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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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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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I am so happy for you.... I know what it is like to look for a job without so much as a thank you for filling out the application....
I dont have "the corporate image" and that being the case i am told constantly that there are no positions while the manager is leaning on the help wanted sign.
Good luck.....
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Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Congratulations NW, I am so happy for you. I know about being disabled and how hard it is to cope. Now dont march too much and find out you cant make it to work.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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"Weeeeee!!!" The kid inside of me feels like turning a cartwheel for you NW but the old guy on the outside would die! I can feel your happiness shinning through like a ray of sunshine. Congratulations!
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Congratulations and hugs.
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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I'm so very pleased for you, NIck -- good luck!
David
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Wonderful news! Dispel all fears: "You can do it, Duffy!"
Watch me doing virtual cartwheels - 'cos they're the only kind of cartwheels you'll ever see me do, as you very well know!
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Great news indeed!! Congratulations and good luck, NW!
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Congratulations Nick, I am really pleased for you.
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