RE: Ambitions As A Child??????

My ambitions have changed or evolved as I have achieved or failed to achieve them. Now, it might sound corny but my main ambition in life is still to be happy. To start with I wanted to join the RAF but a lack of application and aptitude put paid to that. I then spent thirteen years working as a warehouseman/driver. It was an easy job with plenty of variety, but I never exercised the desire to stretch myself, at least not for a while. For years I’d had a nagging feeling that I wanted to do domething to help people and this finally coalesced into the decision to go to nursing college. I had at last found something I wanted to do, and something I was good at, really good at. I qualified and worked particularly in surgery and care of the elderly and terminally ill. Not wishing to be tied to a contract so I could move around and gain more experience saw me spending more and more of my time working with children with disabilities. I had found my working ‘home.’ This I loved and worked as a team leader in a unit for adults with extreme challenging behaviuor and as officer in charge of a respite unit for children with learning disabilities. My only ambition then was to work in that field till I retired.

Then health problems intervened and I haven’t worked for several years and am largely viewed as unemployable now, at the age of 41. I suppose what I’m trying to say is to go for your ambitions while you can, the chance may slip away sooner than you think.

My ambitions now are smaller, but still significant to me. This week’s is to walk around Sainsbury’s without falling over.

Comet, what do you intend to do now?

Regards,

kev35

RE: Go On….Ask Me Anything!

SOC

“So! what is the meaning of life??
Death.”

This is probably going to sound daft but I think you may be right. In a strange way I think death is what we all strive for. We fight it, often with almost superhuman efforts but it is the one thing we all have in common. I don’t know whether there is anything beyond this life, personally I doubt it. Perhaps I worked around death for too long as even now it fascinates me. I can honestly say it’s the one thing in life I am not afraid of.

What do you think Saab?

Regards,

kev35

RE: Firefighters strike – a review.

I think what Mongu says is right to an extent. Where else can you sleep through the majority of the night shifts you ‘work’. I think they may be deserving of a rise but it appears this modernisation is long overdue. The ludicrous reasons for not sharing control rooms with other emergency services just beggar belief. Gilchrist has really shot hisself in the foot due to his attempts to politicise the dispute. The other trade unions, while supporting the firefighters dispute seem less eager to support Gilchrist’s other agenda of replacing ‘new labour with real labour.’ Perhaps that is why the strike due for wednesday has been suspended?

Regards,

kev35

RE: Extended break

Ad0nis.

That’s some break! Hope you have a good time.

kev35