It’s one of those parralell walks, Cosmo’s in his world and I’m in mine. Just following an unknown path in the woods. Paths in the woods are a bit like paths in real life.
Feeling overwelmed, small, grumpy and anyoyed that I have got to answer the same old questions, those same old questions for every job application. You know the ones, those ones you can never answer because you dont know the answers, yet you’ve had to answer them loads and loads of times before.
‘outline your ideas…. and how you might approach this….. and why are you interested….. how will you fulfill the aims……. how do you meet the person specifacation……..outline relevant experiance and show evidence of interest in this project?
I’ve gone all sulky and I’m walking in the woods saying….. Well…I dont know do I, because I’ve never been there have I, I havent met anyone there, I dont know how the dynamic between the stakeholders works, and I dont know what people living there think. I dont know whats interesting yet or how I’m going to do all the stuff you want to know. I’m not sure whats relevant and I think your person spec sounds like an administrative position and I dont know how to show you evidence of interest in this project either. Is’nt an application evidence of interest, what sort of questions that?
Now….do some peole who think in logical organised processes have generic systematic answers to all these questions and they apply a formula to cover the range of stuff required. Can they invent hypothesis and systems they are going to use, without knowing what they are going to use them on.
me…..I don’t know how I’m going to do it, and when I write what I’m going to do, when I get there I might need to change it, as I can see a better way of doing it, as there are other intersting things i didnt know about before. But I can do it, I just cant tell you yet!
Not much good sending that.
So in the end you just write something and dont agonise over every paragraph cos who ever reads it does’nt know you agonised over it and you really tried hard to answer the questions and it took a day to choose the things you wanted to show them.
or
you just cut and paste from the last two or three applications you made, selected several nice photos and sent the whole thing off before 10.30 in the morning?
So what are the best questions to ask then? oh …. It’s allways about writing, it frustrates me and I’m not in the mood for it. Just get on with it and DO IT, anything, it does not matter, so what if it misses the target. Next time move he target and you might hit it.
These woodland paths widen, narrow, open out, take you to places you dont know, become impassable, lead you into sunny clearings, or go all bumpy. Metahors for life really.
