Okay okay, so I’ve been a lil busy – I got my voluntary redundancy, got two job offers in my last week after a lot of effort and fretting, chose the one that paid much less but leads to greater job satisfaction I hope i.e. a move out from IT focus and into the people and communications side.
What a challenge! – taking the hard edge off the culture in a logistics company so it can blossom into a beautiful place to work, weather the storms and grow grow grow as it rightly should. It’s great because I get to use my cognitive psychology, 6th sense for usability, writing skills, commercial sensibilities etc. to look at moulding how a whole organisation behaves. Last week I went on two fantastic courses – 1) Working with senior leaders to engage staff and build trust, and 2) Communicating change.
In the last 3 months I have lived in three different places – Riseley with Timi, moved to Bournemouth hoping to find work by the sea (can I call it moved as spent all my time with Mark), lived with Mark in Purley but it was too much of a commute to the new job (often 2 hours by train or sat on the M25 – gawd, I hate motorways and they seem to hate me too!) so I’m now in Bracknell and enjoy driving through Great Windsor Park to work. Now I dodge badgers instead of drivers asleep at the wheel.
Bracknell is finally starting to feel like home but all this upheaval is pushing me over the edge. If my sofa doesn’t finally get delivered this Friday I will have to find some railings to chain myself to in protest.
Not satisfied with changing job, living in four places, buying a flat in Bournemouth, having a heart operation, having a myomectomy with 6 weeks recovery, falling in love (yes Mark featured heavily above) all in one year - I also nipped to Poland to buy some land as an investment with my redundancy money, learnt about running a commercially successful small hotel on a course in Florida, had a Knowledge Management conference in Berlin with Mars, had a great time in Cuba, went wild in Mallorca with Ewa, spent a week on the Amalfi coast in Italy and had a weekend in Warsaw with friends.
No wonder I’m exhausted. I am getting wiser though. I ditched the evening course in counselling realising a new job was going to be all absorbing for the first few months and it certainly is.
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