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I had a New Year's Resolution to blog every week... well, the best intentions sometimes need practice! I had one of the infections that's going the rounds, like a very bad cold but over in about 48 hours. It set me back right at the beginning of the year and I haven't called in since. :-( There isn't much to say really... cold, wet January, with flooding in Gloucestershire just as there was last summer, though it doesn't look as though it will get as deep. Here in the Vale of York, the ground is saturated but I'm quite excited: tomorrow's forecast is for 13 Celcius - the highest it's been for months! Well, today has been a rotten day at work. I'm struggling with a new element that was introduced to my job during the summer. I'm a Word Processor Operator/Admin Assistant but, in the interests of fair pay, jobs have been evaluated and some elements moved around. It hasn't affected my post much financially (some people have taken pay cuts of thousands of pounds or even found themselves no longer wanted, whilst others have benefitted financially) but I have been landed with the necessity of learning aspects of Human Resources work. My view on this is that if I had known what was coming I would never have applied for the job, as it's completely alien to me. Not only does it not play to my strengths, it seems to have found a complete blind spot, comparable to Maths or Physics, but possibly worse than Maths, which I have found makes sense if I take enough time about it. It took me most of the day to do a piece of work that should take under an hour - what a waste of both my time and my employers' time & money! Yet I have to do it because it's now part of my job. I hope they give future WP Operators an aptitude test for this kind of work before appointing them. Incidentally my colleague appears to have taken to it with no trouble! And yes, I've had several months of training, though it felt, and still feels, as though it's in a foreign language. There are still blessings in it: I'm earning, which helps the family, I'm gaining experience and it adds enough time tension to my week to keep me on the move and less susceptible to depression. I also have enough time when I don't have to be at work and the balance suits me fine: just two days at work and five at home! I tell myself that a lot of people have far worse, and that I have to keep praying about it, that it's good for me not to be good at it (keeps me humble, LOL!). that I am learning and I can do it if I keep on long enough... Oh well, just one more day and it's the weekend and maybe next week the perfect job will be advertised! |
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