Practitioner's Diary: Quietly optimistic
Our West Country general practitioner is quietly optimistic that January 2006 won't be a repeat of 2005.
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29 November - Final 31 January 2005 accounts despatched to Companies ouse this morning, another month done and dusted.
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Strange but true
St Isidore (c.560-636) does indeed hold the positions listed above. I checked him out on the Internet and found:
"He is best known, however, for his voluminous writings. His most influential work is the Etymologies or Origins, an encyclopedic treatise that aims to set down all the knowledge of the time. It is a comprehensive work in plan, and it transmitted to scholars of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance a great measure of classical learning. It was, however, a completely derived work, unenlightened by firsthand observation, and sometimes faulty in its scholarship."
Sounds like the ideal patron for the Internet!
Employee demands
Interesting that the replacement didn't feel sufficiently challenged. Whatever the reality of the job, it is becoming a fact of life that talent wants more than a fat pay packet. Job satisfaction, which includes being challenged, is drawing people to the more innovative firms.