TGessIF!

It’s Friday lunchtime, I’m in the large, well-lit classroom of a plush central London building surrounded by the quiet discussion of students working on a project. Me? I’m wondering how on earth I shall stay awake until the end of the day. I’m not teaching this class, which keeps the brain and body engaged; instead I am auditing another Instructor and making notes for him to improve the course. Now, this might be considered interesting work and it would be if the Instructor, who happens to be the author of the course, had any substantial deficiencies, but he doesn’t. It is a privilege to work with such a knowledgeable person, but it makes for a mind and bum-numbing audit.

Interestingly, the time I have spent in here has given me a huge insight into the art of authoring courses and I’m rather tempted to try my hand at it. There is a topic I think would fit well into the curriculum and I have a particular area of expertise that would give me an advantage. The art now will be to persuade the Product Development Manager that she wants to run the course as part of the curriculum. Having spent this week in a classroom listening to how to present powerful and persuasive proposals, I should have the toolkit to achieve this successfully.

There is only one question that remains; do I really want to spend more time in London, which is where the course would run most of the time, than I already do? There’s a strong argument that it would be better to focus on local, though less lucrative, business, but if I am to be able to buy my farm, set up my Wicca centre and do the things I want, I know I shall have to earn at London rates for a while yet. There, it wasn’t that difficult to answer the question, was it Sarah?

So, rather than writing more paragraphs of this blog, I shall make a start on outlining the proposal. Here’s to new opportunities and income streams towards my objectives (I’d call them dreams, but they will happen, so they have to be objectives, as dreams only ever happen in one’s head).