2017
Hello again. I've decided to resurrect my daily blog after taking a year off. I, like a lot of people, am happy to see the back of 2016 but I can't help but feel it would have been a much more interesting year to cover in its entirety than 2015. Anyway, I'd like to write more and know that I'm strangely motivated by the arbitrary goal of 365 consecutive blogs. I can't guarantee a word count but will at least try to string some sentences together.
All things considered, it's a good policy to not reveal too much of yourself on the internet. But I work for a bookmaker somewhere in the Greater London area. Yesterday on Facebook, I discussed whether you could describe continuing to turn up and do a job you're unsuited to as an achievement. As I was verbally abused at the close of play today by a punter for an entirely imagined transgression, I thought about it some more. I had shown up at another shop on New Year's Day, opened it, closed it, worked alone for hours in between before being verbally abused by an idiot.
I often dismiss a lot of my achievements on the basis that anyone could do them. I don't think it's true that "anyone" could have done what I did today. It's a role that uses up a lot of my physical and mental energy and one that no-one would really choose to do. Anyway I'm very rusty and I've forgotten the point that I was trying to make. Basically that there are times that I ought to be kinder to myself and that I stand united with people doing rubbish jobs everywhere. Happy New Year.
All things considered, it's a good policy to not reveal too much of yourself on the internet. But I work for a bookmaker somewhere in the Greater London area. Yesterday on Facebook, I discussed whether you could describe continuing to turn up and do a job you're unsuited to as an achievement. As I was verbally abused at the close of play today by a punter for an entirely imagined transgression, I thought about it some more. I had shown up at another shop on New Year's Day, opened it, closed it, worked alone for hours in between before being verbally abused by an idiot.
I often dismiss a lot of my achievements on the basis that anyone could do them. I don't think it's true that "anyone" could have done what I did today. It's a role that uses up a lot of my physical and mental energy and one that no-one would really choose to do. Anyway I'm very rusty and I've forgotten the point that I was trying to make. Basically that there are times that I ought to be kinder to myself and that I stand united with people doing rubbish jobs everywhere. Happy New Year.
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