CV and mad panic behaviour

[Thryleon]

[member=153]LP[/member] Regarding change the only thing permanent is change.  During the pandemic ive operated on a plan for the worst and plan for the best case scenario but ultimately my employer made it easy for me to embrace change because of their sheer short sightedness (yes, Vic health).

I plunged 10% of cash into the stock market last year to Kickstart a retirement fund.  Tick.  Bought blue chip stocks at discounts not seen since the GFC, and most have recovered quite nicely.

I commenced a course in cyber security to leverage a growing demand in my industry whilst in lockdown.  This may or may not pay off but im learning things which is good enough and at worst broadens my skillset.

The other thing I've done is leveraged the vaccine mandate to get myself a promotion and career growth using the vaccine to my advantage.  Lots of anti vax sentiment in IT land, has resulted in shortages of people who will be dedicated to the task and appropriately qualified.  Thats got me into a role i lack formal qualifications for but I have some experience doing as part of a helper of sorts.  End result a smaller company recognised i can fill a hole and have taken a bit of a gamble based on my potential to fill the need.



These things will pay dividends in time, once covid is a thing of the past and maybe sooner if I'm lucky, but even if covid is here to stay, I've done what I can to profit from a shit situation, now its do what I can to avoid infection and stay safe.  Easy enough to do. 

All the while I have been critical of some of the strategy and government response, for its somewhat hypocrisy.  As a health care worker I spent more time in the covid firing line than the average employee.  I didn't qualify for the payments that other employees got for being in that firing line because of a lack of understanding of people to see that some staff go into the danger zone and come out again rather than doing a full shift in an equivalent where there were no covid positive patients.

This also meant no proactive testing for us.  A big stuff up from staff who only see the patient care experience from the clinical perspective which was arguably what made it easy for me to jump out of that space.

Ironically, I'm facing more restriction from my new client side about attending than I did at a health service who publically told staff not to move around and then internally asked why it took so long to see someone from IT and encouraged seeing more people as soon as possible. 

This is where the government lack empathy for the common person and are solely reacting with a lack of fore thought to all the things.  Its like the effort goes into the key visible reaction rather than the unseen prevention and a cynic will state its because no votes or glory is won in areas that aren't publicly visible...