gillpolack @ 2015-05-21T14:48:00
This is the week of the work experience phonecalls.
I never know if a work experience student will see my workplace as suitable for them or not. Today, not. Three years ago, very. Today's was a shame, for a student I had calls about wants to be a journalist and I could have given her everything from interviews with writers to getting information to media concerning my work. She has found a more obvious match in another workplace, however, which probably means she'll be photocopying and making coffee more than interviewing and sorting out media presence. Other years I've had books to sort and paper to file, but this year almost everything I can offer a work experience student is higher level. Life is a bit odd like that.
I don't mind not having a student right now, to be honest, for I have a book to finish once teaching is over for the term, and I might be pressed for time. From my point of view, the whole work experience thing is time-consuming. Fun and rather cool, but it eats large chunks of my day. So the very moment when I have the most interesting things to offer is also the very moment when it's better for me to be working alone.
And in other news, I am a guest on David McDonald's blog today, talking about the cost of being a writer: http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/2015/05/paying-for-our-passion-gillian-polack/
I never know if a work experience student will see my workplace as suitable for them or not. Today, not. Three years ago, very. Today's was a shame, for a student I had calls about wants to be a journalist and I could have given her everything from interviews with writers to getting information to media concerning my work. She has found a more obvious match in another workplace, however, which probably means she'll be photocopying and making coffee more than interviewing and sorting out media presence. Other years I've had books to sort and paper to file, but this year almost everything I can offer a work experience student is higher level. Life is a bit odd like that.
I don't mind not having a student right now, to be honest, for I have a book to finish once teaching is over for the term, and I might be pressed for time. From my point of view, the whole work experience thing is time-consuming. Fun and rather cool, but it eats large chunks of my day. So the very moment when I have the most interesting things to offer is also the very moment when it's better for me to be working alone.
And in other news, I am a guest on David McDonald's blog today, talking about the cost of being a writer: http://www.davidmcdonaldspage.com/2015/05/paying-for-our-passion-gillian-polack/
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