part-time job

Posted May 25th, 2010

Not a great start to the day. It’s only just gone 10am and already I am one meeting and one job behind. Think it’s going to be an expensive day on the Dublinbikes (relatively speaking) given that I have one currently parked in my office.

In 20 minutes I have to go in to the Mansion House for a meeting on human trafficking.

That will run until just after 12.30 when I intend to go in to Civic Offices to follow up on a query – what I was meant to be doing instead of typing this. Because of the Union work to rule, parking enforcement won’t answer my calls or emails so let’s hope they’ll talk to me in person.

That should get me through until 2pm when I have a meeting with ESB to talk about electric car clubs. They requested it so I’m hoping they have some good news.

Then it’s back to the office for an appointment at 3.30pm.

That shouldn’t take longer than an hour, leaving me with an hour and a half or so of correspondence before I have to go canvassing at 6pm.

When that finishes I have to cycle to Rathgar for a Fine Gael meeting at 8pm-ish.

And when that finishes I have an appointment with someone in town to get a bit of advice and see if they’re interested in helping out from time to time (which would be great).

It’s a bit of a joke really. I finished after 10pm last night and it will be even later again today. Being a Councillor is meant to be a part time job. I’m meant to have another job on top of this (and another salary). Who are they kidding?!

And we wonder why there is such a dearth of talent in Irish politics. We’re not structuring our systems correctly; we’re spreading our resources too thinly.