This week my old boss left the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked what his advice would be to young starters who just joined the org, his answer was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Be nice to people, and walk towards the gunfire.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I am still thinking about this. Not because I am not nice to people, on the contrary, but because I know I am consciously staying away from where the rub is, hiding behind my work, my job, my duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Being an “environmentalist”* in Australia makes you fair game in the eyes of many. When I came out here twenty years ago, I soon spiralled into depression and withdrawal because I could no longer speak my mind, as I would get shouted down. (*and the feeling of being a guest on this country kept me from fighting back.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But now, two decades on, it is probably time to crawl out of that hole and find the smoke stack I need to chain myself on to…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll come back to this one…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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(*I should probs add here that back then I did not even know I am<\/em> one\u2026 talking about nature, recycling or saving water was just a normal thing where I came from\u2026 but here it was met with deep suspicion and quite advanced closed-mindedness, was told that I am ‘one of them<\/em>‘, that I want to take away people’s lives or standards and that I’m woke and not realistic and other bullshit…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week my old boss left the organisation. When asked what his advice would be to young starters who just joined the org, his answer was: “Be nice to people, and walk towards the gunfire.” I am still thinking about this. Not because I am not nice to people, on the contrary, but because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-stuff-that-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}