I have just looked at my jobs.ac.uk wall-planner and realised that I’ve been in my new job for 6 weeks now! My feet have hardly touched the ground what with meeting new colleagues, writing lectures, helping students and completing administrative tasks all taking my attention. This is the first opportunity that I have had for a while to sit back and think ‘wow, I have got a permanent job, this is it, this is what it’s like to be a lecturer’!
Archive for October, 2007
Career building while at the coal-face
Friday, October 12th, 2007Learning to say ‘no’!
Friday, October 5th, 2007Number of weeks in new job: 5
Number of tasks volunteered for: lots!
Now I have been in my new job for about a month or so, I am really starting to notice the differences between being a permanent member of staff and on a short term contract or hourly paid. Of course good institutions like the ones I’ve worked for encourage their part-timers to play as full a part in the life of the department as possible, but naturally there are areas that they are not included in. As a permanent member of staff I can become more involved in strategic decision-making and in hiring of other staff, as well as being much more autonomous when it comes to my own teaching.
