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Week 03/52
After giving myself a couple of weeks just to immerse myself in the new job I worked a bit harder this week to reinstate a few habits and plans to protect my wellbeing a bit this time around. This feels doubly important as the aftermath of my recent bout of Covid has been especially unpleasant…
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Week 02/52
I really am enjoying the honeymoon period of this new job. Day by day I can feel the rust getting shaken off – not just from the sabbatical but also shaking off some of those consultant perspectives and letting my public servant instincts reassert themselves. It is an interesting time to join this organisation –…
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Week 01/52
So I am back. 210 days later I fired up my new Windows laptop, opened Teams, waited for the fan to calm down and dived back in. My start was delayed a week by a particularly nasty bout of Covid which I suspect has made this re-entry a bit tougher physically but mentally I’ve really…
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Call it a comeback
Spring has sprung and I have crawled out of my cave after my hibernation, stretched, squinted at the sun, taken a deep breath and decided I am ready to face the world again. My sabbatical lasted a little longer than planned due to reasons but actually that extra time and the issues that caused it…
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Four years later #jobnote
Four years in one place is a long time for me – even if six months of this was on a career break (one where I was almost always intending to return at the end of things). This is mainly a reminiscence about the tent-pole projects during my time with Notbinary/Foundry4. Alongside this work there…
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