try and establish a routine of having at least one new post published every weekend. I generally only post to my blog when I have something worth writing about, or have organised my thoughts on the matter enough to be able to create a meaningful post, both in terms of its content and its length, so I would suggest that you also follow me on Twitter, or subscribe to me via Facebook to get more frequent messages from me, and you can then access my public shares on Facebook.

About Erika Sykes

I value myself as honest, trustworthy, determined and passionate. I classify my religion as Secular Humanism, I am a liberal politically and support the Socialist Party, which I joined during the Occupy Leeds occupation, having first been introduced to the Party and the regional branch I have since joined via the Jarrow March which marched through Leeds in October 2011.

I studied as a mature student, completing a mature access course in IT, maths and physics. The following year, I began a computing degree at Leeds University, but dropped out due to personal reasons, after a year out I achieved a 1st for my first year at Leeds Metropolitan University on a Computer Forensics degree. Another year out due to illness at the start of my 2nd year dried up my funding, and as yet I have been unable to return to finish my degree. Before, and during my college years, I did some work in retail and was a proud member of the Territorial Army, which gave me the opportunity to travel to Belgium for a period of training, and a tour of Iraq.

I picked up an interest in poker after several home games with friends, which eventually lead me to a part time professional career which helped support me during my years out from university. After focussing on online poker for a year, I was keen to try something else, and develop a more traditional career. I have interests in organisation, management and leadership, which influenced my decision to co-found Occupy Leeds.

My hobbies and interests which are likely to feature on this site at some stage, include but are not limited to:

  1. Hiking and Mountaineering
  2. Cooking and Food
  3. Computers, the Internet and other technology
If you wish to hire me, you can find more information on my Hire Erika page, when I’m seeking employment I will have a menu entry to this page available on the main navigation menu at the top of the site. If you just wish to see my CV, you can access a downloadable version in PDF format.

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