A very rare morning finds me without an entry in my diary apart from morning prayers. Prayers finished I bump into two worthy gentleman fixing the light bulbs in the hall... both volunteers we have a happy time working as a team. Them doing the work and me telling them what a good job they are doing basically. I often feel that my job is like young Mr Grace in “Are you being served.” He used to come in at the end of the episode with his famous catchphrase: “"You've all done very well!”
I have been a lot of thinking about volunteers recently; it’s so easy to forget that most of the people I work with are basically pursuing their hobby. Or is that it? Most of my thinking about volunteers has focussed on them. Maybe I need to think about what it means to be paid.
We had the entrepreneurs event on Monday and what was striking about many of them was that they saw their work as what they did and that if they made money it was a bonus. Perhaps we, and by that I mean I am too hooked up on the paid thing... work is work whether we are paid or not. Maybe we need to find ways to value what we do which don’t relate to whether we are paid or not.
Hmmn, I need to do some thinking about that.
As for now I just want to say: “"You've all done very well!!”
Given that's what he said how appropriate it was that he was called "Mr Grace."
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