{"id":2439,"date":"2013-09-01T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:22:11","slug":"school-daze-corfu-greece-08032013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"School Daze \u2013 Corfu, Greece \u2013 [08\/03\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tea_time_by_enchantedwhispers-d5a6cl8\"<\/a>As of the end of this cruise, I have to train someone. Me! Train someone! I am a little nervous about this really, I mean when you mentor someone it\u2019s your work ethic that they carry with them for at least their first contract, and it\u2019s you that they sort of come to count on if they need something. I\u2019ve\u2026never been really the greatest at that particular type of responsibility. BUT Head Office seems to think I can handle it, and I will \u2013 as ever \u2013 do as they tell me.<\/p>\n

For now I\u2019m just scurrying about trying to make sure that everything is up to date for her (and yes I do at least know that it\u2019s a her) arrival. I really am a regular school ma\u2019arm about my work (although I keep insisting to everyone that I am not<\/i> old enough to be called \u2018ma\u2019am) especially when I know that someone else is going to be seeing it, and possibly modeling themselves after it.<\/p>\n

Seriously though, when I started? I was handed a half page of handover notes and a set of keys (with no clue what those keys unlocked!) and told to go for it. People ask me why the handover notes I leave for my own replacements are so exhaustive \u2013 it\u2019s because I want to give them what I didn\u2019t<\/i> have. Yeah, my handover file is nearly 20 pages long, but you could be brand new<\/i> to ship-life and have nothing but that file as a guide and it will get you through the basics<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t know\u2026I still don\u2019t know if I\u2019m a \u2018trainer\u2019, but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, everything continues to go so smoothly that I\u2019m almost almost<\/i> losing my habit of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I sometimes forget how lovely it is to have a contract where you simply do your own job \u2013 only worry about your own job \u2013 do it well, and have everyone simply leave you to it. It\u2019s not that there\u2019s no pressure here, there\u2019s always a little bit of pressure, it\u2019s that the pressure is so much less<\/i>. Or perhaps I\u2019m just noticing it more this summer because the last season on the flagship was so difficult. In fact, I don\u2019t think I even realized how difficult it was until I was well out of it and woke up a month later.<\/p>\n

I adore my flagship, I truly do, but goddess it can wear me out sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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