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Here's my "The Personal Is Political" version:
I spend my working life trying to facilitate change in the way human beings working in a healthcare trust interact as colleagues, promoting the concept that they are all human beings (fallible, emotional, contradictory, frustrated) who need to work together to work happily, humanely and effectively. I use my considerable charisma and my admirable skills to get teams to sit down and talk to each other, to make participative and focused decisions about their response to change, and to make and follow through on pragmatic plans for action. I'm the man taking care of all the Equal Opportunities, Anti-Discrimatory Practice, User Involvement, Cultural and Spiritual Awareness training workshops. I also flirt, confront and have robust fun with my lovely colleagues (not for much longer, sob...)
I spend the rest of my time:
- travelling up and down to London, financed by money I don't have, to have brief encounters each weekend with Elephant Boy (thereby subverting the stereotype that gay men can't commit to long term relationships)
- texting and phoning dozens of times per day to keep both our peckers up (thereby paying the wages of many Vodaphone employees)
- giving tlc to two cats who think they've been orphaned since Big G left (thereby confirming the stereotype of childless gay couples having feline children. There's got to be a Malthusian purpose there, hard on the local rodent and small bird populations though...)
- studying for endless bloody qualifications to advance the second career I have begun in midlife (um, why? I suppose to keep me from having ever again to work ten times as hard as a nurse for much less money)
- going to the pub with my excellent chums (thereby contributing to the general level of human happiness and the profits of a Czech brewery)
- I have commited random sections of a book I've been writing for twenty years to paper and will persevere until the sections all join up (thereby contributing vainly to the deforestation of the planet and averting pre-senile dementia)
- surf the net and post on Barbelith (who needs a reason, I'm learning about the wider, weirder world)
- I babysit my lovely nieces (thereby contributing to their parent's earning potential and being updated on Philip Pullman, Korean martial arts, Will Young and other unthreatening boys)
- I am a practising sexual sadomasochist (getting better all the time and educating the muggle world I inhabit about my favourite perversions)
- I read and read and read, and watch lots of shite SciFi on tv
and then I have breakfast... |
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