It’s been a while. Life has been busy, although there isn’t really much to talk about. Just the every day trappings of life. Work has been good; things have been picking up and I actually have tasks and files to work on now, which is a nice switch from having to organize my email in-box. Plus, I just spent the last two days on a training course entitled Leadership and Management Skills: A Program for Women. I chose it myself, because I suspected that I would be far more comfortable taking such a course (given my entire lack of leadership and management skills) than I would be with a “regular” one, surrounded by middle aged men who’d been with the government 25 years or some such thing.

It was really well done, and I discovered a lot about myself – particularly the fact that I have a lot of skills I need to develop before I’m ready to take on that level of responsibility. But that’s no big shock to me at all. Plus I discovered that my “personality type” at work is entirely different from my personality type in the rest of my life. Almost the opposite in a lot of ways: I’m more analytical, all about the problem solving and the facts and knowledge at work, while generally in the rest of my life I’m about feeling and relationships and empathy (and hearts and flowers and cute birdies chirping, hahahaha, vomit). It’s strange how a person can divide themselves up like that. I need to bring a bit of my work personality home with me, I think.

It’s hard to be patient about things that could conceivably have a gigantic impact on your life. My girlfriend had managed to get an interview for an apprenticeship program at one of the federal government departments

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[the feds are big on Apprenticeship programs these days, as part of their "strategic renewal" and recruitment and retention strategies. Personally, while I can appreciate that apprenticeship program bring my generation into the government a little more easier than if they did not exist, and hey, appointment without compeition at the end of it is fabulous, the existence of these program kind of implies that they don't think we have what it takes to learn about and do the job well. They don't trust us to navigate that on our own, like they did. Argh.]
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Well, Friday afternoon she received a message from said government department’s HR person, asking her to call them back, that they “hope[d] to hear from [her] soon”. I hate when you get a message and you have no bloody idea what it’s about. I know that professional ettiquette really prevents her from saying, but now we’re both all paranoid about the possibility of them canceling the competition altogether. This job is the only decent lead she’s gotten here.

gah!