Life Admin

This might sound like a strange thing to say, but it's the 'admin' side of things you don't tend to think about when big life changes happen.  Telling people about it is 'admin'.  Dealing with estate agents and looking for a job; it's all 'admin'.  You want to hire someone to do it all for you, even though this is all one great big life experience and I always said I wanted a lot of those, so it must be a Good Thing, right?

It's hard, saying the same things over and over again.  Explaining yourself so that everybody understands (or say they do) and then they can tell you to call them if you need anything.  Please believe me when I say I'm not knocking that; it's lovely, and I don't know where I'd be without certain wonderful people in my life.  It's just that every conversation I'm having is the same at the moment, and I don't want to be tiptoed around.  In fact I'd quite like it if somebody told me a joke.

It'd be nice to see some humanity in the people I'm coming into contact with, as well.  Estate agents, like recruitment consultants, seem amazingly cold-eyed and clinical when I would have thought they were jobs you could get quite a lot of satisfaction from, because you're meeting new people every day for whom you could help do something nice.

It's not that they don't do their jobs.  It's just that they do it with no interest in you whatsoever.  Maybe that's a bit harsh, because why should they?  Except that when I worked in customer service and later as a recruitment consultant I felt that behaving like a real human being and showing interest in the people I was speaking to enhanced everything about the job I was doing, and I felt that people appreciated it.  And I would really, really appreciate getting some of that back myself now.  Sometimes a few insightful or just plain nice words go a long way.

Alternatively I could stop moaning and just get on with it.  Which I will!