The difference between a “contractor” and “consultant” has become utterly clear to me over the past few months

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I am baking away the professional blues, having completed the contract with the client and having not been asked to extend it.  Same client I have suffered and written about in all recent posts and yet, perversely, I hate the fact that they have not extended with us – I would much rather have gotten [...]

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The Bush pub in Ovington – no need to bother

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I know it should be obvious that output and outcome are not the same, but

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I am delighted to be able to write that I have recovered my usual bounce.  All feelings of failure have flitted out the window.  I would be  even more delighted to be able to say “never to return” but that is unrealistic and anyway success needs failure just like light needs the darkness.  I was [...]

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the confusion between leadership and control.

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I decided today that I would quit my project.  Yes, that is it.  Quit.  This is a bittersweet moment.  Sweet because I don’t want to work with this client in this role one moment more that I have to, and bitter because I have arrived at this moment through failure.  I have failed utterly to [...]

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Based on her article in The Times on 6 January Anne Atkins would have us feel sorry for the poor vicars who give up “decent income, chance of promotion and career structure, mortgage and home…public recognition, financial security” and that she and her husband expected “appreciation” from “intelligent Christians” for making this sacrifice. More appreciation than nurses, or firemen, or teachers or fireifghters or any other of the vocational workers who give up all the same things for their chosen path? Clearly, yes. But why?

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