Enrolment bonanza day! Mine got processed today, after running around realising I had the wrong email address, then the process had changed from last year and a bunch of manual stuff was required… I’m in nowhere near the same situation as you but somehow throughout all my schooling years I’ve ended up needing all sorts of exemptions and it’s taught me a lot about patience when dealing with bureaucracy.
In a way, I’m kind of glad for some of the bureaucracy I’ve had to deal with. It would be a lot more difficult to navigate the byzantine systems every organisation even remotely involved with the government seems to be obsessed with if I didn’t have years of experience already!
In all seriousness, that is a resume skill! (Process oriented, attention to detail, familiarity with complex multi-stakeholder systems etc)
I currently have jobs that are very heavy on bureaucracy (one in the org itself, the other due to client requirements) and being used to working with it and learning how they think has been a real boon. It makes some parts of the job a lot less stressful than they would be otherwise and also makes me more likely to pick up stuff that others won’t
Enrolment bonanza day! Mine got processed today, after running around realising I had the wrong email address, then the process had changed from last year and a bunch of manual stuff was required… I’m in nowhere near the same situation as you but somehow throughout all my schooling years I’ve ended up needing all sorts of exemptions and it’s taught me a lot about patience when dealing with bureaucracy.
I’m glad the wheels are turning in your favour!
Oh, that’s great news. Congrats KJ!
In a way, I’m kind of glad for some of the bureaucracy I’ve had to deal with. It would be a lot more difficult to navigate the byzantine systems every organisation even remotely involved with the government seems to be obsessed with if I didn’t have years of experience already!
(New resumé skill? 👀)
In all seriousness, that is a resume skill! (Process oriented, attention to detail, familiarity with complex multi-stakeholder systems etc)
I currently have jobs that are very heavy on bureaucracy (one in the org itself, the other due to client requirements) and being used to working with it and learning how they think has been a real boon. It makes some parts of the job a lot less stressful than they would be otherwise and also makes me more likely to pick up stuff that others won’t