Wednesday, November 23, 2005
"You can't do this, you should be more realistic"
Hi Bloggers, Sorry I haven't written for a few days, I have been feeling not myself and as I told my counsellor I felt very alone in myself and felt bad but am slowly feeling better. You are probably wondering about this title here. It's because I have been feeling that I am going nowhere in achieving my goal of working for Ouch and this is what my Outreach worker Ela keeps telling me every time I tell her I want to work there. She thinks that I wouldn't be able to travel to London each time and that I would be tired after work.
Nothing is impossible in this world and I might find it tiring but there are ways around it. I know I keep going on about this that I would like to work there but it's a place that I would find great to work in.
There are loads of questions and my head is confused with stuff at the moment so I don't know what I think.
Questions like:
Why don't they let me try working there?
Why do I only get few comments on here, do people find my blog boring and they are fed up with me on Ouch and here. ( I know most aren't fed up with me but some are!)
Why do I keep feeling bad and people are not wishing to be friends with me, I'm not all bad!
It's probably because people are making me upset and my loneliness contributes to me feeling awful every day.
Sorry if I feel self indulgent and self pitying, I always like this, it's only sometimes!
You lot are great and you lot are my true mates better than my real friends sometimes! Especially lovely Chris, 'm sorry you have to read about me feeling bad honey, but you make me feel better, and wish I could reward you in some small way to say how much you have helped me to get over things and make me a better person within myself.
Hope all of you are okay!
Nothing is impossible in this world and I might find it tiring but there are ways around it. I know I keep going on about this that I would like to work there but it's a place that I would find great to work in.
There are loads of questions and my head is confused with stuff at the moment so I don't know what I think.
Questions like:
Why don't they let me try working there?
Why do I only get few comments on here, do people find my blog boring and they are fed up with me on Ouch and here. ( I know most aren't fed up with me but some are!)
Why do I keep feeling bad and people are not wishing to be friends with me, I'm not all bad!
It's probably because people are making me upset and my loneliness contributes to me feeling awful every day.
Sorry if I feel self indulgent and self pitying, I always like this, it's only sometimes!
You lot are great and you lot are my true mates better than my real friends sometimes! Especially lovely Chris, 'm sorry you have to read about me feeling bad honey, but you make me feel better, and wish I could reward you in some small way to say how much you have helped me to get over things and make me a better person within myself.
Hope all of you are okay!
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I don't think you should give up on your dream, Katie; many things are possible. However, it is a very specific ambition you have and one that depends not only on the various factors like whether you could work in London etc - most importantly it depends on Ouch being able to employ you.
If, for example, I said I wanted to be your butler, then however good a butler I might be, you couldn't afford to employ me. However, you might keep me in mind as a butler for if you ever became filthy rich.
You need to wait for Ouch to have the need and resources to employ a new person and then you have to hope that you are the best candidate for the particular job they were hoping to fill. It's not that they don't want you, I'm sure, only they can't afford to employ you just now.
Hang in there and hold onto your dream, but in the meantime think about what other ambitions you have and whether there is anything you can do to work towards them.
If, for example, I said I wanted to be your butler, then however good a butler I might be, you couldn't afford to employ me. However, you might keep me in mind as a butler for if you ever became filthy rich.
You need to wait for Ouch to have the need and resources to employ a new person and then you have to hope that you are the best candidate for the particular job they were hoping to fill. It's not that they don't want you, I'm sure, only they can't afford to employ you just now.
Hang in there and hold onto your dream, but in the meantime think about what other ambitions you have and whether there is anything you can do to work towards them.
Hi Katie, come on: "keep your head up!", as we say in Germany. I have read ALL of your blogs, even those you have written before I had ever heard of "blogs" and "blogging". They were very interesting reading. I think you are a very honest person and very straight foreward in what you are writing. That's great. And you get a lot of comments, at least compared to what I get! So, nothing to worry about...
About the possiblity of working for OUCH! I agree to Goldfish, Chris and Mumpy. These days not every company has got enough resources to emply more and more people and no matter how much you would like to work there it might not be possible if they have no vacancies at the moment. Did you ever contact the OUCH! team and asked for a job? Or maybe you could offer to work in a kind of work placement. I am not sure if that is the correct word for it in English. What I mean is offer them to work there for - let's say- six weeks, without payment. It is quite common over here and it is a good opportunity to find out, if a job is really that kind of "dream job" you have imagined it to be. Maybe you do not like it at all! Work placements however do not guarantee that they will employ you afterwards. It is an agreement without any obligations for both parts.
I am sure you will find a worth while occupation. I'll keep my fingers crossed!!
About the possiblity of working for OUCH! I agree to Goldfish, Chris and Mumpy. These days not every company has got enough resources to emply more and more people and no matter how much you would like to work there it might not be possible if they have no vacancies at the moment. Did you ever contact the OUCH! team and asked for a job? Or maybe you could offer to work in a kind of work placement. I am not sure if that is the correct word for it in English. What I mean is offer them to work there for - let's say- six weeks, without payment. It is quite common over here and it is a good opportunity to find out, if a job is really that kind of "dream job" you have imagined it to be. Maybe you do not like it at all! Work placements however do not guarantee that they will employ you afterwards. It is an agreement without any obligations for both parts.
I am sure you will find a worth while occupation. I'll keep my fingers crossed!!
"You can't do it... you should be more realistic" Gawd if I had a few quid for every person who's ever said that to me I'd be weslthy enough not to need to work. I generally tell them, in the politest way possible, to sod off because they've not a clue what it's like to be me. So yes Katie, keep hold of your ambitions...
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Hi Katie,
I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
Hi Katie,
I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
Hi Katie,
I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
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I agree with much that has been said above. Maybe the way forward is to start by writing articles for all the different disability publications there are out there. I don't know if you have any local organisations where you live. If you do they might well have newsletters and the like. It'll all be volunteer work but it's great experience. It can't do any harm to your career to hone your skills writing for things like that. It is all good experience and it will build up your cv. Also you may find your ambitionms change. It can happen. You might decide that you love writing for other publications.
Good luck Katie,
Marmiteboy.
PS I love the new lay out of your blog.
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