A tale of two Job Centres.
A tale of two Job Centres or: How going back to my moral purpose has reinvigorated my outlook. I've never made much of a secret how much I love my job. I'm well aware of how insufferable I can be in that regard. However, just coming into lockdown back in March this passion was starting to become unfocused. Reaching a point in my career were the next steps seemed a bit vague, trying to map this out took up a lot of my thinking. To the extent that some other areas of my work became perfunctory. I knew it: I knew it was wrong and I knew this was draining me. Over the summer I was fortunate enough to be able to spend sometime reflecting on my vision and values: what is actually important to me? Ultimately, what am I in all this for? It was this thinking that took me back to two job centre visits in 2012 when I was signing on. In that summer, I had arrived back in England after spending a few years teaching English in Korea. With no job lined up, I signed on at Brombrough job centr...