Going back a bit

Good Morning Dear Reader,

July of this year was the first time since my breakdown in 2002 I have started working again. I mean really working not just trying to avoid employment due to fear under the guise of not finding something. I started working in July in a plastics factory. It was a real morale booster. I found that yes I wasn’t completely useless and that the world of work is not always full of utter uncaring and downright evil people who feel they must bully others to gain advancement in their own careers. Yes I was feeling good. Good is of course a relative concept. The work was hard but was extremely satisfying. Imagine a meat grinder. You put meat in and out comes spaghetti. Now when you make plastics you put in the raw materials in one end of the meat grinder. This is done by loading a 700kg crate of stuff (more like a powdery type thing) into one end. There is an Archimedes screw that draws the raw materiel through. This screw is heated up to about between 100°C – 200°C. When the “spaghetti” comes out it is cut up into very fine slices (about 350 – 500 revolutions a second), which is cooled down by air and blown through pipes into a silo. When the silo is full you empty it. Then the whole thing starts again. That’s the basics. It’s pretty hot and pretty dusty work. But I loved it. It was just what the doctor ordered. I became confident again. Not exactly “conquer the world confident”, but confident never the less!

Between that and the next job I had interviews and the people said they loved me and when there was a position they would of course call me. I’m still waiting…

The next job was constructing floorboards for terraces of holiday chalets. Not the most exciting of jobs, and lasted only the three days of the contract. What a relief. It was backbreaking. The guy I worked with was used to seeing temp agency guys not lasting very long. I can understand why no. Even the guy who was after me (one of the Dads of one of Killian’s schoolmates) only lasted five weeks before saying no, his health was more important. I feel no guilt.

The next job started in November. I was to build farm machinery. But that you know already. however you are now up to date on what went on before the blog. Yes Dear reader there was life before the creatin of this blog...