I'd give anything...... No I'd give everything to not have the back pain and be in a financially secure place to go back to doing this kind of thing again. (The back problem is nothing to do with the best 3 and a bit years of my working life.....)
You may be thinking that it can't be like this everyday but those people in the video with me are some of the best people I've ever met. Even a shit day with this lot was better than the best days anywhere else...... I mean..... How often do you get to be friends with ponies and then the ponies follow you for no reason at all in your job? I know that hasnth happen in any job I've had since.
Working for the National Trust firstly as a volunteer and then as a paid ranger made me appreciate life in a way that I didn't quite understand before. I'm no longer materialistic. I don't care what people think of how I look or what I say. What I say has feeling and meaning attached to it and is not there to impress anyone.
I miss those people and those places so much. My aim in life used to be to just get to the next day with as little stress as possible. Now all I can do is gaze into the future and hope that one day soon my back in good enough to manage the journey to these places so I can visit my friends and see what they are up to.
One day soon.......
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Spent my lunchtime today watching long tailed tits flitting in the trees, a swan by the lake and the sound of a starling imitating a lorry reversing. The job is boring, things like this make it worthwhile.