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Obviously, I can't actually turn cartwheels, 'cos my back is so trashed that walking is often difficult, but still ...
I've finally got a job!
The past few years have been really difficult. Becoming disabled at Christmas 2003, meaning that I became less and less able to work full-time. Taking sick leave from September 2004 ... taking my employers to the threshold of an Employment Tribunal before they settled with me, and accepting early retirement on a token pension. Learning to live with and manage a chronic condition, which took eighteen months before I started to get a grip on a lifestyle and pain management regime that worked. Finally coming to terms with having been abused as a kid, and coming to terms with being a cripple. And, for the last year, coping with a much-loved aunt who was severely brain-injured a year ago and is only just now able to live on her own again. It has actually been a damn tough time, and I'd never have made it without the support of friends here and elsewhere.
I'd been getting really depressed about jobs - on current pain management I'm well able for work up to around 25 or 30 hours a week, but could never manage anything more than that. And part-time jobs that are worthwhile are damn scarce, even in London. The ones I apply for, I've always got as a far as an interview, but not got the job.
On Weds of last week I had an interview, and on the Friday, I got a call, to say that I'd interviewed really well .... but it was between me and another person, so could I provide additional references? It has been really tense, and I've been getting really wound up. Today I was offered the job by e-mail and have accepted (formal contract to follow by post).
WHEEEE!
Operations Manager for a small Trust that runs a building which houses studios and workshops for around 50 artists (ranging from Fine Art to mosaics, ceramics, cabinet-making, etc). In some ways, this is just about my ideal job (though I'm seriously scared of the whole "going-back-to-work" thing): it involves everything from negotiating contracts and seeking
grant aid to unblocking the toilets and fixing "holes in the roof where the rain gets in".
WHEEEE !
Starting Monday 2nd July - straight after London Pride weekend. I think I'll give stewarding a miss this year (I might go on the march), cos I want to physically as fit as possible for the Monday morning.
NW
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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