Welcome to December, 2011!
It’s been a funny old year. My life has been very calm and collected and my world has been very settled yet there is nothing of note that I have done that is particulary significant!
I think it was John Lennon who may have said, “life is what happens to you while you are making other plans”, and I guess that is very true in my case in 2011.
I did think about doing things that were worthy but every time a seed for doing something of consequence planted itself in the back of my mind it never seemed to grow and was flushed down the toilet of my brain where all the rest of my unachievable goals reside.
No matter. These things happen to you and quiet years for me are the exception not the norm.
I have decided that on the workfront 2012 will be a make or break year for me. I need to do something that will help me find a new job in the new year.
Australia Post has been good to me in a lot of ways and despite the excrement I often throw at it, I have been proud to work for an iconic company like AP.
Unfortunately, the era of the posted letter is drawing to an end and I can see massive changes in the way mail is delivered in the not to distant future and that will involve changes in the way the workforce is structured. I have the feeling I won’t like the end result of such restructuring.
Working as a mail officer has never been fun but it has been bearable for most of the time but the boredom is starting to kill me.
I also feel that the conservative nature of the management structure will conspire in the future to make life much more difficult for the average punter just trying to make a quid to make ends meet.
So, as I said, it’s make or break in 2012. If I can’t find the courage to get out of my institutionalised state of mind, be a bit more adventurous and do something else for a living then I’m afraid I will have to go down with the ship and accept the consequences of my inactivity and timidity.
If I am still with AP in 2013 that may be it for me and I will have to suffer whatever slings and arrows are thrown at me by the corporation.
I’m too proud to let myself suffer at the hands of the fabricators and fools who will control my destiny if I stay.
Things are looking up in other areas though.
I have two overseas trips planned, albeit only to New Zealand and Fiji but they will break the cycle of boredom that generally accentuates life and give me the break I need from everyday living.
New Zealand will just be a holiday with Linda’s relatives in Auckland and my other trip later in the year will be to my nephew’s wedding.
So that is a good start for planning a year before it arrives and there are plenty of blanks left for me to fill in should I so desire.
The world is full of life and fun and wasting it by spending most of your days in a place that continually causes you to shed brain cells is not something anyone should be sentenced to for life.
Now I have to turn my attention to more pressing problems and trees which are a little too close to our telephone line and need trimming. My major task for the morning.
After that a short walk is perhaps on the cards before the inexorable descent to the horrors of the mail centre for another day. I’m sure I will survive. Have a good day.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 