Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I’m not a twisted sociopath, everyones forgiven

It seems I accidentally had a phone interview this morning for a job in ‘the M3/M4 corridor area’….not quite sure how that happened, since I’m supposed to be taking a break when I finish my current position at the end of the month.

Today the results of an ’employee satisfaction survey’ were made available. Clearly it is not appropriate for me to comment on the contents of the survey, the results or the conclusions that have been drawn from it. However, I was curious about how widespread these things are and what everyone thought about them….


Beyond that my, admittedly not particularly well crafted, plans[0] for the weekend have rather fallen apart, to be replaced with a potential Landmark in March – no details yet but let me know if you’re interested.

Of course, this leaves me at a bit of a loose end this weekend – I need to finish off the tax return(s) and put all the paperwork back into its boxes…but that should be done by the end of the week. So, is there anything going on this weekend?

[0] Someone described me as being ‘deeply commitment-phobic’ a couple of weeks ago….which I’d always considered to be code for “I’m waiting for him to ask me to marry him”, but given the context I’m reasonably sure that wasn’t what was meant….maybe I should get back into the habit of planning ahead? Am I really afraid to commit, or is it that I’m just indecisive? Do I follow through on what I’ve said I’ll do? Is anyone asking for more commitment from me? Does having a job where you might get 4 hours notice of flying halfway around the world make any difference? Should I go and get another job like that? Does it matter?


3 comments

  1. Ooo those landmark places look great. Think I’ll get a brochure.

    Rgarding satisfaction, I’m more satisfied, but I have changed job.

    I can sympathise with the commitment thing. For me it’s not fear of commitment more being restless and unable to settle down in one place, one career etc. I get bored easily and want something new.

  2. Phew, I’m glad it’s Landmark Trust rather than Landmark Forums. I had a really weird experience last year with an ex-boss trying to recruit me to LF while pretending he wanted to talk about his wank game idea. (it was quite funny in that we told each other the games we were working on and we both said “that’s too hard, you can’t do that”. But I was right and he was wrong.)

    “Actually”s deleted from this post before posting: 1
    “Actually”s added to record this fact: 2
    I’m “Actually” positive! Arg! And now the total has gone up to 3!

    • No, I’m quite cautious of the Forum, while they’ve done some good things for a couple of my friends, they do have rather a strong element of ‘cult’ about them. True, they give you some mental tools to think about things in a different way, but you can get better tools from reading the right books, or even just talking to the right people.

      Landmark Trust is the way to go.

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