How do they know it wasn’t a problem with the man?
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A full house ?
Paid off ?!
Duck the kid… I’d have that all day and twice on Sundays !
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They don’t, but it’s a macho society, so of course it’s not the man 
Of course
So if you’re bloke in Cyprus and don’t want kids, do you just drive around looking for women crying and carrying a suitcase? 
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speaking from professional experience that tactic can go seriously wrong !
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I find going around crying and carrying a suitcase tends to attract the more mothery types…
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Good news for me, I’ll be smarter than Einstein 
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Well, that cheered me up 
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I guess it depends we’re you work…
Today I … ripped a ligature from around someone’s neck, it wouldn’t break so it left a mark on his neck, apparently he’s phoned his solicitor
Comforted a female colleague who was In Floods as she’s just too nice for this crappy job.
Walked into someone’s cell as he wanted to fight ( he’s a 7 stone horrible smack head, so no hero, he didn’t want to fight in the end)
Turned the fire alarm off 34555334 times, a few were live fires, but spent quite a long time reasoning with and encouraging dental people who have lost all hope and are obviously mentally ill.
In a …. Years I’ll be taking my chances !
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I genuinely don’t know how you do it! I’m pretty cold and can be detached emotionally but I think I’d struggle, especially for your colleague.
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Managed to last 12 days into '23 before I started looking at my AVCs & pension predictions 
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Should be bike day tomorrow 
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Yesterday was a paticulary bad day.
I won’t bore you with the details but it was awful.
The trade off is sitting in a hospital listening to music / talking rubbish like we all do for 8 hours on a decent overtime rate, prisoner is asleep/ dying / no bother.
But my full time colleagues have two more days of that …
I’ll have a big decision to make early next year.
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From your comments I thought it sounded like a done deal, or look for the hospital job!
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Not far off here either, first week wasn’t bad as the students weren’t back, staff were still off and we were concentrating on a major upgrade.
Bedlam again this week with BS that could easily have been avoided in some cases.
Then at my MBTI thing yesterday it pretty much confirmed what I knew that the role has changed and well out of my standard personality type and partly why I often feel mentally drained at the end of the day or week.
Also said I’m not one to get bogged down with formalities or paperwork I pointed out that I was being forced to do things that are against my religious beliefs
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I have a lovely girlfriend / fiancé/ wife soon.
But I will have been part time 9 years then no time 9 years before she can retire, she works full time.
At 55 I’ll be ready to leave financially ( I hope ) or very close
She knows me well and says I’ll get bored…?!
The hospital job is always overtime, you can’t just do them unfortunately.
Would be nice to complete 35 years service and walk which is 2.5 years away, but depends on how bad it gets.
It’s 19 hours a week…
See how we go.
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One can be expensive enough, 3 must be a real challenge. Although with all the running around the chances of needing to save for a long retirement must be slim 
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It was about 5 for me 
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But Alan Couzens says I am only allowed to do Z2 until I can rdo an IM in under 9 hours
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