Hearts

There’s been a lot going on with mine recently; in that my heart just isn’t in my job anymore.
I’ve been pushing myself to do more to make it work, especially at my new place, but spending more money on courses to add more pressure to what I already do clearly isn’t the answer.

On Saturday, what was meant to be coffee and a catch up with a former boss and his wife, led me to nominating myself for a vacancy they had.
You might remember blips from when I worked in Preston (on the Docklands). I’d not been there long when I had my accident, so although they kept my job open for me, after 6 months they had no choice but to take someone else on (I was off 10 months in total).
The bosses wife always said she would get me back the first chance she got and made me promise to keep in touch, which we have done.

I found out they were looking for an assistant Clinic manager, so I asked if they might consider me. They jumped at the chance! They’ve offered me a full time position, with all the associated benefits of employment; something I’ve not had for many years.
I’ll be working alongside Linda to learn on the job, but they are also going to pay for me to do a Practice Managers course too. It’s a multi taskers, OCD nerds dream of a job so I won’t be cooped up in an office all day, there’s much to be done in and around the place too.

Practice Manager roles are difficult to land, as they all require you to be experienced. How can you gain experience without doing the job?? So I feel privileged that this opportunity has been offered up.

The skills I have now are never lost, so I think it’s good to have them to fall back on if I ever needed to. We’ve even said if any of the clinical staff are off sick, I can cover for them rather than cancelling the session.

My main place of work has just been sold as the boss wants to retire, so I’ve been on the lookout for something else for a while as there’s no guarantee the new owners will keep any of us on.
When I handed in my notice today, he was silent and hasn’t spoken to me since. It could prove to be a long month!

My other boss (at the fancy place) spent over an hour on the phone, refusing to accept my resignation. Thankfully, I asked him to call after my weigh in (an amazing 4.5lbs off this week, despite the food mountain yesterday!)
It’s hugely flattering that he values me so highly and is seemingly willing to move mountains to keep me, but he totally missed the point that I am not happy in my clinical role anymore.
I was starving, so agreed to ‘sleep on it’ and let him know tomorrow what I want to do, just to get him off the phone!!
Had he been listening, (or read my email properly) he would have known I have already accepted the offer. :-/

Todays blip is my valentines card from Mr A.

DQ x