Your stories are so close to our very different lifes and your words come deeply in our hearts. Thank you so much for sharing this uncertain time we all live in. Let’s stay together.
I haven't been commenting on these wee letters of yours, but I have been reading and enjoying your perspectives.
In this one, your line - "part of it is about finding aligned work amidst geopolitical, technological and climate shifts" - has something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Whether it's work, or my place in the world, surviving, being a responsible citizen, offering my wisdom (or lack of) and teacherly advice to my students, I've been wracked with anxiety over the future (mostly the planet's, not mine, but also worrying about my daughter's future).
Yes I keep thinking about this Stephanie - because the old model might have given me work, but often without much room for other things - right now - I have some time, but not the old reliable income - so where is the balance - and when things are changing so fast, how do we also craft on our terms?
I kept thinking I had replied to this Daniel - but clearly I have not.
Thank you for your thoughts and reading over the summer. I think I might do a what I learned from postcards series, because it was an interesting experiment and I will prob do a mix of longer form and postcards from now on.
I think things are changing so fast at the moment from tech, climate, employment. I am particularly struck by how so many doors used to be open for employment that are now closed and the labour I have to do to try to translate previous experience in ways that it now fits the market - I don't think this was needed a couple of years ago and I don't understand why companies now seem unable to read CVs in the way they used to.
Its a strange world and trying to find sensible ways through all these shifts and live in ways that respect ourselves, skills and experiences seems to be increasingly a challenge.
Anyway thanks for your reply, it struck on something that has been bubbling under the surface and it felt like the time to try and spell it out.
Your stories are so close to our very different lifes and your words come deeply in our hearts. Thank you so much for sharing this uncertain time we all live in. Let’s stay together.
Thank you Paolo - I appreciate your comment and yes - its a strange changing time - as you say, let's stay together.
I haven't been commenting on these wee letters of yours, but I have been reading and enjoying your perspectives.
In this one, your line - "part of it is about finding aligned work amidst geopolitical, technological and climate shifts" - has something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Whether it's work, or my place in the world, surviving, being a responsible citizen, offering my wisdom (or lack of) and teacherly advice to my students, I've been wracked with anxiety over the future (mostly the planet's, not mine, but also worrying about my daughter's future).
It's tough out there.
Yes, I found that part so resonant as well. And this line, ““so I can chose a life where I can earn a living and still have room for joy”
Yes I keep thinking about this Stephanie - because the old model might have given me work, but often without much room for other things - right now - I have some time, but not the old reliable income - so where is the balance - and when things are changing so fast, how do we also craft on our terms?
I kept thinking I had replied to this Daniel - but clearly I have not.
Thank you for your thoughts and reading over the summer. I think I might do a what I learned from postcards series, because it was an interesting experiment and I will prob do a mix of longer form and postcards from now on.
I think things are changing so fast at the moment from tech, climate, employment. I am particularly struck by how so many doors used to be open for employment that are now closed and the labour I have to do to try to translate previous experience in ways that it now fits the market - I don't think this was needed a couple of years ago and I don't understand why companies now seem unable to read CVs in the way they used to.
Its a strange world and trying to find sensible ways through all these shifts and live in ways that respect ourselves, skills and experiences seems to be increasingly a challenge.
Anyway thanks for your reply, it struck on something that has been bubbling under the surface and it felt like the time to try and spell it out.