I am sure my loyal reader is wondering why I am not blogging at the same rate as I was up until last week. It’s because I am back in the world of work.
Having spent nine glorious months away from working, I have been waiting for a line of work to come along that represented something I actually wanted to do, rather than to flog my guts out doing something I really didn’t want to do.
I am working for all of two days a week now for a well known charity in Warmley. It will not make me rich because in terms of the things in life which really matter I already am.
I will not be sharing anything about my new job in on this blog because it would be inappropriate and wrong, but I will say this: the third sector, the charity sector, in general provides services that I strongly believe should be funded through taxation. The reason why these services are covered by charities is simple. Charity exists to provide the things that the public deems not important enough to be paid for by taxes. This is, in essence, The Big Society that David Cameron talked about and then quietly buried because it was already there. Provision of essential services through charity is not new, it was always there. Cameron was, unknowingly and not without ignorance, knocking on a long open door. Without these charities, people’s lives would be considerable worse and probably unbearable. There is no time for me to philosophise. People need help and now.
In just a few days, I have met some astonishingly kind and generous people whose only motive is to make the lives of people, at home as well as abroad, better.
My line of work is to care for people in this country and it is something to which I am now deeply committed. My eyes have been opened and suddenly, at last, I see a type of vocation opening up before my eyes.
Anyway – off to work now. The weekend starts tomorrow.
