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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
- Ella Fitzgerald.
I’ve always been good at giving up.  First came ballet and horseriding, then meat, and church and God.  At times I’ve given up trying, given up my self respect.  [...]

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It’s been nearly three months since I posted anything on here!  I don’t know where the time went :-\
I’ve been working far too hard, I’ve been promoted, and I’ve been accepted onto a post graduate teaching course.  I’ve (unfortunately) been promoted to Head Bridesmaid for the nightmare wedding of the year ™ – due to [...]

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It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
The other-half had become quite accustomed to me not working. He came home from work to find his dinner on the table, his lunch packed up for work the next day. His washing and ironing was [...]

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I am s l o w l y losing a grip on reality.
I walked out of my job after I saw one too many kids being left with fifteen year old students, with no CRBs, no qualifications, and absolutely no common sense. I saw staff being reduced to tears by a manager [...]

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When I woke up at 5.45am this morning, and hauled my poor ass out of bed – I was kept going by the idea that mid-afternoon I would have finished work, and would be curled up on the sofa with a pitcher of iced-coffee and a box of Green & Blacks chocolates*.
So as you can [...]

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There’s a child in my class who very clearly has behavioural problems. He bites, kicks and pushes the other children, and sticks his tongue out at adults when they speak to him. His mother seems to think this is all perfectly normal behaviour, replying with “Oh, haha, boys will be boys!” whenever anyone [...]

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Muhammad Ali said that children make you want to start life over. That quote sums up exactly how I feel about my new job.. It was a chance to start over, and I certainly feel as though I have and I do, every single day.
I get up at 6am every morning to be [...]

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It took many a shitty job (and ‘career’) for me to realise that I had, naturally, always been right.
When I was about ten years old, after getting past the “I want to do what my Daddy does” stage, I announced to my mother that I wanted to be a teacher. She was horrified. [...]

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It took a while (a long while) to pull myself together after the TDH fiasco. To cut a long story short, he completely shafted me, by stealing my client, and nearly losing me my job. And unsurprisingly, I haven’t spoken to him since (client-stealing-bastard that he is). In an attempt to avoid [...]

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