Absence

…makes the heart grow fonder”… – or not.
I have been absent from here since June, i.e. 3 months. I think I just didn’t feel like I had the time, any more, to do this. But, I also think that NOT doing this made me more aware that it WAS helping…
My most frequent reader – Wendell [...]

Life is strange lately…

Well, here I am again after a bit of an unscheduled break.
Don’t really know WHY I have taken a break from here…
Focused on DOING the job, a lot lately. In fact I think I’ve been – and continue to be – a bit obsessive about work.
I have worked out, that in some ways I prefer [...]

This blog helps!

This opportunity to articulate my feelings really helps me to discharge the tension associated with my job stress.
This morning I went out for breakfast, with a friend who used to rent a room from me. She talked about her (relatively new) job, to which she has lured a colleague from her/their previous workplace. She describes [...]

5 hours later

Hi again. Still obsessing about work (see post below!).
Earlier, I wondered about whether I like my job – as I always claim – or whether what I like is the ‘idea’ of it… I have realised that I do like my job, whenever I can “just do it” (quoting Nike).
The times when I don’t like [...]

Back again

Hi. Nearly 2 weeks since I last posted. Been busy but certainly have lots of things I need -or want- to articulate.
1. Mulling over my difficult (16 yo) student… trying to just keep a lid on my reactive responses, until Wednesday, when I am going to a presentation about dealing with challenging behaviours. Hope to [...]

More Self-Assessment

Further to the analysis I began making below, about my work, there are a couple of issues I want to explore further, in writing, here. One is the issue of CONTROL. And the other is the issue of WHY do I care this much – enough to be spending my weekend obsessing about how to [...]

What do we need?

In response to my previous two posts, and the thoughts that arose after making them, I feel now that I should itemise what I think my work process SHOULD be like. I am NOT talking about pie-in-the-sky idealism – even though I have just viewed a Powerpoint of what Google’s offices in Zurich look like………..
I [...]

Angry

I find myself so angry at the moment. Today I went in to work in a perfectly good mood, ready to accomplish things. Time was wasted waiting for latecomers to arrive. It’s all very well to think that one could start on time, but every single person who arrives late will expect or require everything to [...]

Another absence…

Hi. Been ‘absent’ for a while. Been too busy just getting on with working and living, to document it. Also had a BIG whinge session at work with my managers…so had less need to voice it all, here.
I have been trying a new (to me) strategy of whole class-work, rather than individual work, and  it [...]

New Enthusiasm

Ah, the relief of having a good whinge and not being censured for it…at least I don’t THINK I’m censured (or thought ‘less of’) for it…
Anyway, I had a meeting with my managers and one of my peers, and aired a lot of frustrations about how hard the job is. And it helped. At least [...]