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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » Myself and my business partner have on numerous occassions (usually when something is going wrong) felt as though we are chained to our business. However this has taken on a more literal meaning in the last few weeks as we struggle to fulfil our order obligations in the busy run up to Christmas.
I arrive back from 'my other job' and I feel the work room calling to me with a slippery tongue. It tells me I cannot, must not sit down. I walk zombie like to confront the mountain of products that need completing. Pick up, put in bag, attach label, punch hole for display, pick up, put in bag, attach label, punch hole for display, pick up, put in bag, attach label, punch hole for display so on and so on ad infinitum until mind and body are comfortably numb.
At this point I slap myself around a bit and enjoy the simple but satisfying pleasure of knowing that for the last few weeks and for a few more to come I have The Best Job In The World
'Why?' you ask...
For this short time I have effectively become Santa's little helper. I am an elf in human clothing. My house is a grotto and I am beavering away within it hand finishing products that will (logic being folllowed to it's logical conclusion) eventually find themselves in children's stockings up and down the country on a very special night only six or seven weeks away (I'm not good with dates!).
This instantly cheering thought has been called upon frequently over the last week or so, guarranteed as it is to warm the cockles of my heart.
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