Bear Gets Philipholosical...
Y'know what?
I nearly gave up yesterday. I'd rung the woman who arranged the physio places three times and left messages, and she hadn't got back to me. I decided to try once more, and she answered, and was hugely apologetic, but even so - couldn't offer me more than a couple of days experience, when for some reason the figure I have in my head is two weeks minimum.
Dejected, I thanked her, we agreed she'd get in touch when she'd sported the two days, and went back to my books, thinking "well, that's the end of that". Two measly days!
Then something clicked, and I thought "feck it". Ther's other areas, there's other hospitals, and there's other ways of doing this. I was going to be blagging a bit, scrounging almost - picking up scraps wherever I could, and could expect to get the door metaphorically slammed in my face a few times. Yes, I had left it all a bit late, but I got myself busy, barely off the phone all morning, and pestered the physio departments of assorted hospitals. Okay, not everyone had good news, but there were some who seemed to pretty much expected to be rung up by students looking for experience, and others promised to call back. One asked me to write a letter, as while they were full, they had some vacancies in January. While not ideal, if I could get some earlier, i could start my UCAS application (how you get into uni) with something to base it on, and say I had more lined up for later.
I headed off for lunch, and then into wuk to see my ex-colleague Gordon, having two days sorted out - I got some in early October, which resolved the one that I could base my UCAS form on. Then - the phone rang, people ringing up with dates, leaving messages when I coukldn't answer because I was on the bike, and so on. I even got an offer for some teaching work - which has yet to be finalised and I may or may not take - on my terms as the study really has to take priority.
This morning - I have four days definitely lined up at three hospitals, with another five days at three other hospitals in the pipeline, and I'm about to ring a couple of local sports physios to ask them. A few things still have to fall into place, but even so I already have nine days booked or in the pipeline (and should pan out), and the sports stuff is a bonus on top of that.
So - what I once thought was a problem has now pretty much all been resolved. It's kinda odd - you put yourself out there, you ring up, maybe feeling a bit cheeky, but somehow the universe seems to be throwing stuff my way. I think I read something like that in a self-help book a few years back - "The Universe is Benevolent". "Bollox", was my initial reaction - the universe just is - it isn't sitting looking who needs a bit of a hand.
I still think it's bollox, or at least the concept of some "universe" looking kindly on me is, but I do think that not giving up; getting your head down and carrying on trying when the first few tries don't work, is important. Maybe by putting myself out there, I'll come across a lot more people willing to help, and get good stuff that way. Sure - there's always a few twunts around who delight in making things tricky, but there's enough people who like to help
Another example - wtheteaching work - I didn't even ask for that - but I'm known for being damn good at my job, so when this other school rung my old workplace, they thought of me. Connections like that seem to be happening a lot! Oh - and one of the PTs down the gym who I'd seen at Southwater tri came up and started talking the ohter day - and I'm now booked in to do a bleep test on Saturday. She also told me about a mastes' swim session at David Lloyd on Monday that I was unaware of (shame it clashes with AS Bio but that's not the point - there'll be holidays, and in any other circumstance it would be very useful info). I think I may well ask her to come on the pirate bike ride on Saturday if she's not working.
Another phrase I've heard is "put good stuff out there and it'll come back to you". I'd always been a bit cynical about that to be honest. Maybe now it makes sense - if you talk to people, pass on info, then they'll do the same back. I guess maybe it's partly to do with trusting the world (other people) not to bite your head off. Most of the time it'll work, or not do any harm, and gives a good feeling anyway. Don't hide away because occasionally you get a bad reaction!
Okay - pontification over - I haven't figured it out really, just somewhat amazed at how I now view the place as a lot more benevolent than I did!
Discuss - 1000 words, in my pigeonhole by next Tuesday ;o)
I nearly gave up yesterday. I'd rung the woman who arranged the physio places three times and left messages, and she hadn't got back to me. I decided to try once more, and she answered, and was hugely apologetic, but even so - couldn't offer me more than a couple of days experience, when for some reason the figure I have in my head is two weeks minimum.
Dejected, I thanked her, we agreed she'd get in touch when she'd sported the two days, and went back to my books, thinking "well, that's the end of that". Two measly days!
Then something clicked, and I thought "feck it". Ther's other areas, there's other hospitals, and there's other ways of doing this. I was going to be blagging a bit, scrounging almost - picking up scraps wherever I could, and could expect to get the door metaphorically slammed in my face a few times. Yes, I had left it all a bit late, but I got myself busy, barely off the phone all morning, and pestered the physio departments of assorted hospitals. Okay, not everyone had good news, but there were some who seemed to pretty much expected to be rung up by students looking for experience, and others promised to call back. One asked me to write a letter, as while they were full, they had some vacancies in January. While not ideal, if I could get some earlier, i could start my UCAS application (how you get into uni) with something to base it on, and say I had more lined up for later.
I headed off for lunch, and then into wuk to see my ex-colleague Gordon, having two days sorted out - I got some in early October, which resolved the one that I could base my UCAS form on. Then - the phone rang, people ringing up with dates, leaving messages when I coukldn't answer because I was on the bike, and so on. I even got an offer for some teaching work - which has yet to be finalised and I may or may not take - on my terms as the study really has to take priority.
This morning - I have four days definitely lined up at three hospitals, with another five days at three other hospitals in the pipeline, and I'm about to ring a couple of local sports physios to ask them. A few things still have to fall into place, but even so I already have nine days booked or in the pipeline (and should pan out), and the sports stuff is a bonus on top of that.
So - what I once thought was a problem has now pretty much all been resolved. It's kinda odd - you put yourself out there, you ring up, maybe feeling a bit cheeky, but somehow the universe seems to be throwing stuff my way. I think I read something like that in a self-help book a few years back - "The Universe is Benevolent". "Bollox", was my initial reaction - the universe just is - it isn't sitting looking who needs a bit of a hand.
I still think it's bollox, or at least the concept of some "universe" looking kindly on me is, but I do think that not giving up; getting your head down and carrying on trying when the first few tries don't work, is important. Maybe by putting myself out there, I'll come across a lot more people willing to help, and get good stuff that way. Sure - there's always a few twunts around who delight in making things tricky, but there's enough people who like to help
Another example - wtheteaching work - I didn't even ask for that - but I'm known for being damn good at my job, so when this other school rung my old workplace, they thought of me. Connections like that seem to be happening a lot! Oh - and one of the PTs down the gym who I'd seen at Southwater tri came up and started talking the ohter day - and I'm now booked in to do a bleep test on Saturday. She also told me about a mastes' swim session at David Lloyd on Monday that I was unaware of (shame it clashes with AS Bio but that's not the point - there'll be holidays, and in any other circumstance it would be very useful info). I think I may well ask her to come on the pirate bike ride on Saturday if she's not working.
Another phrase I've heard is "put good stuff out there and it'll come back to you". I'd always been a bit cynical about that to be honest. Maybe now it makes sense - if you talk to people, pass on info, then they'll do the same back. I guess maybe it's partly to do with trusting the world (other people) not to bite your head off. Most of the time it'll work, or not do any harm, and gives a good feeling anyway. Don't hide away because occasionally you get a bad reaction!
Okay - pontification over - I haven't figured it out really, just somewhat amazed at how I now view the place as a lot more benevolent than I did!
Discuss - 1000 words, in my pigeonhole by next Tuesday ;o)
posted by XFR Bear @ 12:34 pm
3 Comments:
Feel the fear and do it anyway! The theory is that what may or may not happen if you do [b][i]something[/b][/i] instead of nothing is rarely going to be worse as doing nothing so you might as well try and see. And you may be pleasantly surprised.
You can stop being philosophical now, it's too much for me to cope with ..... ;o)
yeah - great book :o)
Must give it another read.
Bits of life are rather oddly linking up and making sense right now.
Life linking up and making sense... it does that when you pay attention to it
¦oD
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