When I was offered a position in Edinburgh, I did have to question whether I was being realistic. If my current job was full on, this one would certainly be living on the job!
“You’ll always be able to move up and get these leadership roles when you want them,” my girlfriend said. “You’re busy enough as you are and we need to enjoy being in London with our friends while we’re in our 20s.” I delayed in making the decision and as much as it perhaps shouldn’t have been, my girlfriend was the tie keeping me in London.
Nonetheless, I’ve always had the desire and passion to do a job like this. I was told by many that it would all be too much, that I couldn’t be expected to juggle this role with a girlfriend, friends, family, social life etc etc. But I couldn’t be told: I could do it all, I thought, and I took the job calling the Headmaster on a Saturday afternoon after our joint birthday party, hungover and shattered at the end of a long school week and a long, cold January.
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