NORTHERN PLANNER

Two apparently unrelated things connected for me this week.

Firstly, thanks to all the swimming training I’m doing, I occasionally find myself a bit tired and have to watch out for momentary lapses of judgement at work. It’s hard doing anything anything significant outside of a full time job unless your commited and fantastically organised (I’m commited but the organisation is something I’m working on…..). This may explain the embarassing typos and less than interesting posts on this blog, or that’s my excuse anyway.

Which brings me to the other thing. I work on ChildLine for free, which isn’t always easy to fit around paying clients’ . This is nothing next to the volunteers who give up regular evenings and weekends to man the phones and raise money. You have to admire their commitment when it can affect the energy they have for their real job, and ‘me time’. Makes me wonder how  much recruiting volunteers for stuff is about them getting some slack from the people they work for, and live with. Maybe it’s no coincidence that the profile for charity workers is bored Mums and empty nesters.