Yoblog - Musings of a Church Youth Officer

I am still subscribed to job alerts on s1jobs.com from my old role and each time one appears in my inbox, as it did this morning, I can’t resist a wee look.  Lots of money for doing easy stuff. 

What makes it easy? For me, I think it is dealing with data, words, statistics, policies, strategy rather than people, feelings and faith.  The second is personal. The first is not. 

In my old job you could have long running battles with people about things, but nobody took it personally.  It was just work.  And you could laugh about it over lunch.

In church and children’s work it is personal.  It involves your beliefs and those of others; nobody is necessarily right or wrong.  And that to me is a big challenge.

I’m reminded of the children’s poem “There was a little girl who had a little curl”…  when it was good it was very, very good and when it was bad it was horrid!