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It’s a funny thing handing over your job to somebody else. It helps if you know and have confidence in the person taking over (which I do!). But it is also a bit weird.
How much do you tell them what needs to be done and how to do it? How much do you leave them to find out themselves? Do you give them a list of warnings and details of ‘politics’.. or leave them uninfluenced by the past, perhaps enabling a fresh start.
Maternity cover also has that added nuance that you’ll be coming back again in a year or so. So you hope the job will be well done. But then there is the creeping insecurity that the person taking over may do the job way better than you and that nobody will want you back again.
Sometimes this job has been a puzzle, pretty solitary at times, so I’m actually looking forward to giving the reins to somebody else for a bit and then comparing notes.
