This might be a bit of a cheesy blog entry but I’m in a good mood with work today. The most difficult project I’ve had to deal with in my 5.5 years here is almost cracked and it feels as close to code-breaking as I’m ever going to get.
For the best part of the month I’ve been frustratingly unbusy work, waiting around for information from field offices on four major projects. Finally two of the chunks came in and this week has been manic trying to catch up. It’s cool though because now I’m into the stage of talking to people from all kinds of places, asking hundreds of questions and trying to understand every last detail about things that are happening very far away. Most of my day is spent emailing people I’ve never met. Some of them are serious and make me feel I’m nagging them and others are gushing and enthusiastic but rushed and under pressure. But the longer I do this job and the more I get to deal with bigger projects, it seems to be that the most gratifying part is not so much getting money in for projects for children, but getting money in so the field staff can deliver them. These people work so damn hard, and when I do get to meet them I’m often surprised to hear a major programme was about to close down because it had no funding. I suppose this is how most jobs work. The immediate satisfaction is from the things you have the closest connection to. For me that’s the field staff ahead of the children. Though of course the kiddos are what it’s all about. And just now one of them is giving it some welly on the singing three desks up from me. It’s not often you see a REAL LIVE CHILD in the London office.
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