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@Sgt Pepper wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
Well, I always wanted to be a teacher but after 6 months doing a PGCE and teaching in schools, I bailed out realising that I didn’t actually like kids.
So what I do now, which is closely related, keeps me happy.
A very wise decision :wink:
Actually, the staff room was worse, lol
a clean slate .. said FAR too much there.
boredom.. B’dum B’dum..
I’m not sure what my clean slate would be, but i know for sure whatever it was I would be working for myself. possibly interior design….something creative anway.
I am happy to say that I did precisely that – worked hard (hating every minute of it), jacked it in, moved to France and teach/coach swimming. A little like what Sgt said – I reckon a lot of sportspeeps always ‘wish’ – so, what I couldn’t have, through illness, I have gained from teaching/coaching – and, I do wake up with a smile on my face :D
@anc wrote:
I am happy to say that I did precisely that – worked hard (hating every minute of it), jacked it in, moved to France and teach/coach swimming. A little like what Sgt said – I reckon a lot of sportspeeps always ‘wish’ – so, what I couldn’t have, through illness, I have gained from teaching/coaching – and, I do wake up with a smile on my face :D
That has brought a little ray of sunshine to my life. Good on you.
8)
Having asked the question I thought I’d better answer it too! :lol:
I left school knowing exactly what I wanted to do but quickly realised that I didn’t have the qualifications (so much for school career guidance!) and settled into a clerical job. Then a company-wide initiative meant that I found myself doing the job I had wanted! I loved it and built a career, tried out different roles, slowly climbed the corporate ladder. After 24 years I found myself in upper middle management, vying for the senior roles and as far away from the original job as I could possibly be. I still loved my job as it meant dealing with people and helping others be the best that they could be, and yes I loved the money and the company car and the holidays and so on. However I hated the politics, the higher you get up the ladder the more politics and back stabbing there is.
After a career spanning 24 years, ill health forced a radical change of circumstances and I lost the career, the money, etc. Not quite wiping the slate clean but not far off. It made me really look at who I was and what was important to me and it wasn’t the material things. I realised how much we define ourselves and others by the jobs that we do…take away the job and who are you? So I went on a journey of self-discovery.
And now here I am today doing something completely different, something I never in a million years imagined I would do. I’m not quite sure how I ended up where I am but it’s where I’m meant to be, for the moment anyway. I love my shop, the people that I meet and try to help find their way, the stories and the tears and the laughter we share, the courses we run where we watch people coming in as closed buds and watch them slowly blossoming. As many of my customers say, it’s not just a shop, it’s so much more than that.
What would I do if I was given a clean slate?
Open another shop but maybe in another part of the country. :DProbably build villages with the SOS family in Tlokweng Botswana.
Or paint on canvas for a living and go on that Channel 4 show they used to have.. watercolour challenge.
Panda, let’s wipe the slate clean…and be nice to each other.
I was enjoying myself earlier on this evening in the park, when I came across this:
@terry wrote:
Panda, let’s wipe the slate clean…and be nice to each other.
Well, I was gobsmacked!
Literally, as you can see!
I’m in Emergency Ward 10 of the Panda Healthcare Trust.
If you visit me, Terry, plz bring some grapes. :wink:
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