Hello again.
It's been a while. I doubt that this blog still has any readers at all, but hey.
I suppose I shall rename this blog now - now it's more like From Prague via Manchester to London. But I probably won't, at least for a while. Anyway, this is where I am now - London. I relocated at the end of April (...29 April to be more precise), and I now live on the edge of Shoreditch, the hipsta-fancy-supercool-nonmainstream part of this very interesting city.
As you can imagine, a lot has happened in the past 16 months. It's a long and complicated story of one broken heart. Plus at least one psycho. Plus some martial arts. :)
Long story short: things became bad at work. Then worse. Then much worse. Then even much, much worse. Then, insanely bad. And then I left because I have been pushed so far, and so hard, that I just couldn't cope any more. And that was it. I will spare you details. I will only make the following two comments:
1/ I never did anything wrong. I kept in line with my core values and with integrity, and I always followed what I believed in. For which I paid dearly.
2/ My heart is broken, not love-wise but work-wise. I invested incredible amount of time, energy and passion into my work, and it just did not work, and at the end it all blew up in my face, and I was left an emotional wreck.
Anyway. I started looking for work. I tried to stay in Manchester. because things. I kinda liked the city I guess. But no way, the only interview I had in Mcr did not go very well, and after seeing potential employers in London, Birmingham, London, Glasgow, London, Newcastle, London, Southampton, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm, I was left with two offers. London, or - London. I picked London.
So here I am, in a shared flat once again, living in a room which has, like, 8 sqare meters. Sharing, among others, with a cat.
Great many things happened since my last post. For example:
- Brexit referendum happened, with the f. results
- Theresa May (and her b/s) happened to us
- I started aikido (Oh yes! I! Started! Aikido!)
- we went for Christmas holidays in Malta (...you'd never guess how cool it is to go to Malta in winter!)
- Theresa May said things to EU (oh no)
- I relocated, and now I am observing a different city (which feels so different that I now believe people who say 'London is like a different country when compared to the rest of the UK')
- I lectured in Brussels (which was surprisingly good)
- my students got their exam results (aaand - some of them made it - yaaaay!)
- I realized how much better my currect company is compared to my previous company
I think that I will write about most of these things some time in the future. Or maybe not. We'll see. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
No. 2 happened to me too. Know how you feel. But in the end it was for the best. Sincerely hope that it will turn out great for you and open up new possibilities!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back after long time of silence. Some readers are still here, obviously :-)
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