Author: Olivia

I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I need to vent before I explode. My boss has two young kids that are absolutely feral. They do not listen to anyone, especially not her. Whenever school is out, or she can't find a babysitter, or one of them has an appointment (etc etc) she will bring one or both of them to work with her. They act like typical poorly behaved children; screaming and fighting with each other, grabbing things they shouldn't be touching and running off with them, making huge messes that their mom rarely makes them clean up. It would be bad enough if we worked in an office setting, but we do not. We work with sharp objects and live animals that are either terrified of the kids, want to attack them, or are extremely easily distracted by them. Luckily no harm…

I have previously posted in here about how pointless I was finding the work I was doing, and how much I resented having to pretend to care. Well, I quit the job – and the industry – and went on a four-month hiatus to conduct some soul-searching. I half-heartedly looked for things to apply for during this whole time, but only one role actually jumped out as being something I was both interested in and potentially qualified for. I applied, and lo and behold, got the job! I started about three weeks ago, so it’s early days, but so far I have found it to be everything I had been searching for. Without going into too much detail, the job is in the police, in a public service role, working on a project to implement some important but controversial reforms. The work I do on this project will actually change…