{"id":40,"date":"2006-08-30T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.no-ip.com\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2006-08-30T20:52:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T19:52:45","slug":"back-after-summer-and-redundancy-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/buddhist-life\/back-after-summer-and-redundancy-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"back after summer and redundancy threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer actually made a difference. It came just after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdx.ac.uk\">Middlesex University<\/a> sent this letter to all its professors (See letter below). Many of us were spared summary redundancy. Yes I know its hard times in the UK public sector yet again but could there have been a marginally less alienating way of handling this? So I staggered into the summer with low morale and panic attacks (and a newly bought coffee grinder which is temporally laid off so to speak). I <strong>emerged<\/strong> having read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litkicks.com\/BeatPages\/page.jsp?what=DharmaBums\">Dharma Bums<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siddhartha_(novel)\">Siddhartha<\/a> and determined to give up work at the soonest opportunity and scale down my Cambridge terraced house for an isolated shack in Norfolk or Suffolk where I can live the life of solitude, more building projects and contemplation. The (re)discovery of [tag]Buddhism[\/tag] for me came as a kind of answer to a prayer for some waft of spirituality and meaning in a degenerating life. So today I am back and what has three weeks of meditation and seeking refuge brought: my first row with a colleague in my working life. I am pleased. At last I am behaving differently.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image42\" src=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/redundancy061.jpg\" alt=\"redundancy061.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer actually made a difference. It came just after Middlesex University sent this letter to all its professors (See letter below). Many of us were spared summary redundancy. Yes I know its hard times in the UK public sector yet again but could there have been a marginally less alienating way of handling this?&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/buddhist-life\/back-after-summer-and-redundancy-threat\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">back after summer and redundancy threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhist-life","category-quiet-desperation","category-working-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}