Yesterday I did my first shift of volunteering work. It was only for 2hrs 30mins but it was a reminder of what starting a new job feels like. A reminder of how I don’t enjoy the new kid feeling. Fortunately the staff were kind and friendly, which made me feel at ease. I was working on reception which reminded me of my Mum, when she worked A&E (accident and emergency) reception at a hospital. Luckily my patrons were polite. patient and all smiles. Even if the smiles were saying “do you know what you are doing?”<\/p>\n
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One major frustration for me, is that PD has made my handwriting for the most part illegible. There wasn’t much I had to write down, but what I needed to was not great. Not having a computer login (and maybe I won’t given one) I couldn’t type what had written – so I could refer back if anyone asks me later. With GDPR I need to take care with what and where I write too. I shouldn’t be writing down names and saving them on a computer. I only took one telephone message but fortunately I could read most back and remember enough to pass the message on. This highlights one of my concerns, lots of employers put in their vacancy adverts “fast paced working environment”. I think now even less I would not survive in such an environment.<\/p>\n
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While the job market isn’t great and I am finding more reasons employment is going to be challenging. The volunteering is good to get me out if the house, meeting people and exercising physically and mentally.\u00a0 I need to bring in some revenue. I have an idea and if it works I’m sure you will hear about it.<\/p>\n
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Here we are, one week after being told that the team had agreed to give me surgery. How does that make me feel? Not massively anything but I am trying not to over think it. When the time comes and it is all I can do, or after when all I can do is rest I will probably feel more uncomfortable. For now, just focus on the positive and should it give a better future.<\/p>\n
The hole they will make is small and if it is fitted well I don’t think I will really notice. The battery pack in my chest will be a bit unsettling but I think of all the people with pins and plates in their bodies so I will be fine.<\/p>\n
I think I am most nervous about when they administer the anesthetic and waking up – what will be sticking in or out of me eg an IV. Part of me wants to know so I can prepare, part of me says its best not to know. I tell myself these concerns are over the most routine part so I have little to worry about. I have had a phobia over giving blood (tests) for a number of years but I have given a few samples lately, so I am sure I will be fine.<\/p>\n
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Web site update<\/strong>: If anyone is interested, I have added a RSS feed to the Movers and Shakers podcast. I must admit I haven’t listened to it recently but it I did enjoy it and it does have good content from real PD people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I did my first shift of volunteering work. It was only for 2hrs 30mins but it was a reminder of what starting a new job feels like. A reminder of how I don’t enjoy the new kid feeling. Fortunately the staff were kind and friendly, which made me feel at ease. I was workingContinue reading Work and emotional feedback<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[2,3,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.mengosh.link\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}