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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Thank God It's Not Forever

My wee blog will be 10 years old next month. This means that it has also been just over 10 years since I completed my first degree. That means it's been 10 years of working in, mostly, shitty jobs. When I worked in the 216 shop I always had plenty to rant about. Mum would pick me up from work each evening waiting for the next installment of drama like it was a soap opera. I really do try to stay positive for as long as possible in the work place but it seems that once I reach a certain point, that's it. I am nearing that point with my current job, although I feel more hopeful that things could improve with a bit of communication. I used to have my fantasises of travel to get me through the tough days. Now I have the counselling degree to remind me that I won't have to endure this forever.

My biggest problem at work has always been my desire to work to the best of my ability and my resentment at everyone else who doesn't. It's completely ridiculous considering that I am probably always the employee who least agrees with what the company is doing, and yet I still bust my balls and give them value for money. Ah, but my life is always so full of contradictions so why should work be any different?

I am due a little holiday. I know I am because I can feel the stagnation. Only a month to go and the Lovely Mel, Ziggy and I will be heading on our road trip. Hooray for friends like Mel who don't need hotels, sun, sea and sand. Hooray for friends that don't mind roughing it so your dog can come along. Hooray for Ireland having so much unexplored terrain for me. Hooray for getting the fuck out of Ballymena! I am pretty sure that we will be taking the pixie trails which will involve some tree climbing, sheugh leaping and poking mud with sticks. My favourite things :)

4 comments:

Rob Z Tobor said...

10 Years of blogging in the blogging world is a long time Miss Hannah . . . . Well done indeed. I hope that holiday goes to plan I suspect Ziggy will run off with the mud poking stick.

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hootchinhannah said...

!0 years of anything is a long time. Oh trusty, faithful blog who remembers the stuff that I am a bit hazy about. Ziggy does like sticks very much and will probably try to steal my mud poking stick. This is where Mel's role is crucial, distracting Ziggy just long enough for me to get a good poke at the mud. That's what friends are for :)

Leitrim aunt said...

If you get anywhere near here on your travels it would be lovely to see you xxx