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Life and working

C Donlan

Sometimes life gets in the way of work and sometimes work gets in the way of life. Life is more important so following on from two family bereavements last year, I have made some changes to my work. I finished working at the Cathedral at the end of September after having been there for six months. I enjoyed some of it and other parts were more difficult. It’s definitely an interesting place to work and the location and building are unique. But I don’t think it worked for me, a bit square peg-ish. I did have the opportunity of a … Continue reading Life and working

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All change…again – new jobs – Cathedral, Library, University.

C Donlan

At the end of March, I changed jobs again.  It’s all part of the “master plan” about having more flexibility, less responsibility and working locally.  The “less responsibility” criteria is much more complicated than I expected, for different reasons than I had anticipated, so I’ll leave that to one side for now.   I had been working at Newcastle University Library from November 2021 and I enjoyed the job.  It was in my comfort zone definitely as I’ve lots of experience working in an academic library but now, we are settled living in Durham, I was looking for jobs based in … Continue reading All change…again – new jobs – Cathedral, Library, University.