*Sigh* Yea, I quit my job...the house was really neat and yea, decided to move there...got offered a job with Rivercorp as an administration person part time in their branch office here in Bathurst, so that should be alright. Stuff it, you want to know why I quit?
As some might know, I'm a certified Advance Life Support person, that does not mean much, only that I can administer oxygen and all that, as I said in one of my last posts. Anyway, I was on call one week with a mate of mine, and we were out doing a duty. When I got back in, Gail (the Office Manager) and Shane (the Bursar) called me into Shane's office, and for 50 minutes, while my bud was sitting outside, they lamblasted me for not being at work and giving them adequate notice that I'm not going to be there...to cut a long story short, they said that even though I was called 5 minutes before I was supposed to be at work, they still wanted me to be there working for them, and not to treat them as "second class employers; we want to be treated as your first employer". I'm gone. Stuff that sort of nonsense. There's heaps more things that have happened, but I might lose the plot somewhere and go ballistic.
*Sigh again* How do you go about feeling about an old friend of yours who's moved on something horrific who's told you that she's engaged? Yea, Erika's engaged...I'm feeling happy for her, don't get me wrong, but I'm also feeling pangs of something or rather...that shouldn't be there hey? We've both moved on, but yea, no use thinking about things like that...
I've got to go do my laundry, and Uni starts tomorrow, finally...was getting a bit bored here...
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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