Never go back?

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I just got the offer to do my old job again for a couple of months. So free ILE for me, yay!

But, that aside should you go back? any going going back stories?

james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but at least I can say that I'm a librarian again.

james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i went back to the same job 3 separate times. it was sheerly out of laziness. it got progressively worse (for both of us.) i was fired the third time. for the best, really.

jess, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"out of laziness" = jel = guilty as charged.

james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Going back as freelancer - ie, more money for fewer hours = major classic.

But otherwise, if there isn't a vast improvement in either pay or hours... dunno.

kate, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh few hours definetely.

(also experimenting with fonts in the name field is a pain! :(...)

james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would never go back. I will plod ahead and being in God's hands I will be fine.(I know this for a fact) Gale

Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...
woah! coming up to a year!

Have come to realise that I really don't mind working in a library, and will sign a contract to stay. However, my lack of ambition depresses me and not having an information management MA is annoying, even though I think I'm qualified and have an MA in a related area.


Oh, boo, gotta make a plan.

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 17 October 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

However, my lack of ambition depresses me and not
having an information management MA is annoying, even though I think I'm qualified and have an MA in a related area.

Hey, like me. ;-) But I just don't want to deal with grad school again, really, and as it is I'm starting to ponder various options elsewhere...maybe.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

It depends on the job and the people there. I've been sent back to worksites where I previously temped and for the most part was content. And it's an ego boost...they know how you work and are willing to have you back anyways!

j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I worked at a library for a while and came back in to work on holidays from school. Pure laziness, perhaps. But I got to wear whatever I wanted and listen to my walk-man the whole time.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah! same here!

hey Ned, what are these options you are pondering? (just being nosey!)

don't think I could stand going back to uni again!

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Ned, what are these options you are pondering? (just being nosey!)

Well, this is all very vague -- my manager just gave his notice recently and I'm thinking of applying for the job, though I'm not counting on getting it. If I don't get it, and since I'm really grinding my wheels here at present otherwise (Reserves work is now down to a fine art and there's not much else to immediately change or revise if the budgets don't suddenly improve), I'll probably start looking for other work around and about later in the academic year, both on campus and off. I'd like to see what more I can do with music writing and writing in particular, and have talked with a few folks about that, and am currently thinking of doing more writing for a local publication, as well as starting seriously to look into getting some fiction published. So it's a bit of a ferment at present, and combined with some other private matters, I've had to do some fairly heavy thinking. I'm looking forward to the Chameleons next week because among many other things it'll just be a pleasure to go see a great band get some energy out, and I think I need that release! Though at the same time Mark Burgess will doubtless (and deservedly so) make reference to that creeping horror of a war that seems inevitable now over in Iraq, which is a situation that has left me completely paralyzed with worry more than once this year already. Mm...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)


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