Message #61597

[raindance]

Thank you, all, for your replies to my posting.  I really do appreciate them, and will print them out and consider them very carefully.

It may well be that my assistant is thinking about the future and wishing to have a post similar to mine.   That's wonderful.  I really want her to succeed in this post and do well in the future.  This may sound ageist, but it isn't intended: she is very young, left school at the earliest opportunity and has lots of potential.  This is completely the opposite to my own situation, and I have to be sensitive to the fact that our education, training and experience are very different.

I will reflect on all your comments, but I think I am beginning to see a way through this.

Many thanks.

Best wishes,

Raindance