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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanTo my immense annoyance I am reminded that I get to spend the next three days from tomorrow on a course at the Civil Service College in Belgrave Road. Normally I quite look forward to a few days out of the office, but I'm doing this course largely because I was told that I had to go on a course as part of my career development.*
So I picked one largely on account of its cost to the department expecting them to say 'no'. But they said 'yes' and as a consequence, I am doomed to trail around the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on Thursday pretending to be interested in their housing management function. Oh joy. The other course, the one I wanted to go on (though for private interest rather than any relevance to the job), Understanding the EU was also approved. Unfortunately it was also cancelled since I appear to be the only person in the civil service who wanted to go on it.
Who says we Brits are insular?
* One of the meanings of the word career is to move along swiftly, or in an uncontrolled way. It is the second aspect of this which applies to me. The wider definition of path through life or history, or progress in a chosen job or profession is only peripheral and does not convery the proper feeling of downward motion.
So I picked one largely on account of its cost to the department expecting them to say 'no'. But they said 'yes' and as a consequence, I am doomed to trail around the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on Thursday pretending to be interested in their housing management function. Oh joy. The other course, the one I wanted to go on (though for private interest rather than any relevance to the job), Understanding the EU was also approved. Unfortunately it was also cancelled since I appear to be the only person in the civil service who wanted to go on it.
Who says we Brits are insular?
* One of the meanings of the word career is to move along swiftly, or in an uncontrolled way. It is the second aspect of this which applies to me. The wider definition of path through life or history, or progress in a chosen job or profession is only peripheral and does not convery the proper feeling of downward motion.