Torn between two jobs, feeling like a fool.....

The next new thing, shower phones!!!

I spoke to Deb and didn't notice an accent at all! What are you all talking about?

Well - late here - but finally caught up with the news! Congrats!

Nice in Sin City for a holiday this time of year. And your birfday approaches

How's the new job working out, Deb?

I saw you post on another thread, started thinking about time differences, started thinking about time of day people post, starting thinking about work hours, started thinking about work, started thinking about your work, started thinking about your new job and ended up remembering this thread. Scary ain't it?

Nah. Not scary at all. It is one of the features of the human brain I most enjoy!


I am enjoying the walk very much, though I may have overdone it a bit, cos I am suddenly very sore.


I like some of the people quite a lot, I think. All are certainly very professional and committed.

I miss the particular brand of intellectual liveliness and humour where I came from, but it is always hard being new, eh?


Few clients, as yet, because the program I comprise was in abeyance for over a year. I expect a flood soon, so I suspect I shall soon be back to my old, frazzled and exhausted self, although I daare to hope not.

At present am exhusted only by getting used to so much exercise, and looking thinner and very well, I am told!

Hmmm what about you have you forgotten?

so wow!! hot tamale

Sounds... er.... kinda good, kinda ok? I think that's about right for a big change.

I remember when I made a job change after 12+ years. I went from knowing the inside inside-out to not having a clue who the players were, what the politics were and whether or not I belonged. It was a rough first year.

Indeed.

And going from a lynch pin, who was either very close to everyone, or who had worked out a reasonable accommodation with a couple of folk to "who knows what they think of me?"

I tend to be very honest and frank, too, and to say what I think, which is fine when everyone knows you, but needs to be tempered with new people until you work out what's what.

The lynch pin thing will happen in good time. Getting more clients will be a good thing. Staying busy with work helps avoid the b.s. going on around you.

It's interesting to me how generally bright people can be so different in different batches, different environments. One or more creative minds can change a lot of social chemistry, or be shut down by general (erm) rigidity. Or not. It is fascinating to see group shifting with introduction of new forces.

dlowan
Our dlowan is not genetically designed to fail in making herself welcome and loved in her new environment. But only if she behaves and hides the fact that she is a king-size smoking wabbit.

BBB :wink:

Yep. And there is always some pain and discomfort for the new group.

As well as for the old. My leaving has, of course, affected the culture in the old group, and that is causing some discomfort there, and possibly some comfort!

Do you find the daily walks are helping with your energy levels?

They were, but I may have overdone it a wee tad not building up slowly enough cos I've suddenly gone a bit floppy.

But also, I was aching and feverish, so I think I was fighting off a bit of a virus.

Hopefully Monday will bring vim and vigour with it again!

During your enforced down time you might have a little talk with your immune system about speedy response to alien invasion.

Oy veh!

Here be a new thing to come to terms with.



Truly, I thought my working life had allowed me to deal with the worst that humans can do to each other.


But here, when I am staffing the intake function, there be ongoing wee babes who have been hurt and even killed from time to time.


Now, I have dealt with this before, but not constantly.

Well, it is not constant now, and I do not have to investigate it meself.


But the piccies in the mind are not pretty.


Ah well, the defences shall rise.

I think the walking is helping, although, mind you, the middle of the city in rush hour may not mean that I am imbibing the most healthful of air! And imbibe of the air I do, and a lot of it.

I'm sorry about what you deal with on intake - that it happens, I mean, and then that you are involved..

Baby batterers. Ugh.

I understand a high percentage of these creeps were abused themselves as children.

Ugh.

They are pretty tragic people, when you get up close and personal.


It is infinitely sad.


So many of the babes have healed and halfhealed fractures, and evidence of prior assault in their weeny brains.

It is hard to think of them in their cribs, in pain, with nobody to help but those who also hurt. And nobody those who also hurt feel they can call on to help...

But hey, the world is full of suffering, no?