peterdarkdragon

Not that that is a bad thing. Just recapping this last week I’ve made it past the first hurdle of my first week on my management development role for a major uk supermarket. That really was just dipping my feet in the water though, next week things get serious and I have to get to work meeting the targets I’ve been set to achieve. Which...
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Well…kinda promoted. It’s more a Team Manager Development Role rather than a full Team Manager position. I will be held accountable for results and performance targets like any Manager, I just won’t have the full Partner Development Lifecycle or Audit of paperwork to worry about. It’s a really a great opportunity to prove I can cut it as a Manager. I’ve seen lots of Partners...
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…well, it certainly is looking that way. What had started out as simply a project for my career path could be heading towards not exactly a promotion but more a secondment to a small time manager role. From the little I’ve heard I would be a manager in all but name. I’d have a small team that I’d manage just as a manger would. Hours...
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I’m still in shock from hearing this; that David Jason Frank of Power Rangers fame has died aged 49. That really is no age to have your life end. If there was one person in my life that was my first idol, it was JDF. He was just the kind of person I’d have given anything to be. Not in terms of his martial arts...
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Nostalgia over being ill, can you say you’ve ever heard of such a thing. It’s not that I’m nostalgic over the illness itself, I’m not reminiscing about symptoms of halcyon days. Like remember the days when I had that scratchy sore throat. No. But I do have good memories of times when I have been sick. Like one Christmas around 20 years ago. Well more...
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I guess an argument could be made here that simply by social distancing and wearing masks etc at work might mean that I’ve avoided the infections that would have given me some immunity to help fight them off. Guess it doesn’t matter really. Either way I feel terrible right now. I ache in places I didn’t think you could ache. I mean toes…seriously? My thighs...
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I know it’s considered a somewhat high brow concept of a series and maybe not for everyone. I also know it’s not exactly been the best received series around recently. And yet, speaking as a long time Tolkien Fan, I actually enjoyed it. Yes, they had to take some creative licence with the histories and kinda squashed things up a little bit. I don’t have...
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I don’t know why but I’ve been feeling oddly nostalgic recently for childhood summer days. Summer was always a special time for me, really the best time of year even above Christmas. Maybe because my birthday falls in summer. That’s certainly a reason. Of course there is always the sunshine and long days being outside and just running around having fun even if just in...
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Which might sound like a good thing, only it’s more a routine I’ve gotten into without really thinking about it. I’m all for the kinda routine where you get up early and pound the pavement or hit the punching bag or bash out some writing before breakfast. This isn’t that kinda routine. I’d almost call it a rut in a way. I really need to...
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This has to be my favourite time of the year, without a doubt. The end of June that is. Not just because it’s the time of my longest vacation but also because my birthday is coming up really soon. Middle of June is the perf3ct time for a birthday I think. It’s warm. It’s sunny. Birds are singing in the sky. So you can just...
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