Employment Assessment: 6 Months

This is a guest article by MG

As you will likely have cottoned on to from the title of this piece, I have now been employed at Furness College since September. That's 6 months! I'm not sure if time has flown by or just passed normally, but what I do know, is that I am quickly becoming embedded in the College's culture and after seemingly passing through the probationary period I was set initially, here to stay for the forseeable future.

So what do I think of work? Well, it poses a lot of interesting avenues to wander down. Time sapping? Mentally draining? Rewarding? Perhaps I'm not so sure what to make of it and thus require more time to make a more reasoned assessment. Sometimes I seem to be in everybody's good books, sometimes not. Sometimes I feel happy with my work, sometimes significantly in the wrong; sometimes mythed, sometimes vindicated. Its an odd mix. What differs from what I do now and what I have done academically in the past is that I can only create part of the picture towards achieving success as there's a certain reliance on others to assist me with what is, in essence, a near impossible puzzle to ever complete. It is nearly impossible to achieve 100%... Now there is a parallel.

So if I need more time to make reasoned judgement, what does the current scenario represent? Well, I've still got a multitude of holidays to take, I'm looking forward to Youth Club events, the World Cup is forthcoming (with England currently second favourites) and the summer should provide plentiful opportunities for excursions, activities and the like. But all of this is external to the workplace. In it, I've got a new curriculum to assist sorting and the new year's worth of enrolment forms to take and put on, in addition to all of the other tasks that are usually thrown at us. It is a struggle to catch everything at the best of times - I reckon there may be a reliance on the organisation's flexitime system to help fit everything in! But above all, I can't see or envisage anything that is making me less than happy at this stage, and long may this continue

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